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• Walsall brothers sold stolen car parts in £500k 'industrial scale' scam

  10-02-2015 14:32
  
  Hamza and Eizam Riasat jailed after police recovered parts from 36 cars after raiding Bloxwich lock-up
  
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• Solihull and Yardley Maisonettes up for sale

  10-02-2015 13:00
  
  Three of a kind: Maisonettes for sale in Solihull and Yardley
  
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• Shoppers set for spooky surprise from Addams family - Solihull Observer

  10-02-2015 11:20 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Shoppers set for spooky surprise from Addams family
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  Buy photos » Spooky goings-on - from l to r, Sophia Bailey (Wednesday Addams), Jonathan Busk (Gomez Addams), Penny Simpkins (Morticia Addams), Dan Peet (Uncle Fester) and Sam Cox (Pugsley Addams). (s). SHOPPERS in Solihull are in for a spooky ...
  
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• Legal & General swoops for Solihull mortgage group - Insider Media

  10-02-2015 09:22 via insidermedia.com
  
  Legal & General swoops for Solihull mortgage group
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  Insurance giant Legal & General has acquired Solihull lifetime mortgage business Newlife Home Finance for £5m. The deal is subject to approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and is expected to complete in the first quarter of 2015.
  
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• West Midlands Police join national safer internet day

  10-02-2015 00:00
  West Midlands Police is playing its part in the national Safer Internet Day today (10th February) which sees organisations across the UK working together to promote internet safety. 
  
  WMP will be posting a series of messages via our various social media platforms looking at keeping young people safe on the internet.
   
  
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• Suspected £13-million brothel targeted in police raid

  10-02-2015 00:00
  Seven people were arrested during an early hours raid this morning (Feb 10) on a suspected brothel police believe could be a front for a £13-million money laundering enterprise. 
  
  Up to 50 officers were involved in the 5am sting on Birmingham’s Libra Club in Summerhill Road following months of surveillance by officers. 
  
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• Police probe launched after jewels stolen in house raid

  10-02-2015 00:00
  Police have released images of a group they want to speak to following a burglary in Netherton.
  
  Jewellery and cash were taken from a property on Prince Street which happened during the afternoon of 17 January.  The suspects ran off when the home-owner returned.
  
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• Police in Northamptonshire urge missing Daventry man to contact them

  10-02-2015 00:00
  Police in Northamptonshire are urging a 45-year-old man who has gone missing to contact them.
  
  Colin Vernon, from Daventry, was last seen in Birmingham on Monday morning (9 February) and it is believed he may still be in the Birmingham area.
  
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• Former teacher and youth club leader convicted after WMP enquiry into historic sex abuse

  10-02-2015 00:00
  A former PE teacher from Birmingham has been found guilty of sexually abusing children at a school he taught at over 40 years ago.
  
  Marcus Marcussen, now aged 91, from Tenbury Wells, was found guilty of 25 counts of sexual assault at Birmingham Crown Court today, (Tuesday 10 February) in respect of the historic offences and will be sentenced on Friday 13 February.
  
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• Brothers behind bars after police rumble car theft racket on “industrial scale”

  10-02-2015 00:00
  Two Black Country brothers caught by West Midlands Police with parts cut from more than £500,000 worth of stolen cars have both been jailed for five years.
  
  Hamza (pic left) and Eizam Riasat, from Walstead Road in Walsall, took luxury cars from driveways across the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Derbyshire in a theft racket described as being on an “industrial scale”. They were rumbled when detectives followed a tracker signal from a device built into one of the stolen cars which led th
  
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• Appeal to trace man seen with missing Walsall woman

  10-02-2015 00:00
  Images of a man police would like to speak to have been issued in an urgent appeal for information to help trace a pregnant Walsall woman.
  
  Christina Chandler, 21, who is believed to be around 18 weeks pregnant, had been staying with a member of her family but has not been seen since Thursday 5 February. She was reported missing to police on Sunday 8 February by worried relatives and an investigation was launched.
  
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