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• Birmingham garage cashier cloned fuel cards in £30,000 scam

  05-08-2015 23:00
  
  Khaled Abdulkawi avoids jail sentence over fraud as police continue to seek suspected accomplice
  
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• Grieving son writes poetry tribute to his tragic mountain death mother

  05-08-2015 22:00
  
  Mountain tragedy mum praised in poetry by her grieving son
  
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• Banker fleeced elderly out of £19,000 to try and keep her gambling boyfriend

  05-08-2015 22:00
  
  Banker Samantha Such plundered money from several OAP accounts in a bid to save her relationship with her boyfriend
  
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• Revealed: The Midlands most influential Twitter-users 149-100

  05-08-2015 20:48
  
  Social media analysts say these Twitter accounts from Birmingham, Black Country, Solihull, Wolverhampton and Coventry have the ability to influence the UK more than most in the region
  
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• Grandad Ray Foley creates an oasis of colour on one of Midlands' busiest roads

  05-08-2015 20:31
  
  Grandad Ray Foley has amassed 2,500 plants outside his flat on the busy Stratford Road in Solihull
  
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• African trio end 'miracle' experience with Solihull Moors - Solihull Observer

  05-08-2015 20:01 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  African trio end 'miracle' experience with Solihull Moors
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  MOORS waved goodbye to four new friends last week who had been visiting the club from Meadowlands Academy FC in Soweto, South Africa. Three of their young players had been training with Moors Reserves and Under 18's squad for the past month ...and more »
  
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• From liver transplant patient to nurse - the inspirational and tragic story of Sally Painting

  05-08-2015 20:00
  
  Now her diaries have been turned into a book by her dad
  
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• Phoebe's silver is a fitting reward - Solihull Observer

  05-08-2015 19:51 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Phoebe's silver is a fitting reward
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  ALL-ROUNDER Phoebe Harland came away from the All-England Schools' Athletic Championships with a silver medal in the junior girls' high jump. The Solihull School pupil finished runner-up at Gateshead International Stadium with a leap of 1.72m, which ...
  
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• Canalside Cafe: Pub used out date food and wasn't clean

  05-08-2015 19:24
  
  Popular venue fined over £8,000 after environmental health officers carried out inspection
  
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• Walsall mum Jessica Simpson missing with toddler son Alfie Rogers

  05-08-2015 19:05
  
  Police are appealing for Walsall mum, Jessica Simpson, who is missing with her young son Alfie Rogers, to get in touch
  
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• Former Lancashire and Pakistan cricket legend Wasim Akram safe after being shot at in Karachi

  05-08-2015 18:03
  
  Police searching for gunman who opened fire in apparent road rage incident
  
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• Business groups give backing to 'Greater Birmingham' combined authority

  05-08-2015 18:00
  
  Three Chambers of Commerce to host conference on plans for regional council group
  
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• Travellers return to Solihull once again - Solihull Observer

  05-08-2015 16:49 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Travellers return to Solihull once again
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  GYPSIES have yet again returned to the borough – this time descending on Sheldon Country Park and Lyndon Park. The travellers – with their caravans estimated to number more than 20 – arrived in Sheldon on Monday, July 27. They were said to have left ...
  
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• Nissan e-NV200 joins Solihull's neighbourhood team - FleetPoint

  05-08-2015 15:01 via fleetpoint.org
  
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  Nissan e-NV200 joins Solihull's neighbourhood team
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  The multi award-winning all-electric Nissan e-NV200 is helping to make the West Midlands a better place to live after joining the fleet of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. The ground-breaking van, which costs just two pence per mile to run and ...
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• Capita closing Erdington print firm despite multi-million pound council contract

  05-08-2015 14:53
  
  MP Jack Dromey condemns job losses and says firm 'has duty' to Birmingham
  
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• Library of Birmingham and MAC named in top 20 most visited free English attractions for 2014

  05-08-2015 14:44
  
  List dominated by 14 London venues with two from Birmingham and one from the North
  
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• Canal rapist has his sentence increased

  05-08-2015 14:40
  
  Judges say Matthew Whitmore's attack on a virgin teenager was 'appalling'
  
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• Live: Wednesday's latest news, travel, weather and sports updates for Birmingham and the West Midlands

  05-08-2015 14:25
  
  Local and national news, traffic updates, sports latest and the weather outlook, as it happens on August 5th.
  
