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• Most read: New schools bomb scare, Lord Mayor-elect could quit, benefits cheat

  26-01-2016 23:41
  
  Catch up on last night's big stories with our roundup of the most read from Tuesday, January 26
  
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• Inspirational Solihull businesswomen offer help to others aiming to launch their company - Solihull Observer

  26-01-2016 21:02 via
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  Inspirational Solihull businesswomen offer help to others aiming to launch their company
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  A TRIO of inspirational Solihull businesswomen have joined forces to help budding bakers and wannabe business owners start their own company. Hayley Sheldon, who launched her business to help overcome her depression, has teamed up with Nicolette ...
  

• Hodge Hill benefits cheat who claimed he could barely walk, climbed ten flights of stairs!

  26-01-2016 20:00
  
  Tariq Aslam, 47, falsely pocketed £67,000 over an eight-year period
  
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• Furious parents slam teacher strike at Small Heath School

  26-01-2016 19:00
  
  Parents have raised concerns over their children's education after nine-day walkout
  
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• Muhammad Afzal on brink of quitting as Lord Mayor elect after damning audio proved David Cameron attack

  26-01-2016 18:32
  
  Labour leader John Clancy urges councillor to consider position after he labelled Prime Minister an Islamophobe
  
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• Schools bomb hoax drama: Russian Twitter group claims responsibility

  26-01-2016 17:35
  
  Schools in London, Cornwall, and Paris also evacuated after group said it wanted to cause 'mayhem'
  
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• New school bomb hoax alert: Police probe links between 14 alerts nationwide

  26-01-2016 16:13
  
  Council bosses back headteachers who decided to shut after second security scare in a week
  
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• Pietanic owner appeals for information after van containing 'whole livelihood' stolen

  26-01-2016 16:00
  
  Gourmet pie van stolen from Digbeth at the weekend sparks social media search
  
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• Comment: Why Muhammad Afzal should not be the next Lord Mayor

  26-01-2016 15:22
  
  Birmingham Mail calls for council leader John Clancy to veto nomination after Prevent protest meeting comments
  
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• Listen: Damning audio which proves future Lord Mayor Muhammad Afzal called David Cameron an Islamophobe

  26-01-2016 15:20
  
  Central Mosque Chairman also questions Syria terror suspect claims at protest meeting about Prevent and Ofsted madrassas inspection plans
  
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• Listen: Damning audio which proves future Lord Mayor Muhammad Afzal called David Cameron an Islamaphobe

  26-01-2016 15:20
  
  Central Mosque Chairman also questions Syria terror suspect claims at protest meeting about Prevent and Ofsted madrassas inspection plans
  
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• Walsall Manor Hospital: Boss admits it has not done a good enough job for patients

  26-01-2016 14:18
  
  But he pledges better management support for hard working staff
  
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• Failing hospital boss admits it has not done a good enough job for patients

  26-01-2016 14:18
  
  But he pledges better management support for hard working staff
  
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• Kerrie Hewitt: Chelmsley Wood mum run over by her own car

  26-01-2016 14:17
  
  Friends and relatives raise £5k for her funeral in memory of 'loving and caring' mother
  
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• New apartments officially opened in North Solihull - Birmingham Mail

  26-01-2016 13:07 via
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  New apartments officially opened in North Solihull
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  The 40-home scheme has been built as part of the North Solihull Regeneration project and is designed for the over 55s. Shares; Comments. Get daily news by email. Invalid e-mail. Subscribe Thanks for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later.
  

• New apartments officially opened in North Solihull

  26-01-2016 12:57
  
  The 40-home scheme has been built as part of the North Solihull Regeneration project and is designed for the over 55s.
  
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• Gambia honour for Solihull college staff after £20000 raised for school - Birmingham Mail

  26-01-2016 12:51 via
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  Gambia honour for Solihull college staff after £20000 raised for school
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  Kind-hearted staff at The Sixth Form College, Solihull have been honoured by a town in The Gambia after raising more than £20,000 for a school in the country. Shares; Comments. Get daily news by email. Invalid e-mail. Subscribe Thanks for subscribing!
  

• Solihull ice rink parking fee sparks anger from pensioners - Birmingham Mail

  26-01-2016 12:49 via
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  Solihull ice rink parking fee sparks anger from pensioners
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  Pensioners have criticised the new owners of Solihull's popular ice-rink after free car parking was withdrawn without warning. Shares; Comments. Get daily news by email. Invalid e-mail. Subscribe Thanks for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again ...
  

• Solihull ice rink parking fee sparks anger from pensioners

  26-01-2016 12:49
  
  Pensioners have criticised the new owners of Solihull's popular ice-rink after free car parking was withdrawn without warning.
  
