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• Videos of the week: Supermarket rat, library demolition, stunned Blues fan

  12-02-2016 23:00
  
  Take a look back at our top videos on the site from the past seven days
  
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• Most shared this week: Homeless war hero, Glynn Purnell hits back over review, child rapist flees abroad

  12-02-2016 23:00
  
  Check out our most shared content on the Birmingham Mail website from the last seven days
  
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• Boss of arson-hit Sparkhill firm: 'I'm the victim of pure jealousy'

  12-02-2016 22:00
  
  Zahid Khan, 29, spoke out after attack at Bulls and Horses Auto Centre in Stratford Road, 
  
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• The perfect match! Fiancee saves life of bride-to-be by donating liver

  12-02-2016 20:45
  
  Clare Beams and sweetheart donor Paul Jones now set to tie the knot after operation
  
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• Gay First Dates star punched by thugs in homophobic attack

  12-02-2016 20:00
  
  Daniel May, 26, has now set up home in Birmingham after being beaten up in London 
  
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• Former Birmingham City star Tasered after swinging knives at cops

  12-02-2016 18:30
  
  Ex-striker was 'wild with rage' after taking cocaine
  
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• Daughter of Birmingham Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell calls for Jeremy Hunt to be fired

  12-02-2016 18:30
  
  Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has "alienated an entire generation of junior doctors" says the daughter of Birmingham Tory MP and former Cabinet Minister Andrew Mitchell
  
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• Potholes, the wait for Midland Metro and Camp Hill railway: six things from Brum's transport watchdog

  12-02-2016 18:00
  
  Six highlights as Labour's transport and economy chief gets a two-hour grilling from a council watchdog committee
  
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• Police hunt cowardly burglars who brutally attacked family's pet dog

  12-02-2016 17:34
  
  Bedlington Terrier Mila was repeatedly kicked in head during Halesowen raid
  
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• Shots fired in Thornhill Road, Handsworth: Residents tell of their terror

  12-02-2016 17:29
  
  Police seal off street after 12.30am gunfire
  
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• Birmingham grammar school pupils score the city's best A-levels

  12-02-2016 17:00
  
  Selective schools have beaten colleges, comprehensives and independents
  
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• Dealer who threw drugs out of his window in police raid is jailed for four years

  12-02-2016 16:54
  
  Bags of heroin and crack landed on the floor and in gutter
  
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• Man shot in Hawkesley in another Birmingham gun crime

  12-02-2016 16:03
  
  He was blasted in the chest and leg in late-night attack
  
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• Lollipop ladies: Same time, next year unless council and schools step up

  12-02-2016 15:49
  
  Highly valued school crossing patrol service must not be placed in the firing line again
  
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• City's lollipop ladies saved from job axe for second year running

  12-02-2016 15:18
  
  Council in u-turn over plans to cut 180 school crossing patrols
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at February 12 in years gone by

  12-02-2016 13:12
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on February 12.
  
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• The gruesome discovery of bodies buried beneath The Bullring

  12-02-2016 13:09
  
  We reveal the gruesome discovery of a possible double murder buried beneath Birmingham's showpiece Bullring shopping centre.
  
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• M6 Toll up for sale for £2 billion

  12-02-2016 12:57
  
  Pay-as-you-drive route has failed to attract enough drivers since 2003 opening
  
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• Birmingham schools are "desperate" for maths, science and English teachers, head reveals

  12-02-2016 12:00
  
  As the Birmingham Mail and charity Teach First campaigns to recruit 70 new trainees, we speak to a head teacher and those who have made the leap to discover what makes a good teacher.
  
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• Gang dismantled stolen high value cars and sold them in bits on eBay

  12-02-2016 11:49
  
  Trio were jailed for total of more than 11 years for scam
  
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• Watch: Moment grieving brother, 61, attacked by two men in pub

  12-02-2016 11:28
  
  Reiss Johnson and Daniel Stirling have been jailed over vicious attack
  
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• Look: Brum from above! Pictures taken of city from police helicopter

  12-02-2016 11:09
  
  Shots show city from a few thousand feet up on clear day
  
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• Akhtar Javeed murder: 18-year-old arrested and car recovered

  12-02-2016 10:56
  
  Detectives had been hunting for a silver Renault Megane
  
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• Devastated parents in tears at funeral of little Ralphie Plant

  12-02-2016 09:42
  
  10-week-old Raphie died eight days after being discharged from hospital 
  
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• Double arson attack on Solihull tyre business on same night - Birmingham Mail

  12-02-2016 09:34 via
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  Double arson attack on Solihull tyre business on same night
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  Arsonists torched a tyre business in Sparkhill twice in one night after failing in their first attempt. Fire crews from Billesley Fire Station were called to the Bulls and Horses Auto Centre, off Stratford Road, at 9pm on Thursday and then 1.30am on ...and more »
  

