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• A-level blunder: Former Solihull Sixth Form College students tell of earlier ... - Birmingham Mail

  19-03-2015 19:51 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  A-level blunder: Former Solihull Sixth Form College students tell of earlier ...
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  The Sixth Form College in Solihull, which has admitted teaching A-Level students the wrong syllabus. Former students at a leading sixth form college slammed for teaching youngsters the wrong A-level syllabus have revealed they suffered stress due to ...
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• Solihull Sixth Form College taught wrong A-level syllabus - BBC News

  19-03-2015 15:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Solihull Sixth Form College taught wrong A-level syllabus
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  A sixth form college in the West Midlands has apologised after students were taught the wrong A-level syllabus. Solihull Sixth Form College said one unit on its health and social care course had not met the requirement the students needed for their ...
  
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• Woman caught on CCTV attacking schoolgirl in Wolverhampton

  19-03-2015 00:00
  Police are asking for help in identifying a woman who kicked and punched a 13-year-old girl outside a Wolverhampton store.
  
  The woman, who was with a young child, carried out a sustained attack on the youngster in broad daylight.
  
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• Teenager critical after police car collision in Erdington

  19-03-2015 00:00
  A 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after being involved in a collision with a police car last night (Wednesday 18 March).
  
  The teenager, from the Kingstanding area of Birmingham, was struck as he crossed Sutton New Road outside Erdington police station shortly after 9pm.
  
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• Police search for missing Birmingham teen

  19-03-2015 00:00
  Birmingham police are searching for a young teen who has been missing since Saturday (14 March). 
  
  Alisha Buchanan, aged 14, went missing from her temporary home in Stockport, Cheshire, but is believed to have made her way back to her hometown of Birmingham and could be in the Nechells, Lozells and Aston areas or the city centre. 
  
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• Nightclubber’s kneecap broken in violent assault

  19-03-2015 00:00
  CCTV has been released of a man and woman sought by detectives after a nightclubber had his kneecap broken during a vicious assault in Walsall town centre.
  
  The 32-year-old had spent most of the evening in the pub, celebrating the festive season, before starting to walk home in the early hours of Sunday 21 December.
  
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• Killer claimed partner fell down stairs to cover-up crime

  19-03-2015 00:00
  A man who killed his partner after a night of drinking and then claimed to emergency services that she had fallen down the stairs, has been jailed for five years.
  
  Edward Metcalfe, aged 35, from Riverside Crescent, Hall Green, was sentenced after being found guilty of killing Tracy Topliss in November 2013.
  
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• Freedom of Information - From big cat sightings to alien abductions...

  19-03-2015 00:00
  As part of its pledge to be as open and transparent as possible, West Midlands Police publishes all FOI requests onto its website as a matter of course.
  
  And while the act enables important statistics and information to be published, it has also highlighted some of the force’s more unusual call outs.
  
  From alleged alien abductions to big cat sightings and clown attacks, you can view some of our more unusual FOI requests on our new Buzzfeed post here.
  
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• CCTV clues to Erdington bus blaze culprit

  19-03-2015 00:00
  Police have released CCTV of the moment a young man set light to newspaper on a double decker bus in a bid to trace him.
  
  The lad appears to use a lighter to set a corner of the paper alight before calmly getting up and leaving at the next stop.
  
  The blaze took hold on the rear seat of the upper deck of the number 904 in Erdington around 4pm yesterday on Tuesday 17 March, as fire crews raced to the High Street. 
  
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