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• Handsworth hammer thug attacked FORTY cars in wrecking spree

  22-02-2016 22:00
  
  Dawid Trojanowski, 25, only stopped when police threatened him with Taser
  
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• Floyd Mayweather scrapes £250,000 Rolls-Royce and shouts: 'He’s gonna kill me!”

  22-02-2016 20:30
  
  Millionaire US boxer took wheel of Phantom after becoming car hire firm's first customer - and was so polite the boss didn't mind him kerbing the car
  
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• Watch: Suspected car thief tries to get into motors at 3am

  22-02-2016 20:00
  
  Police investigating evidence caught on camera in Handsworth Wood
  
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• Grandma, 80, wrongly told she owed council £10,000 after 'benefits overpayment'

  22-02-2016 20:00
  
  Rubery pensioner Margaret Gill wins apology after authority sent her 14 letters on the same day
  
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• Major scheme to install traffic lights in Solihull - Birmingham Mail

  22-02-2016 18:52 via
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  Major scheme to install traffic lights in Solihull
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  A major route in Solihull is due to see improvements including traffic lights and a new controlled crossing point. Shares; Comments. Get daily news by email. Invalid e-mail. Subscribe Thanks for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later ...
  

• West Midlands Police 'faces yet more cuts' as Government moves cash to rural forces

  22-02-2016 18:04
  
  Home Secretary Theresa May refuses to deny reports that rural police forces will receive cash at expense of police in big cities and towns
  
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• Promising young Solihull tennis star makes international debut - Birmingham Mail

  22-02-2016 17:39 via
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  Promising young Solihull tennis star makes international debut
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  A budding young tennis star has made his international debut at the ITF Nairobi International Junior Championships. Charley Gregory, a 14-year-old Solihull School pupil, attended the Kenyan tournament to play in the top 32 following a three set match ...
  

• EU referendum: Does your MP support leaving or staying in the European Union?

  22-02-2016 17:06
  
  We asked Birmingham and West Midlands MPs whether they backed leaving the European Union or wanted to stay in
  
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• Violent crime in Solihull has hit all time high, police reveal - Birmingham Mail

  22-02-2016 17:04 via
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  Violent crime in Solihull has hit all time high, police reveal
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  VIOLENT crime in Solihull has reached record levels and now accounts for one in four of all offences. And domestic homicides and alcohol-related violence in the borough have been highlighted as particular areas of concern by police and councillors.
  

• Violent crime in Solihull has hit all time high, police reveal

  22-02-2016 17:00
  
  Domestic violence and booze-related offences highlighted as areas of concern
  
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• Former professional footballer visits Solihull academy - Birmingham Mail

  22-02-2016 16:09 via
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  Former professional footballer visits Solihull academy
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  Former professional footballer visited Grace Academy Solihull to show students how to achieve their dreams. Shares; Comments. Get daily news by email. Invalid e-mail. Subscribe Thanks for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later. Student ...
  

• New pictures as packed plane veers off Birmingham Airport taxiway

  22-02-2016 16:07
  
  Airbus service veered onto the grass after arriving from Germany
  
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• Former professional footballer visits Solihull academy

  22-02-2016 15:59
  
  Former professional footballer visited Grace Academy Solihull to show students how to achieve their dreams.
  
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• Solihull opticians worker honoured with top award - Birmingham Mail

  22-02-2016 15:57 via
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  Solihull opticians worker honoured with top award
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  A long-serving worker at Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care has been honoured with the company's top accolade. Professional services and training director Jeet Saimbi, who lives in Solihull and is based at the company's Birmingham head office, was ...
  

• MAPPED: See where the six new mini parks planned for Birmingham will be

  22-02-2016 15:51
  
  Six new miniature parks will be created in Birmingham as part of a fund to transform neglected urban spaces. Is one near you?
  
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• JLR Solihull production back to normal following Goodyear Dunlop HQ fire - Tyrepress.com

  22-02-2016 15:42 via
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  JLR Solihull production back to normal following Goodyear Dunlop HQ fire
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  The fire that damaged Goodyear Dunlop's UK headquarters site in Birmingham last week is said to have caused a blip in production at Jaguar Land Rover's Solihull factory, however the vehicle manufacturer states that operations there have fully resumed.
  

• Solihull opticians worker honoured with top award

  22-02-2016 15:40
  
  Long-serving Scrivens Opticians worker has been honoured with the company's top accolade.
  
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• Solihull Theatre group offers '9 to 5' roles for stars - Birmingham Mail

  22-02-2016 15:34 via
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  Solihull Theatre group offers '9 to 5' roles for stars
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  It's time to hit the right note as a Solihull theatre company makes plans to stage a top musical. Following its sell-out performances of Sister Act, members of St Augustine's Musical Theatre Company are now holding auditions for their upcoming November ...and more »
  

• Solihull Theatre group offers '9 to 5' roles for stars

  22-02-2016 15:24
  
  St Augustine's Musical Theatre Company is now holding auditions for their upcoming November 2016 production.
  
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• Bolton Wanderers get extra time in £2 million tax debt winding-up fight

  22-02-2016 15:14
  
  Barrister Hilary Stonefrost, who represented Bolton, had told the judge that moves were afoot to sell shares which would raise £7.5 million.
  
