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• Crowds expected for Jeremy Corbyn Labour leadership rally in Birmingham city centre

  16-09-2016 23:00
  
  Labour leader will outline plans for £48 billion investment in West Midlands housing, transport and jobs
  
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• Crowds expected for Jeremey Corbyn Labour leadership rally in Birmingham city centre

  16-09-2016 23:00
  
  Labour leader will outline plans for £48 billion investment in West Midlands housing, transport and jobs
  
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• Diane James becomes UKIP leader

  16-09-2016 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP MEP Diane James wins party leadership contest to succeed Nigel Farage and tells PM Theresa May to "get on" with Brexit.
  
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• Two hurt as train derailed in flood landslide near Watford Junction

  16-09-2016 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two people are injured as a train derails near Watford Junction in a landslide caused by heavy rain.
  
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• Green light for University Collaborative Teaching Laboratory

  16-09-2016 18:29
  The University of Birmingham has, this week, received planning permission to build a brand new laboratory facility and teaching space, as part of a series of exciting regeneration developments taking place on campus.
  
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• Undercover bike cops launch 'best ever' cycle safety scheme in Birmingham

  16-09-2016 17:20
  
  Campaigners hope the operation, that sees plain clothes police on bikes pull over drivers that pass too close, will be taken up across the countryWhen Mark Hodson gets on his bike in the morning, like many cyclists in the UK, he has come to expect a few close calls. Perhaps drivers will whizz past him too close, or someone will even try a ‘punishment pass’.Luckily, Hodson is a West Midlands Police traffic officer, albeit in plain clothes, and just yards up the road a colleague in a p
  
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• Jailed ex-club boss Stuart Reid ordered to repay £1.3m

  16-09-2016 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A former nightclub boss jailed for plotting to break a drug baron out of custody is ordered to pay back more than £1.3m in criminal gains.
  
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• Staffordshire University threatens to axe more than 80 jobs

  16-09-2016 15:49
  
  New academic structure will be implemented at university to create six schools which ‘reflect its most successful and relevant subjects'
  
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• Ipswich Town v Aston Villa

  16-09-2016 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's Championship game between Ipswich Town and Aston Villa.
  
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• Newcastle United v Wolverhampton Wanderers

  16-09-2016 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's Championship game between Newcastle United and Wolves.
  
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• West Midlands Police target drivers too close to cyclists

  16-09-2016 14:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police officers are getting on bikes to spot motorists who drive too close to cyclists while overtaking.
  
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• Ritchie De Laet: Aston Villa defender ruled out after sustaining serious knee injury

  16-09-2016 14:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aston Villa defender Ritchie De Laet could face a lengthy spell out with a serious knee injury says boss Roberto Di Matteo.
  
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• Turning Brum’s empty houses and land banked sites into homes

  16-09-2016 13:15
  Cllr Peter Griffiths – cabinet member for Housing and Homes
  Cabinet will be asked to follow up on Birmingham’s success in bringing empty properties back into use by buying up privately owned vacant sites to build new houses on – including sites that have been land banked by private individuals and developers.
  At the meeting on 20 September, Cabinet will also be asked to speed up the process through the delegation of decisions to the cabinet member and strategic director.
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• The Final Book on the Shelf

  16-09-2016 13:00
  The task of moving over 62km of books and journals from the old Library to the University's new facility is now complete.
  
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• Sex offender Tony Comerford jailed for stabbing girl

  16-09-2016 12:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is jailed for 30 years for repeatedly stabbing a girl in her neck and chest and several sexual assaults.
  
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• One-Day Cup Final: Warwickshire's Ian Bell and Surrey's Gareth Batty ready for Lord's

  16-09-2016 12:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Warwickshire captain Ian Bell and Surrey counterpart Gareth Batty bring plenty of experience to Saturday's One-Day Cup final.
  
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• Seat reveals a 'feminine' car for women drivers

  16-09-2016 12:08
  
  The 'easy to park' car has eyeliner-shaped headlights and will be launched next year.
  
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• Birmingham bidding for Olympic stars return

  16-09-2016 12:02
  Cllr Ian Ward,
  Fresh from their successes at the Olympic Games in Rio, American and Jamaican athletes could be heading back to Birmingham to prepare for the IAAF World Championships London 2017.
  Birmingham City Council has spoken to USA Track and Field about bringing their Olympic stars here to train at Alexander Stadium, while the University of Birmingham are in discussions with Team Jamaica about basing their training camp at its Edgbaston campus.
  Both teams have confirmed they wish to return
  
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• U18s at Birmingham - TWTD.co.uk

  16-09-2016 11:52
  
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  U18s at Birmingham
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  Town's U18s are in action against Birmingham City at their Wast Hills training ground on Saturday morning (KO 11am). TweetFacebookLinkedInEmailShareThis. Alan Lee's side, who won their first three games before falling to a 3-0 home defeat to ...
  
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• Former Tramps nightclub to become exclusive 37-storey Broad Street apartment block

  16-09-2016 10:42
  
  Developers confirm plans for major apartment block on the site of Tramps nightclub which will house more than 400 flats and a running track
  
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• Communities sent for £2 million funding boost

  16-09-2016 10:39
  Birmingham communities are set for a funding boost with the launch of a £2 million initiative to support innovative projects across the city.
  And community groups, individuals and their ward councillors are being challenged to come up with ways of ‘doing things differently in neighbourhoods’ –  testing out new ways of doing things and getting away from the idea that the council can do everything.
  The newly-formed Cabinet Committee for Local Leadership will meet on 20
  
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• Oh Yes: Churchill Insurance backs new Young Active Travel Trust

  16-09-2016 10:15
  Birmingham City Council has launched a new charitable trust designed to support improvements to the ways in which children travel in the city with Churchill Insurance being announced as the first major contributor.
  The Young Active Travel Charitable Trust will build on work already carried out by the council to make it safer, easier and more pleasant to walk or cycle to school.
  To get things up and running, the council is providing an initial start-up endowment of £75,000 and this has been
  
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• Green light for University of Birmingham's latest 'striking' development

  16-09-2016 06:00
  
  City planners back new teaching block on Edgbaston campus which will bring science and engineering teaching under one roof
  
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• New UKIP leader to succeed Nigel Farage to be revealed

  16-09-2016 03:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP will announce its new leader to succeed Nigel Farage at the party's conference in Bournemouth later.
  
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• The Chinese Way: West Midlands football following the Far East invasion

  16-09-2016 00:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In the wake of West Brom's takeover, BBC Sport asks how the West Midlands' big four clubs all ended up in Chinese hands.
  
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