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• Solihull millionaire: 'Golf star Lee Westwood saved me from drowning on a Caribbean beach'

  20-01-2015 22:00
  
  Colin Davies tells how golfing champ, Lee Westwood, rescued him from Atlantic Ocean during his trip to Barbados
  
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• Solihull millionaire: 'Golf star Lee Westwood saved me from drowning on a ... - Birmingham Mail

  20-01-2015 21:57 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Solihull millionaire: 'Golf star Lee Westwood saved me from drowning on a ...
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  A Midland pensioner has told how his life has been saved on the paradise island of Barbados – by golfing great Lee Westwood. Colin Davies, from Solihull, said the sporting star raced into the Atlantic Ocean when he spotted him flailing for help ...
  Westwood's haul in one! Ryder Cup star rescues drowning British businessman ...Daily Mail
  
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• Football: Brackley lose to play-off chasing Solihull; Corby go top; plus full ... - Northampton Herald and Post

  20-01-2015 14:44 via northampton-news-hp.co.uk
  Football: Brackley lose to play-off chasing Solihull; Corby go top; plus full ...
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  Brackley Town fell to a 1-0 defeat at play-off chasing Solihull Moors which leaves them 13th in the Conference North. Omar Bogle settled the clash for Moors in the second half. In the Southern Premier Division, Corby Town are on top of the pile after ...
  
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• Look: Spectacular photographs from award-winning Solihull amateur ... - Coventry Telegraph

  20-01-2015 13:06 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  “I moved from Bournemouth to Solihull with work and part of that was because the Midlands is so much better for hill-walking than the South. “I love the Clent Hills, Cannock Chase has some great woodland and vistas and I'm keen to explore more of the ...
  
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• Battle over FGM is stepping up - Solihull Observer

  20-01-2015 11:38 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Battle over FGM is stepping up
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• Solihull campaigner Riya Dandekar loses battle with cancer - Solihull Observer

  20-01-2015 09:45 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Solihull campaigner Riya Dandekar loses battle with cancer
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  The Solihull student made fresh calls from her hospice bed for more stem cell donors in a selfless bid to save others. Earlier this year, she inspired a huge increase in the number of Asian people joining the Anthony Nolan charity's bone marrow register.
  
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• Solihull starlet on X factor - Solihull Observer

  20-01-2015 09:00 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  SOLIHULL'S sweetheart Lucy Martin made a guest appearance on the hit TV show The X Factor last weekend. The 23-year-old from Knowle featured as a dancer with Olly Murs for his performance of his saucy new single 'Wrapped Up'. The former head ...
  
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• Three arrested in Birmingham gun sale probe

  20-01-2015 00:00
  Three men remain in police custody this afternoon (Tuesday 20 January) as detectives probe illegal gun sales in Birmingham.
  
  Three men aged 31, 32 and 33 were arrested this morning in a series of co-ordinated dawn raids across Birmingham by West Midlands Police Serious and Organised Crime Unit. 
  
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• Pair who fractured elderly woman's jaw in Tipton house robbery jailed

  20-01-2015 00:00
  A pair of dangerous robbers have been jailed for a total of nearly a quarter of a century. 
  
  Donovan Wilson, aged 19, of Coventry Court, Stafford and Aston Davis, aged 21, of no fixed abode, both pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday (14 January) to two robberies on 7 August 2014. 
  
  Wilson also admitted two additional offences: a street robbery in Wolverhampton in 2013 and taking a vehicle from the Tipton robbery which was later involved in a collision. 
  
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• Drink drive suspect in court after police officer assaulted

  20-01-2015 00:00
  A Dudley man is due in court this morning, accused of drink driving and assaulting a police officer whilst resisting arrest.
  
  Unemployed Aaron Anslow was detained on Sunday night (18 January) after police were called to reports of a Mercedes Vito van driving on the wrong side of Halesowen Road, Netherton.
  
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• CCTV appeal to trace man who threatened woman in public toilets

  20-01-2015 00:00
  Police in Birmingham have released a CCTV image of a man using a walking stick, who they want to trace after he threatened a woman with a knife.
  
  The woman, aged 62,  was approached and threatened while she was in public  toilets in a Birmingham shopping centre.
  
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• Break-ins fall to all-time low as police keep up pressure on burglars

  20-01-2015 00:00
  Burglary has fallen to an all-time low across the West Midlands as the force tightens its grip on known offenders and protects households in crime ‘hot-spot’ areas. 
  
  Latest figures show the number of burglaries down by almost 10 per cent since last April compared to the same period 12 months ago with 942 fewer households experiencing the distress of a break-in. 
  
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• Bloxwich man charged for weapons possession

  20-01-2015 00:00
  A 63-year-old man was last night (Monday) charged with possession of a firearm without a licence after police went to an address in Sneyd Lane, Mossley in Bloxwich on Saturday night (17 January).
  
  Gregory Rennison, from Sneyd Lane, has been remanded in custody to appear before Walsall Magistrates Court today (Tuesday 20 January).
   
  
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