Solihull news

• Armed police at Birmingham New Street Station over 'suspicious' train passenger

  24-06-2015 23:20
  
  British Transport Police call in armed support after reports of passenger behaving suspiciously
  
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• 12 year-old Quinton boy loses battle against cancer after parents raised cash for treatment

  24-06-2015 22:00
  
  Neehari Robinson's funeral to be held tomorrow (Thursday, June 25)
  
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• LIVE: What you need to know about child sexual exploitation in Birmingham

  24-06-2015 20:00
  
  Join us tonight as we reveal the details of four confidential West Midlands Police reports into child sexual exploitation in Birmingham
  
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• Revealed: Birmingham's most dangerous roads for cyclists

  24-06-2015 20:00
  
  Four people on bikes injured in city every day - exclusive figures
  
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• Kardashians pal Lord Aleem in Top Gear audition tilt

  24-06-2015 20:00
  
  Super-rich self-styled peer is 'bombarded' with pleas for him to try out for smash-hit BBC show
  
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• Police hunt three youths after teenager left with fractured eye socket during robbery

  24-06-2015 19:41
  
  Police want help identifying youths after teenager assaulted on Kingstanding bus
  
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• Over 600 new FGM cases in West Midlands in six months

  24-06-2015 17:00
  
  Figures from seven West Midland hospitals show medics had to deal with 632 women and gils undergone illegal procedure
  
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• Kings Norton care home workers accused of wilful neglect of 85 year-old resident

  24-06-2015 17:00
  
  Sabrina Duncan and Benter Ouma have both denied a charge of wilful neglect at Birmingham Crown Court
  
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• FGM survivor speaks of her horrific experience

  24-06-2015 17:00
  
  Sarata Jabbi, from Kings Norton, relives her terror FGM ordeal as a child in the Gambia
  
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• 18 old skool pics of Birmingham's rave scene in the Eighties and Nineties

  24-06-2015 16:30
  
  As Rave Against Racism festival comes to Digbeth, we look back at the old skool rave days in the city
  
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• What is FGM?

  24-06-2015 14:54
  
  Everything you need to know about female genital mutilation
  
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• Police knew grooming gangs were targeting Birmingham schools five years ago but did not alert public

  24-06-2015 14:38
  
  Confidential documents also show West Midlands force was concerned about community tensions because of link to Pakistani men
  
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• Live: Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after Northfield stabbing

  24-06-2015 13:43
  
  17-year-old quizzed by police as victim fights for life after attack outside Wychall Lane shops
  
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• Channel Tunnel services returning to normal after French ferry workers strike

  24-06-2015 13:33
  
  The ferry workers' action closed the port of Calais for a time yesterday, but the port was open today and Dover-Calais sailings were operating normally. Eurotunnel said that its passenger and freight shuttles were running as scheduled
  
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• Birmingham council to sell off two NEC hotels

  24-06-2015 12:30
  
  Cash-strapped authority puts Hilton and Crowne Plaza on market months after raising £300m with NEC Group sale
  
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• 'Birmingham are a failing authority' - Coventry councillors hit out at West Midlands plans

  24-06-2015 12:30
  
  Tories accuse Labour of fearing debate - and Labour hit back with scaremongering claim in clashes over combined authority proposals
  
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• Omar Al Shaikh crowd-funding campaign launched to help pay funeral costs - donate here

  24-06-2015 12:16
  
  Family friend Jo Khalaf has set up a Just Giving page to help the family of Omar Al Shaikh pay for his funeral
  
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• 'A sad but beautiful story' - how you reacted to Omar Al Shaikh's tragic story

  24-06-2015 12:15
  
  Brave schoolboy, Omar Al Shaikh, lost his battle with leukaemia days after marrying his childhood sweetheart Amie Cresswell, at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
  
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• Teenager arrested after man is stabbed in Northfield

  24-06-2015 12:04
  
  Man quizzed on suspicion of attempted murder as victim fights for life after attack outside shops in Wychall Lane
  
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• How John Corbett turned the salt enterprise around

  24-06-2015 12:01
  
  One of the places the scarce, valuable commodity of salt was discovered was in Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, almost 190 years ago, turning a quiet leafy village into a hub of "almost exclusive" salt manufacture.
  
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• Grace Academy teacher banned from classroom for explicit Facebook message to pupil

  24-06-2015 12:00
  
  Ian Jones, 40, admitted that he was guilty of "unacceptable professional conduct"
  
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• Grace Academy teacher banned from classroom for expletive Facebook message to pupil

  24-06-2015 12:00
  
  Ian Jones, 40, admitted that he was guilty of "unacceptable professional conduct"
  
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• Another gallery of YOUR fantastic school prom pictures

  24-06-2015 11:38
  
  Keep them coming and we'll publish them!
  
