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• Real Schools Guide 2015: Birmingham's best schools are revealed

  07-08-2015 20:30
  
  How did your child's secondary school do in the Birmingham Mail's new Real School Guide?
  
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• Brum student who claims to have beaten the bookies and made £20,000 in a year offers top tips for the season

  07-08-2015 19:31
  
  Charlton Bird from Kings Heath tips Wolves to get promoted and Benteke to score on debut against Stoke.
  
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• Landlord's terror as he hid from robbers in pub loo as he called 999

  07-08-2015 19:30
  
  Rose Villa tavern manager was ambushed after closing time by gang
  
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• Kate Jakes - family pay tributes to inspirational transplant patient after tragic death

  07-08-2015 19:30
  22-year-old got married recently, and campaigned for people to join donor register
  
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• Charity champion Ollie Stevens-Smith nominated for Pride of Birmingham Award

  07-08-2015 19:30
  Inspirational Ollie Stevens-Smith, aged 9, has raised thousands of pounds for charity while battling rare bone cancer and undergoing above knee amputation
  
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• Jailed: Gun wielding man who raped student, 19, in graveyard

  07-08-2015 19:08
  
  Michael Ware was spotted following another woman armed with a knife days later - and arrested
  
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• Revealed: The Midlands Twitter-users with the biggest UK influence

  07-08-2015 18:06
  
  Social media analysts at Lissted have named these  tweeters from around Birmingham, the Black Country, Solihull and Coventry as the having the biggest influence on the rest of the UK
  
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• Thug who left father-of-five for dead in brutal brick attack jailed for 17 years

  07-08-2015 18:02
  
  James MacMillan carried out 'motiveless' attack on Mahmoud Hussain as he walked home from chemist
  
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• Solihull actor Ben Fellows cleared at the Old Bailey - Solihull Observer

  07-08-2015 17:42 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Solihull actor Ben Fellows cleared at the Old Bailey
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  The 40-year-old, from Olton, had claimed he was sexually assaulted by former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke. During a trial at the Old Bailey, the court heard that in 2012 Mr Fellows told national news reporters Mr Clarke had assaulted him in the office of ...
  
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• Family fury after carers who failed to get help after mum fell and then lied avoid jail terms

  07-08-2015 17:00
  
  Daughter of Norah Boyle, who died after the fall, blasted the sentences handed to Benter Ouma, 32, and Sabrina Dunan, 40.
  
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• Canine cutey Patch off to new home after appeal in Mail

  07-08-2015 17:00
  
  Puppy delighted to meet his new owners after he was dumped on the city's streets
  
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• Perry Park travellers moved on - but set up camp four miles down the road

  07-08-2015 15:40
  
  Council and police work with traveller families to move them on from Perry Barr, but they set up camp after 15 minute drive down A34
  
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• Birmingham's weekend weather - city set to sizzle as temperatures beat Spain

  07-08-2015 14:41
  
  Full rundown of what we can expect
  
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• Fire-hit Wholesale Markets reopen as manager speaks of moment blaze erupted

  07-08-2015 14:13
  
  40 firefighters called to scene as smoke could be seen from miles away
  
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• Estelle Morris predicts "exciting times" for Birmingham schools in education shake-up

  07-08-2015 13:49
  
  The former education secretary is due to take charge of improving performance at city schools in her new role as head of the Birmingham Education Partnership.
  
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• Julian Lloyd Webber marks the start to the build of the new £46 million Birmingham Conservatoire

  07-08-2015 12:50
  
  Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, the principal of Birmingham Conservatoire, marks the start of the new £46 million development being built on Birmingham City University's city centre campus
  
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• Do you know this man? - Solihull Observer

  07-08-2015 12:48 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Do you know this man?
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  POLICE have released this CCTV image of a man after a teenage girl was threatened in a supermarket. The 17-year-old had been shopping in Asda on Bosworth Drive, Chelmsley Wood yesterday when the unprovoked threats were made to her and her ...
  
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• Ice rink hopes for Birmingham as go-ahead for flats on Silver Blades site granted

  07-08-2015 12:30
  
  Planning Committee members say Birmingham needs an ice rink
  
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• Ice rink hopes for Birmingham as go-ahead for flats on Silver Blades site given

  07-08-2015 12:30
  
  Planning Committee members say Birmingham needs an ice rink
  
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• Ex West Bromwich Albion and Wolves star loses cancer battle

  07-08-2015 12:19
  
  Danny Hegan dies in a Birmingham hospice
  
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• Bullring now the pride of Birmingham

  07-08-2015 12:14
  
  The Bullring Shopping Centre which is gearing up to celebrate its 12th birthday in just a month's time - on September 4 - ahead of entering its teen years next year.
  