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• The great air conditioning debate: Ladies are you feeling the chill?

  05-08-2015 14:25
  
  New research suggests that air conditioner temperatures in offices were originally designed to keep men comfortable at the expense of freezing out women
  
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• Kids Company charity to close amid warning of 'devastating' impact on children

  05-08-2015 13:08
  
  Organisation works with 36,000 children and young people,
  
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• 20th Century poet's Harborne link

  05-08-2015 12:57
  
  W H Auden is regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century and he spent many years of his life in and around Birmingham.
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at August 5 in years gone by

  05-08-2015 12:47
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on August 5.
  
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• Pervert teacher victims to take legal action against city council

  05-08-2015 12:45
  
  Victims of Marcus Macussen forced to live their lives "with the pain and trauma of abuse" - solicitor
  
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• Birmingham's oldest bride Lola Nash dies aged 88

  05-08-2015 12:30
  
  Great grandmother Lola Nash, who hit the headlines when she remarried her ex-husband aged 85, died after a short illness
  
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• Manhunt for thug suspected of serious assaults and sex attack on underage girl

  05-08-2015 12:29
  
  Marvin Trevis is also suspected of stabbing a man in a pub and breaching restariing order and recall to prison
  
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• Mikrofill updates services for Solihull School - Modern Building Services (blog)

  05-08-2015 12:00 via modbs.co.uk
  
  Mikrofill updates services for Solihull School
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  Heating and hot water for the sports hall of Solihull School, a co-educational school in the centre of the town, is now provided by Mikrofill equipment. The system comprises an Ethos 50 kW condensing boiler, pressurisation package and an Extreme 300 l ...
  
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• Drunk man in Google Street View car chase says he's a 'changed man'

  05-08-2015 12:00
  
  The footage shows sales manager Mr Beer being carried by two friends before giving chase and failing miserably.
  
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• Body of Solihull grandmother Suzanne Hughes who went missing in Norfolk found ... - Birmingham Mail

  05-08-2015 11:53 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Body of Solihull grandmother Suzanne Hughes who went missing in Norfolk found ...
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  Suzanne Hughes, aged 67, went missing on final day of her holiday in Norfolk with her daughter and grandson last month. Police believe they have found her body off Dutch coast. Share; Share; Tweet; +1; LinkedIn ...
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• Body of Solihull grandmother Suzanne Hughes who went missing in Norfolk found off the coast of Holland

  05-08-2015 11:44
  
  Suzanne Hughes, aged 67, went missing on final day of her holiday in Norfolk with her daughter and grandson last month. Police believe they have found her body off Dutch coast
  
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• 'Substandard' hospital consultation slammed by councillor after events abandoned without telling patients

  05-08-2015 11:17
  
  Staff at the consultation for non-emergency transport had 'packed up and gone home' when patients arrived at scheduled meetings
  
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• Silhillians urged to get knitting for Age UK - Solihull Observer

  05-08-2015 11:07 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Silhillians urged to get knitting for Age UK
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  Jayna Kawa, Fundraising Assistant at Age UK Solihull, with the some of the 5,000 hats received last year. (s). Written by Sarah Judkins. Published 9:56 am, Aug 05, 2015. 0 shares. NIMBLE-fingered residents across the borough are being called upon once ...
  
