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• Confidential police reports reveal 'threats to life' to failed child sexual exploitation victims

  23-06-2015 23:08
  
  Birmingham Mail campaign sees release of bombshell documents which reveal true horror and scale of Asian grooming and trafficking gangs
  
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• Watch as teen soldier tries to fight off two armed thugs before they steal his new motorbike

  23-06-2015 22:00
  
  Tom Joiner, 17, suffered head injury after being attacked on the drive of his nan's house in Walsall
  
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• Brave schoolboy, 16, dies of leukaemia days after marrying sweetheart in hospital

  23-06-2015 22:00
  
  Omar Al Shaikh fulfilled last wish by tying knot with Amie Cresswell, also 16, at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  
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• Baby and toddler rescued from Kitts Green home after fireball blast

  23-06-2015 22:00
  
  Cousins Lilie-Mae, aged one and two-year-old Laidyn-Lee were asleep when the blaze broke out at the house in St Giles Road, Kitts Green
  
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• Quinton shooting: Gun fired in same road just hours earlier

  23-06-2015 20:00
  
  A man was injured when he was shot in the foot in Highfield Lane, Quinton, on Monday afternoon.
  
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• Birmingham father and son crooks jailed for scamming elderly victims in roofing con

  23-06-2015 20:00
  
  Robert Bennett and Ronald Reeves, of Acocks Green, unscupulously plundered thousands of pounds from vulnerable customers
  
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• Vital funds raised at Solihull Hospital summer fete - Solihull Observer

  23-06-2015 17:51 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Vital funds raised at Solihull Hospital summer fete
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  THE SUN shone down as hundreds of Silhillians attended the annual Friends of Solihull Hospital (FOSH) summer fete to raise thousands of pounds for the hospital. More than £7,000 was raised thanks to over 1,000 visitors who went to the event which was ...
  
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• Northfield Manor House set to rise from ashes in new flats scheme

  23-06-2015 17:00
  
  Exterior of historic building will be reconstructed brick-by-brick under proposals put forward by University of Birmingham
  
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• Two British teenagers on school trip held after alleged theft at Auschwitz

  23-06-2015 16:29
  
  Offence is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but police spokesman said they may go home "today or tomorrow" after paying a fine
  
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• See inside the 6 most expensive properties on sale right now in Solihull

  23-06-2015 16:26
  
  We take a look at the six most expensive homes you can buy in Solihull right now
  
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• Team channels spirit of Al Capone for hair-raising soapbox race

  23-06-2015 16:06
  
  Kart Capone are the creators of Birmingham's only entry in next month's Red Bull Soapbox Race at Alexandra Palace.
  
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• Handsworth crash tragedy headteacher: 'We are helping the children understand their friends are never coming back'

  23-06-2015 15:07
  
  Heather Brookes reveals staff and pupils have support of counsellors as they come to terms with deaths of Lily and Shelley Wu
  
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• Brownhills baker's Land Rover Defender is good enough to eat

  23-06-2015 14:58
  
  Lara Clarke creates edible 4x4 to mark production of two millionth model
  
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• Solihull man sails through his training to qualify as a mine warfare specialist - Solihull Observer

  23-06-2015 13:40 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Solihull man sails through his training to qualify as a mine warfare specialist
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  Smiles all round as AB (MW) Cory Lancaster receives his certificate from Captain Bob Anstey, Captain Training (North), Flag Officer Sea Training. (s). by: Solihull Editorial 12:29 pm, Jun 23, 2015 ...
  
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• Handsworth crash sisters Lily and Shelley Wu's school to provide 'lasting tribute'

  23-06-2015 13:23
  
  Wilkes Green thanks community for support as first picture emerges of the pair
  
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• Town Hall is now a Grade I Listed feather in Birmingham's cap

  23-06-2015 12:59
  
  Birmingham Town Hall was famed as being the finest music hall in the country when it threw open its doors just over 180 years ago.
  
