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• Walsall 0-0 Shrewsbury Town

  02-10-2018 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Walsall and Shrewsbury share the spoils as a feisty, entertaining derby ends in a 0-0 draw.
  
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• Theresa May to promise a better life after Brexit as she insists: 'Our best days lie ahead'

  02-10-2018 23:30
  
  The Prime Minister will say the UK has 'everything we need to succeed' after we leave the EU
  
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• Brentford 1-1 Birmingham: Blues draw eighth game of campaign

  02-10-2018 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Birmingham City hold on with 10 men to earn a point at Brentford for an eighth draw in 11 league games.
  
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• Woman who attacked museum painting with meat cleaver to be commemorated in Birmingham

  02-10-2018 18:25
  
  The attack in 1914 was part of a militant campaign across Birmingham to secure votes for women        
  
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• Riki Wessels: Worcestershire sign Notts batsman on three-year deal

  02-10-2018 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Relegated Worcestershire sign batsman Riki Wessels from Nottinghamshire on a three-year deal.
  
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• Boris Johnson describes misery of 'terrible' council housing in Wolverhampton

  02-10-2018 15:51
  
  Top Tory Boris Johnson says experience in Wolverhampton convinced him tenants should be allowed to buy their own homes
  
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• Boris Johnson wows Conservative conference in Birmingham with leadership pitch

  02-10-2018 15:22
  Former Foreign Secretary urges party to 'chuck Chequers' as he rubbishes Theresa May's Brexit plan
  
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• Unexpected surge in the number of Solihull children taken into care

  02-10-2018 14:44
  
  More than 400 youngsters are now being looked after in the borough
  
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• Bakary Sako: West Bromwich Albion sign former Crystal Palace forward

  02-10-2018 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  West Bromwich Albion sign ex-Crystal Palace and Wolverhampton Wanderers forward Bakary Sako on a deal to the end of the season.
  
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• Watch: Mayor tests out driverless car on Birmingham's Broad Street

  02-10-2018 14:12
  
   It has a range of about 80 km, and a top speed of 15/16 mph
  
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• National Portrait Gallery unveils Malala Yousafzai picture

  02-10-2018 14:07
  Nobel prize winner says she hopes portrait will remind people of girls’ fight for changeMalala Yousafzai has expressed hope that a new portrait of her unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery will remind visitors that girls across the world are fighting for change.The gallery on Tuesday revealed one of two portraits of Yousafzai, an activist for girls’ education and the youngest Nobel prize winner. One has gone on display in London, while the other will travel in 2020 to Yousafzai&r
  
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• Home Secretary Sajid Javid launches crackdown on 'appalling crime' of forced marriage

  02-10-2018 13:48
  The West Midlands has the highest rate of forced marriages involving Pakistan
  
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• Birmingham Energy Institute joins Worldwide Energy University Network

  02-10-2018 13:44
  University of Birmingham energy experts have joined counterparts from around the world as founder members of a new research network aiming to help solve global energy problems.
  
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• Mylee Billingham: father jailed for life for murdering daughter

  02-10-2018 13:36
  William Billingham convicted at Birmingham crown court of killing eight-year-old William Billingham has been jailed for life with a minimum of 27 years for the murder of his eight-year-old daughter, Mylee.Billingham, who will be 82 before his release from prison can be considered by the parole board, stared at the floor and shook his head as he was sentenced at Birmingham crown court on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• University of Birmingham Dubai tackles big ideas and future of work

  02-10-2018 13:34
  Leading voices from education, finance and world affairs joined the University of Birmingham Dubai to close its inaugural welcome week with a discussion on the future of employment in the emirate.
  
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• Birmingham's Lab 11 nightclub to remain open after teenage drug death

  02-10-2018 12:59
  
  The club, in Digbeth, has now introduced drug detection dogs
  
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• Why Brexit will mean more jobs for British workers

  02-10-2018 12:26
  Mayor Andy Street backs the Government's plan to restrict low-skilled migrants and says the West Midlands will have to train British workers
  
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• Three men stabbed in Birmingham city centre following 'disorder' - Sky News

  02-10-2018 09:00
  Three men stabbed in Birmingham city centre following 'disorder'  Sky NewsThe victims have been taken to hospital, one seriously injured and the others described as having "less serious" injuries.
  
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• The Prodigy announce UK tour - and it's coming to Birmingham. See how to get tickets - Birmingham Live

  02-10-2018 09:00
  The Prodigy announce UK tour - and it's coming to Birmingham. See how to get tickets  Birmingham LiveThey're bringing the European tour to Birmingham this November.
  
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• Police shoot man in dawn raid on Birmingham house - The Guardian

  02-10-2018 09:00
  Police shoot man in dawn raid on Birmingham house  The GuardianMan sustains arm injury as six people are arrested on suspicion of firearms offences.
  
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• Coroner not required to investigate identities of Birmingham bombers - UK Human Rights Blog

  02-10-2018 09:00
  Coroner not required to investigate identities of Birmingham bombers  UK Human Rights BlogEmergency *service* personnel in the aftermath of the Birmingham bombings, November 1974 (Credit, The Guardian). Coroner for the Birmingham Inquests v ...
  
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• Birmingham stabbing: Three men stabbed on Birmingham High Street – police cordon - Express

  02-10-2018 09:00
  Birmingham stabbing: Three men stabbed on Birmingham High Street – police cordon  ExpressPOLICE have rushed to Birmingham city centre after initial reports of a stabbing in which there were three people were stabbed.
  
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