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• Custodian REIT Buys Solihull Office Building For GBP2 Million - London South East

  29-01-2015 10:37 via lse.co.uk
  Custodian REIT Buys Solihull Office Building For GBP2 Million
  London South East
  "We are pleased to have secured this well-let office building in Solihull's town centre. The investment will provide a generous running yield and the comfort of a strong residual value, supported by the strength of the Solihull property market," said ...
  Custodian REIT confirms £1.98m property buyStock Market Wire
  
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• True Blue - Academy's importance continues to grow - Solihull Observer

  29-01-2015 01:12 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  True Blue - Academy's importance continues to grow
  Solihull Observer
  Blues' latest hot property, winger Demarai Gray, is a good example of a young player who seized their opportunity when offered it. Gray went from playing in front of one of a few hundred people in an FA Youth Cup game at Solihull Moors to playing in ...
  
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• Salon superheroes’ bravery award for tackling bag snatcher

  29-01-2015 00:00
  Staff at a Wolverhampton hairdressers cut short a bag snatcher’s getaway after teaming up to catch the thief - and have now received a police award for their bravery.
  
  Cruel Jason Hall barged over an 83-year-old woman and her 86-year-old husband, who is blind, in Bilston Street last January before running off with her handbag.
  
  But the 38-year-old hadn’t banked on Salon Superheroes John Hurley and teenage stylist Charlie Perry springing into action!
  
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• Motorist suffers head injury after being hit with a rake in road rage attack

  29-01-2015 00:00
  Police are urgently seeking the whereabouts of two men who assaulted a motorist after a road rage incident in Dudley yesterday morning (28 January).
  
  Two vehicles pulled up on Meadow Road just after 9am and a row erupted between the occupants. The driver of a red Transit van took a garden rake from his vehicle and hit the driver of a silver Vauxhall Vectra, leaving him with a deep laceration.
  
  A passenger from the Transit van then also set about the Vectra driver with a spade, while he continued
  
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• Lying cabbie passed speeding points to pal…a man deported from UK three years earlier!

  29-01-2015 00:00
  A cabbie has narrowly escaped prison for trying to palm off speeding points onto another driver − a man police discovered was not in the country at the time having been deported three years earlier! 
  
  Abid Manzoor, from Essendon Grove in Alum Rock, triggered three speed cameras within the space of six weeks whilst working for a private hire firm.
  
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• Gone in six seconds!

  29-01-2015 00:00
  A CCTV clip released today shows that it can take as little as six seconds for a car crook to break into a van.
  
  The video shows two men targeting a van, breaking in and stealing the contents, which could be thousands of pounds worth of tools.
  
  The CCTV has been released as part of a campaign to tackle a rise in theft from vans − particularly in Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Sandwell.
  
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• Coventry cops to offer rare insight into overnight policing

  29-01-2015 00:00
  We’re out and about with Coventry officers on Friday evening (30 January) to give LIVE updates into the work done overnight to keep the public safe.
  
  Join us here from 8pm to see: how we respond to mental health call-outs, what happens in the night shift briefing, the sniffer dogs looking for drugs in the city’s pubs and clubs and the kind of emergency calls we receive throughout the night.
  
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• CCTV clues to sexual assault at Dudley shopping centre

  29-01-2015 00:00
  CCTV images of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a teenager in a Dudley shopping centre have been released by police.
  
  The 18-year-old was in a public toilet block at Cornbow shopping centre in Halesowen on 21 November when a man in his late 40s approached him and touched him inappropriately. He challenged the offender who calmly walked out of the toilets and was last seen heading towards the bus station.
  
  Officers have been trawling CCTV and liaising with shopping centre staff in a bid to
  
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