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• Giant Land Rover cake rises to the occasion in Solihull - BBC News

  23-06-2015 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Giant Land Rover cake rises to the occasion in Solihull
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  A huge Land Rover cake weighing 600kg has been baked to celebrate production of Jaguar Land Rover's two millionth Defender. It took Lara Clarke from Brownhills in the Black Country 150 hours to make it, and it contains 50kg of butter cream and 32 ...
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• Live: John Lewis sneak peak - join us inside the city's new department store

  23-06-2015 12:42
  
  On Tuesday we are taking a tour of the city's new John Lewis store to see the latest stages of its construction
  
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• Attention pop fans with deep pockets - One Direction number plate is going under the hammer

  23-06-2015 12:30
  
  Rare reg from a 1960s Ford Zephyr is expected to fetch up to £30,000 at Stourbridge auction
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at June 23 in years gone by

  23-06-2015 11:41
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on June 23.
  
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• Crash driver lost in undergrowth used horn to alert medics

  23-06-2015 11:32
  
  Baffled emergency services followed sound to reach injured motorist in car stuck on its side hidden in shrubs
  
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• Business leaders want new super-council to be called 'Greater Birmingham' because it's a name the world will recognise

  23-06-2015 11:31
  
  Council leaders want a new regional authority to be called "West Midlands" - but business leaders say it must be called Greater Birmingham because that's a name the rest of the world recognises
  
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• Cows cause Sutton Coldfield rush hour chaos

  23-06-2015 10:28
  
  Delays for motorists after Sutton Park cattle wandered onto busy Thornhill Road
  
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• Walsall photographer in Taylor Swift row

  23-06-2015 10:24
  
  Jason Sheldon accuses star of double standards over her Apple music payment dispute
  
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• Over one million copies of new Fifty Shades book sold in the US

  23-06-2015 09:56
  
  UK sales data to be released today and are expected to confirm its best-seller status
  
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• HS2 Birmingham to London passengers want on-board GPs, shops and gyms

  23-06-2015 09:25
  
  List of wacky demands issued after high-speed rail bosses asked travellers: 'Tell us what you want'
  
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• Morning news headlines: Titanic composer James Horner dies in plane crash, hopes rise for Greek deal this week

  23-06-2015 08:06
  
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• Loving Black Country mum wins child custody after heart-rending battle

  23-06-2015 07:30
  
  Mother left baby brain damaged after shaking him fearing he was dying
  
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• Aston drug dealers ploughed car into a tree during crack and heroin run

  23-06-2015 07:30
  
  Harees Mahmood, 18, and Mohammed Ismaeel, 20 were on drug run when car ploughed into tree in Erdington
  
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• More pictures of first communions

  23-06-2015 01:00
  
  Keep the pictures coming, folks!
  
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• Jewel heist suspect among arrests on Day One of foreign crooks offensive

  23-06-2015 00:00
  Almost 70 people were arrested and 62 vehicles seized yesterday (June 22) as Operation Trivium – an offensive against overseas crooks operating or sheltering in the UK – sent out a strong message to foreign offenders.#OpTrivium runs throughout this week and sees officers from Romania and Lithuania, plus Dutch Police and Europol, join UK counterparts in Birmingham as part of the purge on Foreign National Offenders (FNOs).Arrests included a Romanian man wanted for questioning in Belgium where
  
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• Family name sisters killed crossing Handsworth road

  23-06-2015 00:00
  Two children killed as they crossed a Handsworth road on Sunday (21 June) have been named as Lily and Shelly Xin Wu. Lily, 7, and her sister Shelly, 6, had been crossing Grove Lane with their 39-year-old mother, 13-year-old brother and 12-year-old sister at around midday when they were struck by a grey coloured Seat Leon.
  
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• Eight more guilty of Sandwell drug crimes

  23-06-2015 00:00
  Eight people arrested as part of Spring Safer Six − a Sandwell wide blitz on drug dealers and associated crime − have pleaded guilty to a string of offences. All appeared before Birmingham Crown Court yesterday (Monday 22 June). 
  
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