Diego Maradona in sensational bid to become Aston Villa manager

WORLD superstar Diego Maradona has made a sensational bid to become the next manager of Aston Villa.Read

Merdien gypsy battle campaigners ready to take fight to Europe CAMPAIGNERS battling to stop gypsies building a caravan site in a pretty Midland village are taking their fight to the European Court of Human Rights.more
Melissa Johnson: I was a WAG before I became Blues' Roger Johnson's wife GLAMOROUS Melissa Johnson was destined to be a WAG even before marrying Birmingham City star Roger Johnson.more

New pictures of stalker of Crimewatch star Toneeta Beckford

THESE are the saucy snaps that crazed Midland stalker Toneeta Beckford sent to Crimewatch TV star Rav Wilding before her arrest.Read

Former Wolverhampton fraudster Gill Hope targets Dubai company A GLOBETROTTING Midland fraudster has turned up in super-rich Dubai, trying to talk a British company into her schemes.more

Bogus West Brom osteopath opens new clinics - and they are legal

A SELF-STYLED back pain specialist banned by the General Osteopathic Council and fined for falsely claiming he was registered has reopened his business.Read

Relive days of chocolate concrete and pink custard!

LESS talking and more eating, bellowed Mrs Greene, my old school dinner lady.Read

£1m Birmingham fraudster meets Queen and Gordon Ramsay

THE Queen shakes the hand of a convicted fraudster – and congratulates him on being a champion entrepreneur.Read

Former Sunday Mercury man Amardeep Bassey remembers time being held in Pakistan cell accused of being a spy

Former Sunday Mercury Investigations Editor AMARDEEP BASSEY was accused of being a spy and thrown in a stinking cell when he visited Pakistan in 2002. He returned to the place where he nearly lost his life for a TV documentary to be screened this week.Read

Who died in mansion of Shropshire tycoon?

AS forensic experts continued to pick through the debris at the home of tycoon Christopher Foster last night questions remained about the whereabouts of the millionaire and his family.Read

10,000 wills frozen in Midlands solicitors probe

A MIDLAND firm has been banned from managing people’s wills – but is still offering these services at excessive prices.Read

I have stolen £4m from Birmingham University

A wealthy businessman has told how he stole £4 million from Birmingham University to fund a secret gambling addiction.Read

Care home boss is Miss Whiplash

By day she is the frumpy figure of care and comfort, the middle-aged manager of a leafy Midland retirement home.Read

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