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• Solihull: Couple saved by tea break when car crashes into dining room as they ... - Birmingham Mail

  14-03-2015 21:24 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  A retired couple owe their lives to a tea break – after a car ploughed into their dining room as they enjoyed a cuppa in their lounge. Bryan and Sandra Blundell left the room to brew up minutes before their neighbour's Ford Focus careered into their ...
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• Solihull: Couple saved by tea break when car crashes into dining room as they brew up

  14-03-2015 21:00
  
  Pensioners Bryan and Sandra Blundell saved by their decision to have their drinks in their lounge in Friday the 13th crash
  
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• No encore for ‘Busking Bobby’ PC Ian Northcott

  14-03-2015 00:00
  A Birmingham police officer whose tireless efforts to improve conditions for the city's homeless - a mission that would lead to online stardom - is set hang up his boots. 
  
  PC Ian Northcott, probably better known to most as the ‘Busking Bobby’, shot to social media fame when his impromptu rendition of an Oasis classic was uploaded to YouTube. And through his ‘Socks & Chocs’ charity the 50-year-old has collected 17,000 pairs of socks and over 21,000 boxes of chocolates, plus hundreds
  
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• Friends jailed for pistol raid on petrol station

  14-03-2015 00:00
  Two friends have been jailed for a total of almost 13 years for a failed armed robbery on a petrol station after detectives found their DNA on clothing dumped behind a pub.
  
  Luke Carty (pictured) rushed into the BP garage in Coventry during a daring midday raid and pointed a pistol at a cashier’s chest while 26-year-old accomplice Jason Dalton acted as a lookout holding open the door to aid their escape. We've released CCTV footage of the robbery attempt...
  
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• Enquiry launched after body found in Birmingham car-park

  14-03-2015 00:00
  Detectives are trying to piece together the last movements of a man found dead in a Birmingham car park last month.
  
  The 39-year-old Sri Lankan national (pictured) was found collapsed in the Bordesley Street car park by a security guard at around 9.15am on 28 February having travelled up from London by coach the previous night. A post mortem has since found he'd suffered serious chest and pelvis injuries. Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen him walking from Digbeth coach station to
  
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• Driver sought as car driven into club crowd - teen left with serious back injury

  14-03-2015 00:00
  Detectives are searching for the occupants of a Vauxhall Astra which drove at a crowd of people as they left a West Bromwich social club.
  
  The crash, on Friday 20 February, left an 18-year-old girl in hospital with spinal injuries. Police believe the Astra contained three or four Asian men who'd been involved in a disturbance outside the venue earlier that night. Detectives have released a CCTV image of the suspect car in the hope of tracing those responsible.
  
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