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• Evil dad who left baby daughter with brain injury and 26 fractured ribs is convicted of murder

  22-02-2016 15:11
  
  Tomas Driukas lashed out in 'temper and frustration'
  
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• Solihull to hold its first ever Fashion Week in 2016 - Coventry Telegraph

  22-02-2016 15:02 via
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  Solihull to hold its first ever Fashion Week in 2016
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  Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke - who has become a regular on the BBC One reality show - will launch the event, which is set to take place across four days. The TV celebrity will be compering a VIP event to open the fashion spectacular, which ...
  Strictly star Anton Du Beke coming to Solihull's first ever Fashion WeekBirmingham Mailall 3 news articles »
  

• EU referendum: Birmingham MP quits the 'leave' campaign in protest against focus on immigrants

  22-02-2016 14:45
  
  MP Khalid Mahmood led a campaign to convince black and Asian voters to quit the EU, but he says the 'leave' campaign has become an attack on immigration
  
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• Ian Paterson: Surgeon's trial could be moved out of Midlands

  22-02-2016 14:40
  
  Judge warns of jury selection problem if case stays in Birmingham
  
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• Hockley police gun drama as officer accidentally fires weapon during arrest

  22-02-2016 14:39
  
  Probe launched by watchdog and armed officer taken off frontline duties
  
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• 3,000 homes to transform Birmingham inner city area

  22-02-2016 14:18
  
  Masterplan for 150 acre  Greater Icknield site to include new school, canal side development and public open spaces
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at February 22 in years gone by

  22-02-2016 14:13
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on February 22.
  
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• Look: The day Buffalo Bill rode down New Street

  22-02-2016 14:04
  
  One hundred years ago Buffalo Bill arrived in Birmingham with his travelling show.
  
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• Award-winning Chamberlains fish and chip restaurant taken over by Harry Ramsden's – and customers aren't happy

  22-02-2016 14:00
  
  The Oldbury chippy famous for beef dripping cooked chips is taken over by national chain
  
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• 'One-man crimewave' Japheth Wellington dragged pregnant woman from her Audi

  22-02-2016 12:35
  
  He led police on high-speed chase the wrong way down a dual carriageway
  
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• Mum offered 'bargain' Apple Mac outside Cash Converters loses £500 to thief

  22-02-2016 12:09
  
  She took a picture of man wanted in connection with the crime
  
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• Public hearing into how fatal M6 crash left motorway closed for 24 hours

  22-02-2016 10:58
  
  The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner said it was vital to make sure that lessons are learnt from tragic incident after public outrage
  
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• 18 gun gang members banned from Birmingham's streets

  22-02-2016 10:37
  
  They are barred from part of city centre and spots including Jewellery Quarter
  
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• Trinity Mirror to launch new standalone paper called The New Day

  22-02-2016 09:03
  
  This will be the first new standalone newspaper for 30 years
  
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• The morning news headlines: EU drives rise of extremist parties, Boris Johnson says as he backs Brexit; HSBC reports 1% rise in pre-tax profits

  22-02-2016 09:02
  
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• Moment nurse who traced alcoholic mum and cared for her for nine years met the woman who gave her away

  22-02-2016 07:30
  
  Birmingham district nurse Phyllis Whitsell never revealed that she was her daughter
  
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• Could you teach GCSEs? Take our test to find out

  22-02-2016 07:00
  
  Take our quiz as we campaign to recruit 70 trainee teachers in Birmingham schools
  
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• Birmingham gun crime: Girlfriends, wives and mums asked to help get guns off city streets

  22-02-2016 07:00
  
  Crime Commissioner wants them to back campaign to get guns off street
  
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• RICS Awards pits New Street station against revamped housing estate

  22-02-2016 06:00
  
  David versus Goliath at prestigious annual property awards as Charlemont Farm Estate in West Bromwich takes on the £750m Birmingham Gateway project
  
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• Wolverhampton Just Ramps skate park boosted by Sport Relief

  22-02-2016 01:01
  
  Grandmother tells how skate park in tribute to her son is helping others - in partnership with Sport Relief
  
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• Police appeal after thief stole sons birthday cash

  22-02-2016 00:00
  
  Officers are appealing for information following a distraction-style burglary in Nechells.At 1.15pm on Thursday 4 February, a man - pictured – entered a house on Cattells Grove to sell a laptop to a 33-year-old woman. 
  
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• 'One man crime wave’ jailed for seven years

  22-02-2016 00:00
  
  A masked car-jacker who dragged a heavily pregnant woman from her vehicle has been jailed - after a police investigation linked him to a series of thefts. Japheth Wellington stole the Audi S3 from Walsall Wood as part of a crime spree which lasted almost six months. The victim - who was eight months pregnant - suffered cuts and bruises in the car-jacking on August 21 last year. 
  
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• Man arrested by armed officers in Hockley

  22-02-2016 00:00
  
  A 22 year-old man has been arrested by armed officers in Birmingham over the weekend.The unemployed man from Hockley was arrested for possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear or violence, following a warrant carried out at an address in South Road, Hockley in the early hours of Sunday 21 February.
  
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• “I’m no hero!" says Coventry paperboy who saved pensioners life

  22-02-2016 00:00
  
  A Coventry paperboy whose quick-thinking saved the life of a woman trapped in her burning home says he’s "no hero" as officers honour his actions. Harry Packer was on his newspaper round on 5 April last year when he heard cries for help from one of the houses on Gretna Road in Finham. An elderly woman had tried to boil an electric kettle on a gas hob causing smoke to billow through her home. 
  
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• Dad shook his baby daughter to death

  22-02-2016 00:00
  
  A dad who shook his four-month-old baby to death because she wouldn’t stop crying has been convicted of her murder at Birmingham Crown Court today (22 February). 
    
  Tomas Driukas called an ambulance to his Birmingham home just before 1am on 1 April, after the baby - born three months prematurely - started to have breathing difficulties. She was treated in hospital but died a few hours later.
  
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