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• Residents moved from West Bromwich fire hazard block

  21-07-2017 17:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Eighty people have had to find new homes after the building's fire alarm was found to be not working.
  
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• Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to head up historic Lunar Society and wants more women to join

  21-07-2017 17:29
  
  Former Redditch MP takes on top role with the historic debating society which was founded by the giants of Birmingham's industrial revolution
  
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• Ceiling collapse at Birmingham primary school prom

  21-07-2017 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Six people had to be treated when a suspended ceiling fell during a school prom at a banqueting suite.
  
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• Man abandoned as a baby in 1950s meets long-lost brothers

  21-07-2017 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  A man who was abandoned as a baby in a cinema toilet in the 1950s has met his long-lost brothers in Scotland.
  
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• Willenhall Academy: Teacher snapped 'asleep' at school

  21-07-2017 15:34 via bbc.co.uk
  The agency worker was pictured with her head on a desk in an image shared on social media.
  
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• The Black Country flag row shows Britain is still blind to its colonial past | Matthew Stallard

  21-07-2017 14:51
  Local MP Eleanor Smith raised concerns over the emblem – and caused outrage. But the region’s connection to slavery cannot be ignored• Matthew Stallard is a historian of class and race at the University of ManchesterThe recently designed flag of the Black Country achieved its most prominent national coverage yet on Wednesday at prime minister’s questions when Theresa May came to its defence following the newly elected MP for Wolverhampton South West’s expression of &
  
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• Hate crime is on rise, so why are there so many false reports too

  21-07-2017 13:57
  
  Rise in anti-Muslim hate crime is becoming clouded by false reports and rumours warns charity
  
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• Britain First's Jayda Fransen Gets Chased Out Of Birmingham - HuffPost UK

  21-07-2017 12:03
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  Britain First's Jayda Fransen Gets Chased Out Of Birmingham
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  Britain First's Deputy Leader has been filmed losing her cool whilst being chased out of Birmingham after confronting the holders of a Muslim bookstall. Jayda Fransen spent a number of hours in a heated confrontation near the Bullring on 13 July, which ...and more »
  
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• Professor of African history elected to the British Academy

  21-07-2017 10:49
  Professor Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham has been named among sixty-six of the world's leading minds elected as Fellows of the British Academy yesterday, Thursday 20 July.
  
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