Solihull news

• Schoolgirl in 'Facebook blackmail threat from student who abused her'

  09-09-2015 22:00
  
  Suspect arrested after 14-year-old claimed he threatened to release abuse video online
  
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• Rainbow nightclub keeps its licence after promising to search OWN security staff for weapons

  09-09-2015 22:00
  
  Venue had licence suspended last month after police produced CCTV footage of brutal attack
  
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• Appeal over missing Walsall teenager Ashika Yates

  09-09-2015 22:00
  
  Police looking for 17-year-old who has not been seen since leaving home in Abingdon Way on September 5
  
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• Trio charged over false police kidnap plot

  09-09-2015 21:00
  
  Three men including a serving policeman charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over threat to kidnap officer
  
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• Opinion: Delaying starting school? Let common sense prevail

  09-09-2015 20:00
  
  Education Correspondent Emma McKinney applauds Minister Nick Gibb for vowing to close a policy loophole which is leaving primary pupils missing a year of school
  
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• Forget Indian summer - temperatures could hover near freezing on Saturday night

  09-09-2015 20:00
  
  Mercury could fall to just 1 or 2C - with heavy rain forecast for next week
  
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• Metro Mayor: "show us the money first" West Midlands council leaders tell Government

  09-09-2015 19:00
  
  West Midlands leaders will agree to Boris Johnson-style mayor in return for unbeatable devolution deal from Government
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II pictured in the Midlands during her record-breaking 63 year reign

  09-09-2015 17:59
  
  Archive images show Britain and Commonwealth's longest serving monarch in Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull throughout history
  
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• Award-winning police officer faces jail after admitting child sex offences

  09-09-2015 17:48
  
  Sergeant Christopher Cambray, 42, was previously named Rookie of the Year
  
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• Jewellery shopping channel Rocks & Co launches in Digbeth

  09-09-2015 17:40
  
  Rocks & Co broadcasts live from Fazeley Studios
  
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• Summer babies win right to reception places aged five thanks to Mail campaign

  09-09-2015 17:00
  
  Government to close loophole that saw some kids forced straight into Year 1 - skipping reception
  
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• Birmingham MP to monitor action against terror suspects on UK 'kill list'

  09-09-2015 17:00
  
  A city MP will see highly classified documents as she monitors British action against terror suspects - including a British man killed by an RAF drone - on behalf of Parliament
  
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• First signs of autumn appearing in Birmingham and the Midlands

  09-09-2015 16:58
  
  Share your pictures showing evidence of the changing seasons
  
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• Sutton Coldfield town council first election in May

  09-09-2015 16:49
  
  More Birmingham communities will be encouraged to come forward with plans for their own parish councils
  
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• 14 sad truths Birmingham drivers must face when the school holidays are over

  09-09-2015 14:19
  
  A summer of open roads is over as 'the school run' returns
  
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• Balsall Heath brawl sees three men stabbed and nine arrested

  09-09-2015 14:17
  
  Police alerted to man knifed in the buttocks in Siskin Drive
  
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• Ministers tell cash-strapped West Midlands Police: 'Buy cheaper belts'

  09-09-2015 13:14
  
  Row as police forces facing massive budget cuts are told to spend less on basic equipment
  
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• Refugees and migrants made Birmingham great - without them the city withers

  09-09-2015 12:51
  
  Birmingham Heritage Week teaches us that the city has always rolled out the welcome mat to newcomers and grown as a result
  
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• Landlord Chris Foxall offers free flat to ex-soldier

  09-09-2015 12:27
  
  Generous dad picks tenant after being inundated with responses to heart-warming offer
  
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• United Patriots cancel Walsall protest after EDL 'flop' turnout

  09-09-2015 12:05
  
  Community group welcomes decision and claims interest in far-right demos dwindling
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at September 9 in years gone by

  09-09-2015 11:11
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on September 9
  
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• OAP hurt as house gutted in blaze

  09-09-2015 10:05
  
  He was rushed to hospital after 4.30am fire
  
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• British Airways plane catches fire in Las Vegas

  09-09-2015 09:43
  
  Passengers escape on emergency slides as 14 are injured
  
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• Bambu club apologises for telling black jobhunter: 'We need less Afro Caribbean staff'

  09-09-2015 09:30
  
  Bosses blame former worker who accessed its Facebook account
  
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• British Airways passengers flee plane after engine fire

  09-09-2015 09:07
  
  Emergency slides used as engine fire breaks out on a London-bound plane preparing to take off from Las Vegas
  
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• Morning news headlines: Queen to become Britain's longest-reigning monarch, More Anti-IS air strikes could target terrorist 'kill list'

  09-09-2015 08:22
  
  The latest news from around the world
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II's life in pictures as she becomes the longest reigning monarch

  09-09-2015 08:00
  
  The Queen overtook her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria today as she became the UK's longest serving monarch
  
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• Solihull doctor denies NHS fraud - Birmingham Mail

  09-09-2015 07:32 via
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  Solihull doctor denies NHS fraud
  Birmingham Mail
  A hospital psychiatrist from Solihull is to stand trial over allegations he defrauded the NHS by doing private work while he was supposedly off sick. Dr Nawshad Suleman, who was based at St Michael's psychiatric hospital in Warwick, is also accused of ...and more »
  

• The Handsworth riots began 30 years ago today

  09-09-2015 07:30
  
  They were sparked after a man was arrested for a minor motoring offence
  
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• Solihull doctor denies NHS fraud

  09-09-2015 07:30
  
  Nawshad Suleman is accused of doing private work while he was off sick
  
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• Tragedy leads to national first with creation of new WMP family liaison unit

  09-09-2015 00:00
  Today West Midlands Police launch a new department which is the first of its kind in the UK.
    
  The force has worked with bereaved families to develop a new Family Liaison Support Unit, providing support and guidance to the families of victims of road traffic collisions. 
  
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• Three charged over false and malicious police officer kidnap plot

  09-09-2015 00:00
  Three men, including a Birmingham Police officer, have been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.PC Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, a 29-year-old working for Birmingham West & Central police unit, was charged this afternoon (Wed 9 Sept) with two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and two counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office. He has been suspended from duty with immediate effect.
  
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• Police appeal to trace missing Walsall girl

  09-09-2015 00:00
  Police are urgently seeking the whereabouts of a 17-year-old girl who has gone missing from her Walsall home.Ashika Yates – who has never been missing before - left her home on Abingdon Way, Bloxwich, on Saturday 5 September at around 11:30am.
  
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• Most read: Levi Blu-Cassin legal battle, racist thug, pregnant woman row

  09-09-2015 00:00
  
  Catch up on last night's big stories with our roundup of the most read from Tuesday, September 8
  
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