Solihull news

• WATCH: New video of dominatrix walking man through Birmingham streets on a lead

  03-02-2016 22:00
  
  Councillor to complain to police, as family man reveals how he filmed shocking scenes on his mobile
  
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• Ahmad Nawaz: Taliban attack survivor warns Birmingham pupils against radicalism

  03-02-2016 22:00
  
  Teenager shot in Pakistan says children should stay away from Syria and fight for their education during visit to Rockwood Academy
  
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• Birmingham Central Mosque DID hear forced marriage case says women's group - days after its denial

  03-02-2016 20:00
  
  Victim, 18, had been forced to marry cousin in Pakistan but had marriage annulled at Sharia divorce hearing based at mosque
  
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• MP tells Central Mosque trustees to 'consider positions' and hold elections to allow women to sit on board

  03-02-2016 19:40
  
  Muslim MP Khalid Mahmood defends women's rights campaigner Shaista Gohir after mosque rubbished complaints about Chairman Muhammad Afzal
  
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• Row over lions at Broad Street restaurant Zara's

  03-02-2016 18:20
  
  The Victorian Society has spoken out after two lions have been added to the entrance of the Grade II-listed Zara’s restaurant
  
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• Police chief says Pegida march will hit neighbourhood policing

  03-02-2016 18:00
  
  Tommy Robinson group to march from Birmingham International railway station on Saturday
  
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• Pictures: Sir Jack Hayward's former estate for sale at £10 million

  03-02-2016 17:51
  
  Country home in West Sussex is for sale following the famous Wolves owner's death
  
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• Could Danielle Lloyd be planning a leap year proposal?

  03-02-2016 17:45
  
  The former WAG has admitted she could be ready to tie the knot again
  
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• Look: West Midlands burns brightly in the night - picture by Tim Peake

  03-02-2016 17:42
  
  UK Astronaut captures country in stunning shot from orbit
  
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• Two in hospital after van hits car then smashes into tree

  03-02-2016 17:24
  
  Ari ambulance scrambled to incident in Birmingham Road, Hagley
  
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• Birmingham's social care costs to rise by £40 million but carers will still get a pay rise

  03-02-2016 17:00
  
  Council deputy leader Ian Ward says extra two per cent council tax charge will be used to raise pay of care staff
  
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• Midland workers need the EU - but only if I get my deal, says David Cameron

  03-02-2016 16:59
  
  David Cameron agrees with a Birmingham MP that Midland workers need the EU, but says other EU countries must agree to his demands.
  
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• Mum who took kids to Butlins 'planned to join jihadi husband in Syria', court heard

  03-02-2016 16:33
  
  Trainee maths teacher allegedly failed to report that partner was poised to join IS
  
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• Islamic State terror trial collapses

  03-02-2016 16:10
  
  Two Birmingham men were arrested hiding in lorry at Dover
  
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• Watch: Baby unhurt as car overturns and careers across M5

  03-02-2016 15:37
  
  Astonishing escape after motorway crash which spent sparks flying
  
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• Carluccio's restaurant announced as part of Solihull town centre renaissance - Birmingham Mail

  03-02-2016 15:03 via
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  Carluccio's restaurant announced as part of Solihull town centre renaissance
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  Solihull is to get a giant Carluccio's restaurant as part of wide-ranging plans to transform part of the town centre. The Italian restaurant, which already has venues in Brindleyplace and Grand Central, will front a new four-storey building at the Mell ...and more »
  

• Romanian pickpocket who wore special 'crime trousers' stole 33 phones at Libertines gig

  03-02-2016 13:50
  
  He was rumbled when victim tracked him with iPhone app
  
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• Pancake Day 2016: Birmingham's bizarre Shrove Tuesday traditions revealed

  03-02-2016 13:00
  
  Find out some of the weird and wonderful folklore linked to Pancake Day in the Midlands. Anyone remember the sound of the Pancake Bell?
  
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• Lord Lucan's son granted death certificate 42 years after peer vanished

  03-02-2016 13:00
  
  Lord Lucan vanished after his nanny was found murdered at the family home in central London on November 7, 1974
  
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• Karl Ricketts tragedy: Scores of tributes to the 'perfect gentleman'

  03-02-2016 12:30
  
  Young dad collapsed at home on Sunday
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at February 3 in years gone by

  03-02-2016 11:39
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on February 3.
  
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• Pictures: Olbury Canal through time

  03-02-2016 11:29
  
  This week we are celebrating the Midlands' man-made waterways that played such a big part in our industrial past. Today it's the turn of the canal running through Oldbury
  
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• Mothers and sons among more than 60 jailed in massive drugs and crime blitz

  03-02-2016 11:09
  
  There were so many defendants that sentencing took a fortnight
  
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• Fourth Brit Awards appearance for Rihanna

  03-02-2016 10:50
  
  Organisers confirmed the appearance with a tweet: "Surprise. Rihanna is performing at #BRITs 2016! We. Cannot. Deal."
  
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• The morning news headlines: PM to set out details of EU reform deal; World leaders urged to back £5.48bn deal to help Syrian refugees

  03-02-2016 10:45
  
  PM TO SET OUT DETAILS OF EU REFORM DEAL
  
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• Prostitutes, madrassas, bins and Broad Street: Five things from full council

  03-02-2016 10:41
  
  Local government correspondent Neil Elkes' rundown of this month's Birmingham City Council full council meeting
  
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• Watch: 'Financial dominatrix' walks client through Alum Rock on all fours like a dog

  03-02-2016 10:01
  
  Bizarre video has been watched more than 500,000 times
  
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• Sheldon holidaymaker found dead on sunbed in Ibiza in heatstroke tragedy

  03-02-2016 07:30
  
  Salesman Neil Murphy, 43, died on first full day on holiday isle in August
  
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• Oscott parents 'swore at police and confronted residents' in schools parking row

  03-02-2016 07:30
  
  Local councillor Keith Linnecor has arranged urgent meeting over child safety concerns
  
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• Boundary Commission rejects meeting over ward changes in Hall Green, Erdington and Moseley

  03-02-2016 07:30
  
  Birmingham city council leader John Clancy wanted to push case for the many communities unhappy at the new council ward proposals
  
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• Public ignored in decision to create Greater Birmingham mayor, inquiry warns

  03-02-2016 01:01
  
  A House of Commons investigation calls for more devolution but warns the public has been ignored in the decision to create a regional combined authority and mayor
  
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• Most read: Body found in car boot, warring gangs revealed, new mosque images

  03-02-2016 00:09
  
  Catch up on last night's big stories with our roundup of the most read from Tuesday, February 2
  
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• Families among those jailed in drug crime blitz

  03-02-2016 00:00
  
  Entire families are among 62 people and sentenced to almost a century behind bars in a Sandwell blitz on drug dealers and criminals.Mothers and sons, partners, brothers and brothers-in-law as well as cousins are among those made to pay for dealing drugs, handling stolen goods and other crimes. 
  
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• Custody Watch: No let-up in pursuit of drink-drivers

  03-02-2016 00:00
  
  West Midlands Police’s Christmas drink drive blitz caught 176 people behind the wheel while over the limit – and as our latest Custody Watch reveals, there’s no let-up in the force’s determination to get dangerous drivers off the region’s streets.There are currently three motorists being held in West Midlands Police cells on suspicion of drink driving, including one man whose breathalyser reading indicated he was almost three times the legal limit.Elsewhere, a 54-ye
  
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