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• West Midlands Police fined £50k after counter-terror cop's trigger finger is sliced off

  26-01-2016 12:43
  
  Horrific accident saw him quit his job
  
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• Gambia honour for Solihull college staff after £20,000 raised for school

  26-01-2016 12:40
  
  Kind-hearted staff at The Sixth Form College, Solihull have been honoured by a town in The Gambia after raising more than £20,000 for a school in the country.
  
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• Peter Price death: Speeding hit-and-run driver who lied to police is jailed over Hagley Road West crash

  26-01-2016 12:14
  
  Omar Tariq's cover story was backed up by his girlfriend
  
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• See former Aston Villa goalkeeper David James take on Samantha Cameron in Sport Relief Bake Off

  26-01-2016 12:03
  
  Ex Villa star rises to the challenge on celebrity Bake Off show on Wednesday - in partnership with Sport Relief
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at January 26 in years gone by

  26-01-2016 11:34
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on January 26.
  
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• Look how Birmingham bore the brunt of German raids in 1940s

  26-01-2016 11:20
  
  This week we turn the clock back on a different decade in Birmingham, today it's the 1940s.
  
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• Six schools evacuated in security alerts in Birmingham and the Black Country

  26-01-2016 10:49
  
  Police say there is no 'credible threat' to the calls
  
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• Storm Jonas heads for UK raising new flood fears

  26-01-2016 09:09
  
  Large parts of the UK are braced for a deluge of rain which could pour more misery on communities still reeling from flooding after Christmas.
  
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• The morning news headlines: NHS helpline 'not sensitive enough' to detect deadly child illnesses; Emergency decontamination units used in flood defence work axed

  26-01-2016 08:56
  
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• West Midlands Police Commissioner in talks over merger with fire service

  26-01-2016 07:30
  
  The Home Office is changing the law to allow police and fire services to become a single employer led by police commissioners, but unions say the plan is dangerous.
  
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• Walsall Manor Hospital to be put into special measures following damning inspection

  26-01-2016 07:30
  
  Watchdog found “serious problems”  with patient care, including staffing levels in A&E and maternity
  
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• Tragedy as Castle Bromwich stage school member Joanne Hipkiss dies, aged just 17

  26-01-2016 07:30
  
  Tributes paid to much-loved Tamworth teenager following sudden death
  
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• MP demands help for elderly after winter deaths double in the West Midlands

  26-01-2016 07:30
  
  MP calls for better home insulation after official figures show 4,400 people died "needlessly" in the West Midlands last winter
  
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• West Midlands Police fined for health and safety breach

  26-01-2016 00:00
  
  West Midlands Police has been fined £50,000 at Birmingham Crown Court today (26 January) after charges were brought against the force for breaching health and safety legislation.The action by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) followed an incident in July 2014, when a firearms officer suffered a severed finger while using machinery at the force’s armoury.
  
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• School bomb scare calls “no credible threat”

  26-01-2016 00:00
  
  Police are investigating calls made to six schools in the West Midlands this morning (Jan 26) making bomb threats – but intelligence experts insist there is no credible threat.Calls were made in quick succession at around 9am to four schools in Sandwell, one in Dudley and one in south Birmingham.
  
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• Police probe pie van theft

  26-01-2016 00:00
  
  Police are appealing for sightings of a retro street catering van that was stolen over the weekend from a storage facility in Birmingham. The distinctive brown and cream transit - with the word Pietanic written down the side - is understood to have been towed away from a storage unit in Sherlock Street, Highgate, sometime between 11.30pm on Saturday night and 10am on Monday morning (25 Jan). 
  
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• Police hunt continues for machete attack suspect

  26-01-2016 00:00
  
  Police continue to appeal for witnesses to come forward following a machete attack that left a Birmingham man with serious injuries.Officers were called to Tile Cross Road just after 8.10am yesterday (25 January) following reports that a 50-year-old man had been attacked with a machete. He suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment.
  
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• Jail for Coventry drug dealer who had sawn-off shotgun under bed

  26-01-2016 00:00
  
  A Coventry drug dealer who had an axe in his car and a sawn-off shotgun with nine live rounds hidden under his bed has been jailed for eight years and eight months. Jamie Owen, from Pinnock Place in Tile Hill, was arrested on 5 August last year after being seen running away from the scene of a disturbance on Villiers Street.
  
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• Crime down on public transport in the West Midlands over festive period

  26-01-2016 00:00
  
  A Christmas crime crackdown on public transport in the West Midlands is being hailed a success after a reduction in recorded offences over the festive period.There were 46 fewer victims of crime during Operation Snow 2015 – which lasts for six weeks and sees high-visibility police patrols on the bus, tram and train network – compared to the previous year.
  
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