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• Walsall 0-1 Fleetwood Town

  14-03-2017 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cian Bolger's first-half goal gives promotion-chasing Fleetwood victory at Walsall in League One.
  
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• Brentford 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers

  14-03-2017 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wolves score twice in the last 10 minutes as they beat Brentford and move four points clear of the Championship drop-zone.
  
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• Bake A Cake wedding fraudster jailed for three years

  14-03-2017 19:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trading standards investigators say some brides were forced to cancel their big day.
  
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• Lauren Jeska jailed for Alexander Stadium stabbings

  14-03-2017 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lauren Jeska, a transgender runner, attacked a UK Athletics worker in a hormone samples row.
  
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• Parking in Birmingham is about to get more expensive - here are the details

  14-03-2017 17:36
  
  Price rises for Colmore Row, Jewellery Quarter and other parts of city centre
  
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• Plans to cut Birmingham school budgets by £20 million could get even worse if Conservative MPs have their way

  14-03-2017 16:05
  
  Planned cuts to Birmingham schools are designed to make funding fairer for other parts of the country, but some Tory MPs are pushing for more.
  
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• Research security partnerships connect UK, India and Australia

  14-03-2017 15:56
  Academic experts from the UK, India and Australia researching key global and regional security issues gathered in New Delhi to forge new research partnerships.
  
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• University of Birmingham study finds new class of androgens play key role in polycystic ovary syndrome

  14-03-2017 15:55
  Scientists led by the University of Birmingham have discovered that a new class of male sex hormones known as androgens plays a key role in the development of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
  
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• Video: New drone footage of Paradise development

  14-03-2017 15:24
  
  Footage also shows how phase two of £500 million project will fit into the wider masterplan
  
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• University celebrates research partnerships with first-ever Brazil Week

  14-03-2017 14:53
  The University of Birmingham is celebrating its extensive research partnerships with top universities across Brazil with a week of exciting Brazilian-themed events.
  
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• Birmingham ranks as leading English city outside London for quality of life

  14-03-2017 11:50
  Birmingham retains its position in Mercer’s global Quality of Living Index
  City ranks as leading UK destination outside London in new ‘City Infrastructure’ ranking
  Birmingham has been ranked as having the highest quality of life of any English city outside of the capital, by the global Mercer Quality of Living Report 2017.
  Released today (Tuesday 14 March), the survey places Birmingham jointly with Glasgow in 53rd out of 231 global destinations. The city is placed ahead of int
  
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• Commonwealth Day

  14-03-2017 11:31
  L-R: Wade Lyn – Honorary Consul to Jamaica, Tarang Shelat – Hindu Council of Birmingham, Muhammad Zulqar Nain – Assistant High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dr Bhogal – Sikh community, Dr Aman Puri – Consul– General to India, Keith Stokes-Smith – Chairman of Birmingham Commonwealth Association and Lord Mayor of Birmingham Cllr Carl Rice
  The Lord Mayor of Birmingham started this year’s Commonwealth Day events yesterday morning by raising the Commonwea
  
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• How the weather can leave your Cheltenham Festival tips under a cloud

  14-03-2017 10:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why those looking for a Cheltenham winner should check the weather first.
  
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• £350 million Birmingham Peddimore to create 10,000 jobs

  14-03-2017 10:13
  Exciting news: £350 million Birmingham Peddimore to create 10,000 jobs https://t.co/gk5zeoxUFu #MIPIM2017 pic.twitter.com/7APCzPlOrT
  — LeaderofBirmingham (@BrumLeader) March 14, 2017
  Peddimore will be an exemplary industrial development in the West Midlands, creating up to 10,000 new jobs and contributing £350 million to the local economy
  A Visioning Document will kick-start the development of the 71ha employment site, which will deliver over 265,000 sqm of new industrial floo
  
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• Lib-Dem mayoral candidate mistakenly billed as Labour hopeful

  14-03-2017 09:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The candidate was "sure local volunteers were as shocked as them when the mistake was pointed out".
  
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• Andy Murray & Dan Evans beaten in doubles at Indian Wells

  14-03-2017 09:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jamie Murray is the last British player left in the BNP Paribas Open after brother Andy Murray and Dan Evans are knocked out of the doubles.
  
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• The making of Planet Earth II comes to the University of Birmingham

  14-03-2017 08:15
  The BBC's hugely popular wildlife series Planet Earth II is coming to the University of Birmingham, as part of the 2017 Royal Television Society Baird Lecture: The Making of a Natural History 'Blockbuster'.
  
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• Scientists at Birmingham use trees to help unpick secrets held in archaeological sites

  14-03-2017 07:00
  Researchers at the University of Birmingham will discuss the archaeology of trees, including how a burial date of an Iron Age princess was discovered thanks to tree rings.
  
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• 10,000 jobs to be created at Peddimore industrial site

  14-03-2017 07:00
  
  The city's next major development site to be marketed at MIPIM property conference in Cannes this week
  
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• £5m backing to create new Birmingham Dance Hub

  14-03-2017 06:00
  
  Arts Council England throws support behind three-year project to create new dance academy and performance space in the city centre
  
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• Swinfen Hall prison cell windows have 'no glass'

  14-03-2017 01:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New prisoners at Swinfen Hall did not feel safe on their first night in prison, the report said.
  
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• Why a Birmingham woman donated her hair to charity

  14-03-2017 01:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why a woman who donated her hair to charity wanted to hide the kind deed.
  
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• Birmingham voted a better place to live than Rome, LA and Dubai

  14-03-2017 01:01
  
  City again ranks well in annual survey of quality of life, placing higher than renowned cities such as Miami and Budapest
  
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