• Double arson attack on Sparkhill tyre business on same night

  12-02-2016 09:32
  
  Two attempts made to torch Bulls and Horses Auto Centre, off Stratford Road
  
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• Double arson attack on Solihull tyre business on same night

  12-02-2016 09:32
  
  Two attempts made to torch Bulls and Horses Auto Centre, off Stratford Road
  
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• Read Birmingham doctor's shocking Facebook post as he tells Jeremy Hunt how it is on the frontline

  12-02-2016 08:30
  
  City based Rich Bowman lashed out describing being in charge of 100 patients on one shift
  
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• The morning news headlines: World powers work to craft Syria ceasefire; DAvid Cameron to lay out EU reform 'wider agenda' case

  12-02-2016 08:16
  
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• Teachers reveal why they love their jobs in campaign to recruit 70 new trainees in Birmingham

  12-02-2016 07:30
  
  The Birmingham Mail has joined forces with charity Teach First to launch the 'Change Career, Change Lives' campaign
  
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• Man who hid in aircraft loo to smoke hit by fine after crew spotted him

  12-02-2016 07:30
  
  Andrej Tolmaciov sneaked into the toilet to light up on flight to Canaries
  
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• FIFTY rat droppings found in oven at city cafe

  12-02-2016 07:30
  
  Adal Cafe in Stratford Road, Sparkbrook was shut for a fortnight after the discovery
  
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• Taxi drivers claim victory after New Street charges are dropped

  12-02-2016 06:50
  
  The RMT union had been campaigning against what it claims were increased costs for taxi drivers at the newly-redeveloped station
  
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• Most read: Rat filmed in supermarket, honeymoon from hell, Jeremy Kyle divorce

  12-02-2016 06:00
  
  Catch up on last night's big stories with our roundup of the most read from Thursday, February 11
  
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• Two arrested after JLR break-in

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  Police and security staff teamed up to arrest two men who broke into Solihull’s Jaguar Land Rover plant in the early hours of this morning (Feb 12).Officers were directed to the Lode Lane site a few minutes after midnight when security guards reported intruders had breached a perimeter fence.One man was arrested in possession of stolen car keys while another was dragged from behind the wheel of a Land Rover as he tried driving away.
  
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• Police launch Birmingham gun probe after man shot

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  Police are investigating after a man was shot in south Birmingham last night (Thursday).Officers were called to a house address on Redhill Road, Hawkesley at around 10:20pm following reports of a man with gunshot wounds.
  
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• Pair jailed for unprovoked attack on mourner at wake

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  Two men have been jailed for attacking a mourner during a wake at a Solihull pub.Reiss Johnson and Daniel Stirling were sentenced to a combined total of 22 months behind bars for violently assaulting the man who had just attended his brother’s funeral.
  
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• Major investigation underway as woman dragged into car in Coventry

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  A major investigation has been launched after a woman was apparently forced into a car against her will in Coventry this morning (Friday 12 February). It happened at around 11.20am on Foleshill Road, when a blue Audi A4 mounted the kerb and four men got out of the vehicle. 
  
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• Longbridge police and Bournville College team up to prevent theft of vehicle reg plates

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  Officers at Longbridge police station have joined forces with staff and students working at The Garage @ Bournville College to fit anti-tamper screws on customer cars, to tackle problems with number plate theft, and vehicle crime.Many number plates are stolen because a thief is unable to renew their plate for legal reasons and they end up using that of a victim.
  
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• Long jail terms for pair who carried out knife attack at family BBQ

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  Two men who nearly killed a Facebook ‘friend’ during a frenzied knife attack at a family BBQ have both been handed long prison sentences.Hamza Mohumed (pictured) stabbed the man with a double-edged dagger after cornering him in a Coventry garden, while Juma Munyankore joined in with the horror attack on the afternoon of September 11 last year that was witnessed by a six-year-old child.They have been jailed for nine years and four months, and 10 years and nine mont
  
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• Investigation launched following shots fired in Handsworth, Birmingham

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  A road remains closed today (Friday 12 February) as police continue to investigate reports of shots being fired in Handsworth. Officers were called to Thornhill Road, Birmingham just after 12.30am, it is believed that two cars have been damaged with no reports of any injuries. 
  
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• Family dog beaten by burglars in Halesowen

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  Cowardly burglars broke into a house in Halesowen last night (Thursday 11 February) and beat a family dog to within an inch of its life.They struck at the property on Albrighton Road at some point between 6pm and 7.30pm, after 51-year-old Julie Green popped out with her 16-year-old daughter.
  
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• Coventry man jailed for glassing fellow drinker in unprovoked pub attack

  12-02-2016 00:00
  
  A man who glassed a fellow drinker in an unprovoked attack at a Coventry pub has been jailed for six years and eight months after pleading guilty to wounding. Mark Morgan was drunk when he attacked a man in the early hours of Sunday 27 September last year in The Jaguar on Corporation Street. 
  
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