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• Lord Coe vows 'fightback' against doping allegations

  05-08-2015 09:58
  
  New claims that IAAF failed to act on suspicious blood tests involving hundreds of athletes over 10-year period
  
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• M6 Toll lorry driver arrested on suspicion of driving wrong direction on carriageway

  05-08-2015 09:18
  
  CMPG officers apprehended truck hurtling in wrong direction this morning (August 5)
  
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• Oldbury suspect hit-and-run victim dies

  05-08-2015 08:25
  
  Anthony Maskell, 50, died from injuries after he was struck by vehicle in Oldbury last Thursday (July 30)
  
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• Morning news headlines: Fifth police force receives allegations over Edward Heath sex abuse claims, number of hauliers fined over illegal immigrants triples

  05-08-2015 08:00
  
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• Library of Birmingham tourist office is closed down by council

  05-08-2015 07:30
  
  Further cuts mean visitors can no longer get personal advice on what to do in city at Library of Birmingham and follows closure of offices at New Street and Birmingham Airport
  
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• Labour leadership candidates could scrap Birmingham's high speed rail line

  05-08-2015 07:30
  
  Three out of four Labour leadership candidates fail to back a planned rail line expected to create thousands of jobs in Birmingham
  
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• Christmas burglar targeted homes in Sheldon, Moseley, Yardley, Edgbaston and Balsall Heath - court hears

  05-08-2015 07:30
  
  Christoper Straker, 32, faces 13 allegations of burglary after homes were targeted during 11 day spree at Christmas
  
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• Walsall mum Jessica Simpson missing with young son Alfie Rogers

  05-08-2015 00:00
  Police in Walsall are urgently appealing for a mum, missing with her toddler son, to get in touch. Jessica Simpson – also known as Jessica Halls – is missing along with her 23-month-old boy, Alfie Rogers. 
  
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• Trio jailed after police swoop on Wolverhampton robbers

  05-08-2015 00:00
  Three men who attacked a Wolverhampton shopkeeper for his takings − threatening him with a machete and pistol-whipping him − have all been handed lengthy jail sentences.Isaac Frazer, Ashley Haughton and Zubair Khan ambushed the man in a courtyard near his home in Newhampton Road, Whitmore Reans, in the early hours of 13 December last year.
  
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• Summer Album #5 - Meet our water search team

  05-08-2015 00:00
  West Midlands Police fights crime on land, in the air…and on water!The force has a specialist water search team that’s deployed to support missing people enquiries, trawl lakes, rivers or canals for any evidence dumped by offenders, and to patrol waterways during major events.
  
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• ‘Shell’-shocked but safe: Stolen 60-year-old back home thanks to Coventry Police

  05-08-2015 00:00
  A 60-year-old who was taken from his home against his will has been reunited with his 94-year-old guardian thanks to officers from Coventry Police.Mrs Jean McCluskey was left devastated when her pet tortoise that had lived with her for over six decades was stolen from her Stoke home. 
  
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• Police search for Birmingham man wanted for serious assaults

  05-08-2015 00:00
  Police are searching for a man wanted in connection with two serious attacks and a serious sexual assault on a girl under 16 yrs.
   
  Marvin Trevis, 25, of no fixed address, is suspected of assaulting a woman and causing her to suffer head injuries in June 2015 and in a separate incident, of stabbing a man while in a pub.  He is also wanted in connection with  a breach of a restraining order and recall to prison.
  
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• Men arrested on suspicion of distributing terrorist publication bailed

  05-08-2015 00:00
  Two men, arrested yesterday (4 August) on suspicion of distributing a terrorist publication (contrary to Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006), have been released on police bail.The pair, both aged 18, were detained at their home addresses in the Alum Rock and Washwood Heath areas at around 7am. 
  
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• Driver sought after man dies in suspected Oldbury hit-and-run

  05-08-2015 00:00
  A man, who was badly hurt in a suspected hit-and-run in Oldbury last week, has died from his injuries.  Anthony Maskell, known as Tony and aged 50, was walking along the dual carriageway on Birchfield Lane just before midnight on 30 July when he was involved in a collision – just outside the Whiteheath Tavern. 
  
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• Crooked cashier cloned fuel cards in £30,000 forecourt scam

  05-08-2015 00:00
  A garage cashier has narrowly avoided jail for his part in a fuel card cloning scam in which £30,000 of petrol and diesel was stolen from forecourts across Birmingham.Khaled Abdulkawi cloned at least 46 cards at the Esso Falcon Service Station, Halesowen, and passed them to accomplices who topped up their tanks at the expense of companies signed up to the Allstar Fuel Card scheme. Police are still looking for this man (pictured) in relation to the scam - call us on 101 if you recognise him.
  
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