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• The Streets announce 2019 UK tour including two Birmingham shows - Birmingham Live

  30-04-2018 20:58
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  The Streets announce 2019 UK tour including two Birmingham shows
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  The Streets have now announced more UK live dates for 2019. Birmingham's very own Mike Skinner released details of a nationwide UK tour for next year on Instagram. The tour - 'The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light Part Two' - takes its name from ...
  
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• The Streets announce 2019 UK tour including two Birmingham ... - Birmingham Live

  30-04-2018 20:58
  Birmingham Live
  The Streets announce 2019 UK tour including two Birmingham ...
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  Birmingham's very own Mike Skinner released details of a nationwide UK tour for next year on Instagram.and more »
  
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• Teens jailed over Moseley and Kings Heath car-jackings

  30-04-2018 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The boys, now 16 and 17, carried out attacks in the Moseley and Kings Heath areas of Birmingham.
  
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• New law could see thugs who harm dogs and horses jailed for five years

  30-04-2018 17:24
  
  Attacking a police dog is currently treated as criminal damage
  
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• County Championship: Nottinghamshire beat Worcestershire to go top of table

  30-04-2018 17:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Nottinghamshire beat Worcestershire by an innings and 41 runs to go top of County Championship Division One.
  
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• McDonald's is creating 1,000 new manager jobs across the UK ... - Birmingham Live

  30-04-2018 17:05
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  McDonald's is creating 1,000 new manager jobs across the UK ...
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  The US company said it needed more managers over the coming months.and more »
  
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• Solihull local elections: Tory pledge over 'all the things that people expect'

  30-04-2018 16:04
  
  Leader says he is taking 'nothing for granted" going into the elections
  
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• Measles outbreak in Birmingham sparks vaccination warnings to parents

  30-04-2018 15:56
  
  The outbreak, which originally focused in Birmingham and Solihull, has now become a West Midlands wide community issue with over 100 cases
  
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• Carluccio's launch bottomless brunches across UK - with a big twist ... - Birmingham Live

  30-04-2018 15:08
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  Carluccio's launch bottomless brunches across UK - with a big twist ...
  Birmingham Live
  If you fancy brunching with your pals late one morning, or during the afternoon, you now can - at your favourite Italian chain.and more »
  
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• Thousands of 'smart motorway' drivers on M6 may have been wrongly fined

  30-04-2018 14:29
  
  There are currently more than 20 sections of 'smart motorway' on seven different motorways
  
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• Car stuck at Lickey Hills golf course after 'wrong turn'

  30-04-2018 14:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The Ford KA was stuck in a ditch near the 11th hole and was later towed away.
  
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• New off-licence plan withdrawn in wake of drunken violence in Erdington

  30-04-2018 14:04
  
  It had sparked concerns due to the town's historic problems with street drinkers and anti-social behaviour
  
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• 'Better shopping choice and 40 new jobs' - Why Aldi 'remains convinced' Great Barr store plan should go ahead

  30-04-2018 12:55
  
  The plans to transform disused land in Old Horns Crescent is set to go before a Government Planning Inspectorate on May 1.
  
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• 'Better shopping choice and 40 new jobs' - Why Aldi ‘remains convinced’ Great Barr store plan should go ahead

  30-04-2018 12:55
  
  The plans to transform disused land in Old Horns Crescent is set to go before a Government Planning Inspectorate on May 1.
  
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• This is the massive pay cut Sajid Javid took to become an MP

  30-04-2018 11:56
  
  Javid was appointed by telephone by Prime Minister Theresa May the morning after Ms Rudd's departure
  
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• Higher aerobic fitness levels are associated with better word production skills in healthy older adults

  30-04-2018 11:46
  Healthy older people who exercise regularly are less inclined to struggle to find words to express themselves, research led by the University of Birmingham has discovered.
  
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• Sajid Javid replaces Amber Rudd as new Home Secretary

  30-04-2018 11:26
  
  Rudd became the fifth departure from the Cabinet since last year's snap general election
  
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• "Our police service will be massively reduced" - community reacts to station closure threat

  30-04-2018 06:30
  
  Hundreds sign petitions opposing the closure of the historic Acocks Green building
  
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• New sources prove a Frenchman was one of the translators of the King James Bible

  30-04-2018 01:24
  The King James Bible, first published in 1611, has been found to have been translated by a Frenchman – according to three sources newly discovered by a University of Birmingham researcher. New research has shed light on the translators who worked on the first edition, with King James commissioning a renowned French scholar, Isaac Casaubon, who was visiting London at the time, to work on the final revision of the translation.
  
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