Solihull news

• Miracle Sutton Coldfield athlete competes only four months after horror crash

  25-08-2015 22:00
  
  Fitness fanatic Peter Gibson completes triathlon with a metal frame supporting his leg after suffering serious injuries in accident in March
  
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• Mac theatre protest planned over play that depicts guru as a villain

  25-08-2015 22:00
  
  Worshippers to demonstrate outside theatre over production which shows group's guru as a robber, looter and killer
  
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• Ray Lill loses appeal over North Solihull Sports Centre sacking - Birmingham Mail

  25-08-2015 20:04 via
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  Ray Lill loses appeal over North Solihull Sports Centre sacking
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  A lottery-winning lifeguard who devoted himself to his job at a Solihull leisure centre has lost his battle to win his job back. Almost 4,000 supporters backed Ray Lill's bid to be reinstated at North Solihull Sports Centre. But in a short statement ...
  

• Ray Lill loses appeal over North Solihull Sports Centre sacking

  25-08-2015 20:00
  
  Grandad who kept working despite lottery win left devastated by decision
  
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• GCSE English results at Ninestiles Academy delayed by exam board probe

  25-08-2015 20:00
  
  Students at Ofsted 'outstanding' school will finally get their late results tomorrow
  
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• Gatecrasher, Rainbow and Electric nightclubs all CLOSED after police order license reviews

  25-08-2015 20:00
  
  Three of biggest clubs in Birmingham currently closed following police plea
  
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• Gatecrasher, Rainbow and Electric nightclubs all CLOSED after police order licence reviews

  25-08-2015 20:00
  
  Three of biggest clubs in Birmingham currently closed following police plea
  
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• Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to receive degree from Birmingham City University

  25-08-2015 18:28
  
  Film-maker behind top gangster show to be presented with Honorary Doctorate
  
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• Handsworth residents pay respects to crash sisters Lily and Shelley Wu

  25-08-2015 18:00
  
  Community stands in silent tribute as up to 100 gather for ceremony in memory of sisters killed in Grove Lane accident
  
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• Street pastor 'shocked but not surprised' by horrific city centre rape

  25-08-2015 17:00
  
  Jo Jowett says her team have stopped other women being 'dragged' into cars by 'predatory' men
  
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• Erdington bigamist Tony Foley claimed his wife died FIVE years before she passed away

  25-08-2015 17:00
  
  Shamed crook shacked up with new Russian bride 'immediately' after peddling the lie
  
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• Take a 3D tour of Birmingham New Street station on a virtual roller-coaster

  25-08-2015 16:55
  
  3D video sees you lets you complete a loop-the-loop at the all new Grand Central
  
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• Former Tory MP insists he is innocent of claims he was involved in the murder and sexual abuse of children

  25-08-2015 16:40
  
  Harvey Proctor was interviewed under caution by Metropolitan Police officers working on Operation Midland
  
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• Disruption to the rail network to affect bank holiday weekend travel

  25-08-2015 16:29
  
  Improvement work is taking place on the West Coast Main Line which will affect services from a number of key locations, including Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.
  
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• Home Secretary praises Birmingham groups tackling hate-preachers and ISIS extremists

  25-08-2015 16:15
  
  Theresa May meets commnuity groups who back her call to stand up to those 'extremists who want to divide us'
  
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• Birmingham named UK's fourth fake tan capital

  25-08-2015 15:33
  
  Glasgow, Liverpool, Essex and Manchester feature in top five locations for from the bottle perma-tan
  
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• Most read: Drug dealer who 'can't understand' Welsh, Batman pulled over by cops and mosque expansion

  25-08-2015 13:49
  
  Here's your lunch time round-up on Tuesday, 25 August.
  
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• Handsworth remembers Lily and Shelley Wu at their funeral service

  25-08-2015 13:18
  
  Tragic sisters died in road crash which left mum and two sisters injured
  
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• 14 trainee GPs left unable to work in NHS blunder

  25-08-2015 13:10
  
  Admin error 'compounds' problems facing surgeries amid rising demand
  
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• 1976 heatwave led to the hottest summer since records began

  25-08-2015 12:27
  
  A heatwave in 1976 led to the hottest summer average temperature in the UK since records began.
  
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• Five arrested after Northfield police chase through gardens

  25-08-2015 12:05
  
  Gun and ammunition also seized following search of a car
  
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• Drug dealer who 'can't understand' Welsh accent avoids jail

  25-08-2015 11:37
  
  Dwaine Campbell was lost by voices he heard in Aberystwyth, court told
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at August 25 in years gone by

  25-08-2015 11:17
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on August 25.
  