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• Shocking footage of HGV driving wrong way down M6 Toll

  07-08-2015 11:41
  
  Two men from Romania were given suspended jail sentences after being spotted by police in lorry driving south on northbound carriageway
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at August 7 in years gone by

  07-08-2015 11:20
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on August 7.
  
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• Hit-and-run driver mows down West Midlands Police officer

  07-08-2015 10:47
  
  40 year-old unnamed officer was taken to hospital after driver sped from scene in Dudley
  
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• Real Schools Guide 2015: We reveal the region's top schools

  07-08-2015 10:35
  
  The Birmingham Mail's new Real Schools Guide reveals the top schools in the Midlands - how has your child's school done?
  
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• 2 HGVs, a 4x4 and other vehicles in M6 pile-up

  07-08-2015 09:48
  
  Ambulance service say motorists are lucky to be alive following smash at 6pm yesterday (August 6)
  
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• 4 prisoners at YOI Swinfen Hall injured as jail placed on lockdown

  07-08-2015 09:23
  
  Specially trained officers were sent to deal with "an incident of indiscipline" at jail near Lichfield
  
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• West Midlands Police sent to Ibiza and Magaluf to help Spanish officers deal with British holidaymakers

  07-08-2015 08:42
  
  Sergeant and constable from West Midlands Police to work alongside officers from the Guarda Civil for two week trial
  
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• Live: Friday's latest news, weather, sport and travel updates in Birmingham and the West Midlands

  07-08-2015 07:49
  
  The day's local and national news, traffic and sports updates and the weather outlook, as it happens on August 7th.
  
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• West Midland Police three times more likely to stop and search black people than whites

  07-08-2015 07:30
  
  Figures reveal how often police search people from different ethnic groups in the West Midlands - and there are huge differences.
  
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• Historic Handsworth pub to become Mosque

  07-08-2015 07:30
  
  The Endwood, empty for more than two years, will be repaired and restored before Mosque relocate
  
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• Controversial Al Hijrah school should be bulldozed: Education chief

  07-08-2015 07:30
  
  Bordesley Green school is £3 million in debt and building is crumbling
  
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• Two carers sentenced for neglect following death at Birmingham care home

  07-08-2015 00:00
  Two carers who failed to get swift medical attention to a frail pensioner who fell at a Birmingham care home - and spent time concocting a false alibi - have been sentenced for neglect. Sabrina Duncan (40) of Shartlands Close in Cotteridge, and 31-year-old Benter Ouma from Poplar Road, Bearwood, were lifting 85-year-old Norah Boyle into bed on 5 September 2013 when she slipped from the hoist and banged her head.Rather than getting help the cruel pair delayed calling an ambulance to Green Nursin
  
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• Summer Album #7 - Football Liaison Officer

  07-08-2015 00:00
  There’s been no summer break for West Midlands Police’s Football Unit as work continues behind the scenes with the region’s six professional clubs to fine-tune policing strategy for the new season and gather intelligence on problem fans. PC Martin Portman has been our West Brom liaison officer since 2004 and has policed in excess of 1,000 matches either as a ‘Spotter’ − on the lookout for risk supporters − armed with a video camera as an evidence gatherer, or a public order tactic
  
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• Birmingham grave yard sex attacker jailed

  07-08-2015 00:00
  A man who held a gun to the head of a teenager before raping her in a Birmingham grave yard has been jailed.Michael Ware, 23, of Shenley Fields Drive in Northfield was today (7 August) sentenced to 15 years at Birmingham Crown Court after pleading guilty to the assault.Ware had followed the 19-year-old from Kings Norton railway station on the evening of Saturday 6 December 2014.He threatened her with the imitation firearm on Back Road, Kings Norton and forced her into church grounds nearby.Durin
  
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• Appeal for information after officer injured in Dudley

  07-08-2015 00:00
  A Dudley police officer was injured after a car, which he was trying to stop, drove at him and then raced off yesterday afternoon (August 6).The collision happened just before 3.30pm in Wolverhampton Road as the sergeant attempted to stop a silver Volkswagen Golf on suspicion that the driver was involved in drugs offences.
  
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• 17 years jail for concrete slab attack on Birmingham dad

  07-08-2015 00:00
  A remorseless, violent thug who tried to kill a Birmingham dad by repeatedly hitting him over the head with a concrete slab has been jailed for 17 years.James Macmillan, of no fixed address, launched an unprovoked attack on his 40-year-old victim after coming across him in Stud Lane, Stechford, on 20 December last year culminating in him hitting the man over the head with a coping stone plucked from the floor.The 24-year-old was jailed for 17 years at Birmingham Crown Court today.
  
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