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• Watch: Appalling footage as thug keys 30 cars at Birmingham garage

  26-04-2016 19:30
  
  Vandal scrapes scratches across every vehicle in used car lot in attack
  
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• Watch: Robbie Savage's old house - up for sale for £1.65 million

  26-04-2016 18:45
  
  Six bedroom Georgian mansion in Warwickshire formerly owned by Blues star on the market
  
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• See inside Robbie Savage's old house - up for sale for £1.65 million

  26-04-2016 18:45
  
  Six bedroom Georgian mansion in Warwickshire formerly owned by Blues star on the market
  
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• Junior doctors strike rally: More than 500 medics turn out for Birmingham protest

  26-04-2016 18:24
  
  Calls for Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to resigns as walk-out set to move into second day
  
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• Senior Sikhs defend machine gun banner at Birmingham Vaisakhi as symbol of revolution

  26-04-2016 17:50
  
  Dozens of responses have flooded in after a poster with a machine gun and the words “Khalistan Zindabad” was criticised by a city MP
  
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• Lotto loser Susanne Hinte lands a £20k new car - on the taxpayer

  26-04-2016 16:45
  
  Grandma who claimed she had won £33million jackpot is leasing sports motor via Disability Living Allowance 
  
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• Birmingham's first 'dry bar' part of £1m push to combat drug and alcohol abuse

  26-04-2016 16:30
  
  Steven Dixon, who beat a 15-year addiction with alcohol and drugs to establish city charity Changes UK, has unveiled a new bar free from alcohol
  
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• Snow stops play! Cricket halted as wintery weather sweeps into city

  26-04-2016 14:15
  
  Unseasonal flurries in Birmingham in late April
  
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• Administrators appointed to Austin Reed

  26-04-2016 14:15
  
  AlixPartners will now lead the hunt to find a buyer for beleaguered high street fashion and tailoring chain
  
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• Here's how West Midland MPs voted on whether to let child refugees come to the UK

  26-04-2016 13:36
  
  Here's how MPs voted on proposals to let 3,000 child refugees without parents to care for them come into the UK
  
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• West Midlands Ambulance celebrates fall in number of complaints - Solihull Observer

  26-04-2016 13:17 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  West Midlands Ambulance celebrates fall in number of complaints
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  WEST MIDLANDS Ambulance Service is celebrating after new figures reveal the number of compliments received by the Trust rose last year whilst the number of complaints fell. In 2015, the trust received 1,279 contacts of appreciation, up 4 per cent from ...
  
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• Birmingham Mail Nostalgia - A look back at April 26 in years gone by

  26-04-2016 13:03
  
  Birmingham Mail Nostalgia: A look back at some historical events that happened on April 26.
  
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• Football fans in Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed, jury rules

  26-04-2016 12:52
  
  Longbridge worker Andrew Brookes died in the tragedy
  
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• Look: Tom Adams' 40 years (oh, yes it is!) of meeting Birmingham's panto stars

  26-04-2016 12:48
  
  Hall Green pensioner Tom Adams has racked up an enviable list of celebrity names that he's been able to meet and shake hands with over the years.
  
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• Tributes flood in for talented entertainer Trevor T who has died

  26-04-2016 12:18
  
  Trevor, from Northfield, was legendary in the Birmingham nightlife scene and played sessions with Musical Youth
  
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• Solihull's junior doctors walk out of A&E in latest strike over new contracts - Solihull Observer

  26-04-2016 12:14 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Solihull's junior doctors walk out of A&E in latest strike over new contracts
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  JUNIOR doctors in Solihull are today taking part in the first all-out strike in the NHS' history. As part of the ongoing dispute between the Government's Department of Health and the British Medical Association (BMA) junior doctors will not be working ...and more »
  
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• How you can save money on recycling your garden waste

  26-04-2016 11:50
  
  Check out Birmingham City Council's garden waste tips
  
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• Birmingham’s Vaisakhi celebrations marred by flag supporting terrorist group