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• Cyclists halt traffic in London in protest at eight deaths

  24-06-2015 10:54
  
  All six of the Bank Junction arms ground to a halt as a flash protest took place in the heart of the City.
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at June 24 in years gone by

  24-06-2015 10:50
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on June 24.
  
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• WikiLeaks documents cause French President to hold emergency meeting

  24-06-2015 10:31
  
  The release prompted uproar among French politicians, although it did not reveal any huge surprises or secrets. France is among several US allies that rely heavily on American spying powers when trying to prevent terrorist and other threats
  
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• Harborne pensioner injured as car mounts pavement

  24-06-2015 09:51
  
  Man in his 80s taken to hospital following accident in Lordswood Road
  
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• Police hail success of crackdown on foreign criminals

  24-06-2015 09:43
  
  Operation Trivium involves officers from West Midlands, Romania and Lithuania, plus Dutch police and Europol
  
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• Two officers hurt as police car overturns in Wolverhampton crash

  24-06-2015 09:23
  
  Pair treated for minor injuries following collision with transit van as they responded to emergency call
  
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• Eight admit drug dealing crimes after blitz across Birmingham and Black Country

  24-06-2015 09:05
  
  Suspects appear in court following Sandwell Spring Safer Six crackdown
  
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• Read the heart-breaking diary of dyslexic boy desperate to leave his mainstream school

  24-06-2015 07:30
  
  Read 11-year-old Alex Walker's moving school diary recorded as his mum battles for him to attend Maple Hayes in Lichfield to fulfil his full potential
  
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• How dyslexic schoolboy's mum is taking on education bosses in bid to win him place at specialist school

  24-06-2015 07:30
  
  Mother of struggling Alex Walker, 11, battling for him to attend Maple Hayes in Lichfield to fulfil his full potential
  
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• Burglar who sexually assaulted his victim is sent to jail by appeal judges

  24-06-2015 07:30
  
  Birmingham court's community sentence on Joshua Sweet, of Weoley Castle, is ruled 'unduly lenient' by Court of Appeal
  
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• Live: Birmingham and West Midlands breaking news, traffic, sport and weather

  24-06-2015 07:00
  
  Live Midlands news on June 24 plus weather, traffic and sports
  
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• Third man convicted of the death of Coventry teen Lucy Commins in collision

  24-06-2015 00:00
  A third man has been convicted of causing the death of a Coventry teen.Ross Clark, from Sevenoaks in Kent, was found guilty at Warwickshire Crown Court yesterday (23 June) of causing death by careless driving and failing to provide a blood specimen after a crash on Ansty Road which killed 16-year-old Lucy Commins in February last year.38-year-old Clark, who previously lived in Coventry, was the driver of a silver Mercedes CLK carrying Lucy and her friend on that fateful evening, when he pulled o
  
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• Police officers escape with minor injuries as car rolls in Wolverhampton collision

  24-06-2015 00:00
  Two police officers escaped with minor injuries after a collision with a transit van as they responded to an emergency incident in Wolverhampton last night (23 June). The marked Vauxhall Insignia collided with a white transit van at the junction of Bilston Road and Steelhouse Lane around 11:30pm and, after crashing into railings, rolled onto its roof trapping a female officer. 
  
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• #OpTrivium Day 2 update: Bucharest bobbies on the beat in Coventry!

  24-06-2015 00:00
  A national offensive against overseas crooks in the UK continues at pace with a total of 160 people arrested in the first 48 hours of Operation Trivium.#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).In Coventry, Romanian traffic cop Rotar Mircea joined local beat officers on patrol yesterday in parts of Foleshill and Hillfields.
  
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• On-the-run drink-drive suspect netted by roadside fingerprint kit - latest #OpTrivium success

  24-06-2015 00:00
  A suspected drink-driver on the run for five years after skipping court and posing as another man has been arrested by police as part of Operation Trivium.The 36-year-old was found driving a minibus at Junction 6 of the M5 yesterday morning (23 June) ferrying five others, believed to be illegal ‘over-stayers’ in the UK, from Birmingham to a Bristol construction site.
  
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• Halesowen dad killed when hit by car named

  24-06-2015 00:00
  A man killed as he put his young children into his car has been named as David Hinton.The 47-year-old died in hospital on Sunday 21 June, a day after he was struck by a red Volkswagen Polo on Oakham Road in Dudley on Saturday.
   
  Mr Hinton was tended to by passers-by until medics arrived following the 3pm incident. 
  
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• Guilty tally rises in Sandwell drugs blitz

  24-06-2015 00:00
  Three men have admitted their role in a Sandwell-based conspiracy to supply drugs.The trio - all in their 20s and from Birmingham and Sandwell – pleaded guilty to their crimes 24 hours after two women and six men pleaded guilty to similar offences as part of the same operation.
  
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