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• The Vamps could end Ed Sheeran's stranglehold on UK Album Chart - Birmingham Mail

  17-07-2017 19:04
  
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  The Vamps could end Ed Sheeran's stranglehold on UK Album Chart
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• The Vamps could end Ed Sheeran's stranglehold on UK Album ... - Birmingham Mail

  17-07-2017 19:04
  
  Birmingham Mail
  The Vamps could end Ed Sheeran's stranglehold on UK Album ...
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  The foursome - Brad Simpson, Connor Ball, Tristan Evans and James McVey - are surging ahead of Sheeran.and more »
  
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• Daniel Baird: Family tribute to man stabbed outside pub

  17-07-2017 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of Daniel Baird describe him as "kind, caring and fun" as they appeal for information.
  
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• James Wilson: Walsall sign Sheffield United defender on season-long loan

  17-07-2017 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Walsall sign central defender James Wilson on a season-long loan from Sheffield United.
  
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• MP Eleanor Smith denies calling Black Country flag racist

  17-07-2017 17:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eleanor Smith has concerns over the Black Country flag's chain image, but denies calling for a ban.
  
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• Ahmed Hegazi: West Brom sign Egypt defender on loan

  17-07-2017 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Brom sign Egypt central defender Ahmed Hegazi on a season-long loan with an option to make the deal permanent.
  
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• Couple marry in first British Antarctic Territory ceremony

  17-07-2017 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tom Sylvester and Julie Baum were lawfully married at the Rothera Research Station.
  
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• Library of Birmingham immortalised on a stamp

  17-07-2017 16:59
  
  Birmingham's iconic library among ten buildings to appear on new stamps issued by Royal Mail
  
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• Birmingham confirms new scholarships for British education in Asia

  17-07-2017 16:51
  The University of Birmingham joins eleven leading universities in the UK to partner with Aviva on a new international scholarship programme to promote British education in Asia. New funds have been made available to assist outstanding students in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam to further their studies at leading UK universities.
  
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• Two Birmingham Legs 11 venues have licenses withdrawn after slavery raid

  17-07-2017 16:19
  
  Licences for the companies venues in Broad Street and Chinatown revoked by city councillors following police raid
  
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• Special pen helps blind students to draw in Birmingham

  17-07-2017 15:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A special pen brings to life the artwork of students who cannot see what they have created.
  
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• Surgeons remove 27 contact lenses from woman's eye

  17-07-2017 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "A bluish foreign body" turned out to be a "hard mass" of 17 lenses stuck together with mucus.
  
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• London Midland wins franchise extension on key Birmingham route

  17-07-2017 13:45
  
  Rail operator will continue running busy commuter service across the city after government misses deadline to award new franchise
  
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• More than 7,000 treated for mental illnesses linked to drug use in the West Midlands

  17-07-2017 12:26
  
  As the Government announces a crackdown on drugs, official figures show the impact drug use can have on mental health
  
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• HS2 reveals winners of building contracts

  17-07-2017 10:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Contracts worth £6.6bn are awarded ahead of news on the final HS2 routes to Leeds and Manchester.
  
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• Parliament needs to leave London and reconnect with the people | Simon Jenkins

  17-07-2017 08:00
  
  MPs know they have to leave the crumbling Palace of Westminster. Where better to go during the restoration than the provinces they have neglected for so long?• Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist‘Ye are a factious crew and enemies to all good government … lock up the doors. In the name of God, go.” As MPs retreat this week from a tempestuous session of parliament, Oliver Cromwell’s expulsion of their predecessors in 1653 is about to haunt them.An urgent decis
  
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• UK 'would need a new city the size of Birmingham every two years for migrants' if we go for 'soft' Brexit - The Sun

  17-07-2017 02:36
  
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  UK 'would need a new city the size of Birmingham every two years for migrants' if we go for 'soft' Brexit
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  Net immigration would continue to exceed 100,000 a year for at least a decade if Britain goes for a “soft” Brexit, a report warns today. Two reports released by the Migration Watch think tank said a “soft” Brexit being pushed by Remainers would mean ...and more »
  
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