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• One Direction are not splitting up, they are taking a break

  25-08-2015 10:05
  
  Band members of 1D take to twitter to respond to reports they are set to go their separate ways in March 2016
  
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• Morning news headlines: FTSE suffers fall-out of China's 'Black Monday', Four Britons die in Canada sightseeing plane crash

  25-08-2015 10:00
  
  The latest news from around the world
  
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• One Direction - Liam Payne says: 'We are NOT splitting up'

  25-08-2015 09:23
  
  Wolverhampton star insists there is 'much more to come' from world's biggest band
  
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• Kapow! Batman pulled over by West Midlands Police

  25-08-2015 08:34
  
  Driver dressed as superhero booked for having no licence or insurance
  
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• Balsall Heath Mosque to be extended in £7.5 million redevelopment scheme

  25-08-2015 07:30
  
  Sports centre, shop and apartments also included in planning application for KSIMC Mosque site on Clifton Road
  
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• Theresa May: Birmingham Mail 'binds great city of Brum together'.

  25-08-2015 01:01
  
  Home Secretary arrives in Birmingham to give key speech about counter extremism
  
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• Most read: Nightclub shut down, One Direction star's message, Banksy rumours

  25-08-2015 00:41
  
  Catch up on last night's big stories with our roundup of the most read from Monday, August 24
  
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• Summer Album #25: Lithuanian traffic cop Maria Kazanovic

  25-08-2015 00:00
  Maria Kazanovic makes a guest appearance in our Summer Photo Album having made the West Midlands her second home on operations tackling foreign criminals in the UK.The 34-year-old is a familiar face during Operation Trivium - a national purge on overseas crooks that’s run from Edgbaston - and in June’s latest offensive played her part in helping British police arrest around 800 crime suspects.
  
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• Summer Album #24: PC Rob Pedley - “deglamourizing" gang culture in schools

  25-08-2015 00:00
  PC Rod Pedley is the brains behind a West Midlands Police school project that’s steering teenagers away from violent crime and “deglamourizing" gang culture.The “Precious Lives" project was launched in 2011 and to date has reached more than 80,000 pupils across the region. It features moving talks from Marcia Shakespeare, mother of Letisha Shakespeare who was shot dead in 2003 in a gang shooting crossfire, and Alison Cope whose son Joshua Ribera was murdered in a Selly Oak
  
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• Police appeal for missing Wolverhampton man

  25-08-2015 00:00
  Police in Wolverhampton are appealing for help to trace a vulnerable man who has been missing from his home since 10am this morning (Tuesday 15 August).David Walters, aged 68, left his address in Walpole Street, Whitmore Reans at 10am  and hasn’t been since.
  
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• Gun seized from suspected Northfield burglars

  25-08-2015 00:00
  Five men have been arrested and a firearm seized after officers chased down suspected Northfield burglars.A group of men from an MG Rover were spotted acting suspiciously around a Ford Mondeo at around 3pm last Friday (22 August) on Bartley Drive and when approached by officers ran away.They were chased through gardens and streets before being stopped by police on Cromwell Lane and checks on the Mondeo revealed that it had been stolen from a burglary on Maas Road some six days earlier, on 16 Aug
  
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• Four sought in Sandwell drug dealing probe

  25-08-2015 00:00
  Detectives investigating suspected drug dealers and criminals working in Sandwell have released images of three people they want to speak to as part of the on-going probe.Codenamed Spring Safer Six, the intelligence-led policing operation was launched in April following concerns from locals about people dealing drugs in the borough and addicts committing crimes to fuel their addiction.
  
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• Callous bigamist jailed after WMP fraud cops exposed his lies

  25-08-2015 00:00
  A bigamist who plundered his wife’s disability benefits while she lay terminally ill in a care home – and secretly married a Russian woman having “erased his wife from his past” – has been jailed after West Midlands Police exposed his lies.Anthony Foley’s wife of 24 years was admitted to a care home in 2006. Within six months cruel Foley, from Erdington, stopped visiting her and over the next six years withdrew almost £30,000 in state incapacit
  
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• 76-year-old model rescued by Coventry Magpies

  25-08-2015 00:00
  Officers have successfully worked ‘in tandem’ with a married couple to return a prized bicycle that was stolen from a Coventry church.The Claud Butler cycle, a make that was used by athletes at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, had been sent to the Jesus Army in Coventry for some much needed maintenance by owners Colin Ridley and his wife Huan.The couple sent the 76-year-old model to the church’s ‘Re-Cycle bike maintenance group’ as the brakes needed repairing.
  
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