  26-04-2016 10:57
  
  A poster with a machine gun and the words “Khalistan Zindabad” – linked to the Khalistan Zindabad Force, went on show in Birmingham
  
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• Birmingham’s Vaisakhi celebrations marred by banner linked to terrorist group

  26-04-2016 10:57
  
  A poster with a machine gun and the words “Khalistan Zindabad” – linked to the Khalistan Zindabad Force, went on show in Birmingham
  
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• Another job threat as Austin Reed set to appoint administrators

  26-04-2016 10:54
  
  Around 1,000 jobs now at risk as historic fashion retailer becomes latest high street name to suffer
  
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• Motorcyclist dies after crash with car in Henley - Solihull Observer

  26-04-2016 10:53 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Motorcyclist dies after crash with car in Henley
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  Paramedics were called to Stratford Road, Wootton Wawen around 8.30pm on Monday where they discovered the male motorcyclist in cardiac arrest following a crash with a car. Ambulance staff and an emergency doctors tried to save the motorcyclist but he ...and more »
  
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• Madeleine McCann investigation could end within the next few months

  26-04-2016 10:45
  
  Madeleine vanished at the age of three while on holiday with her parents in Portugal in 2007 and despite a high-profile hunt, no trace has ever been found.
  
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• Carer stole from vulnerable man to fund USA trip to see online lover

  26-04-2016 09:17
  
  Care assistant Sarah Grey took more than £7,000 from victim
  
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• First all-out strike in NHS history to begin

  26-04-2016 09:00
  
  More than 125,000 appointments and operations have been cancelled and will need to be rearranged across England's hospitals as a result of the latest dispute.
  
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• The morning news headlines: Junior doctors to begin first all-out strike in NHS history; Hillsborough inquests jury to deliver verdict

  26-04-2016 08:47
  
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• Borough networking group donates £500 to Acorns - Solihull Observer

  26-04-2016 08:31 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Borough networking group donates £500 to Acorns
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  A BOROUGH networking group has donated £500 to Acorns Children's Hospice after winning a regional competition. BNI Phoenix, who hold weekly meetings at Hogarths Hotel in Dorridge, won the prize after recruiting the most new members of any ...
  
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• Police seize £1.4 million cannabis in just seven days in series of busts

  26-04-2016 07:30
  
  Shocking haul in one week shows scale of problem in Birmingham
  
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• Charity hands out 3,000 grants to desperate Birmingham families

  26-04-2016 07:30
  
  Basic help like a bed for children to sleep in is being provided by a charity.
  
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• Air pollution is 22 times more deadly than car accidents in West Midlands

  26-04-2016 07:30
  
  Experts say local authorities don't have the tools to address the plethora of pollutants in the air we breathe
  
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• 4,000 appointments cancelled ahead of two-day junior doctors' strike

  26-04-2016 06:50
  
  Operations and appointments have been postponed en masse ahead of the walk out on today and tomorrow
  
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• Fury in Selly Park as developer expands controversial student apartment scheme

  26-04-2016 06:00
  
  Five extra studio apartments wanted in development of historic Beechenhurst house
  
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• Tattoo artist jailed for Coventry biker gang shooting 20 years ago

  26-04-2016 00:00
  
  A man who shot a DJ in the face after being asked to leave a pub in Coventry 20 years ago has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of wounding.Anthony Stephens, who was a member of biker gang ‘The Outlaws’, fired the bullet at his victim at The Plough on London Road on the morning of Sunday 20 October 1996.It ricocheted around the then 31-year-old’s skull and became lodged in his brain where it has remained ever since, causing long-term damage.Stephens fled to I
  
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• Soldier charged with supplying cocaine in Wolverhampton 

  26-04-2016 00:00
  
  A serving soldier in the British Army has been charged with three counts of supplying Class A drugs in Wolverhampton last year.Oliver Bramwell, aged 22, of Rosemount Gardens, Ackleton, is accused of providing cocaine to three men on the morning of 13 December 2015 after a night out in the city.One of the men, Kieran Bainbridge, aged 20, collapsed in the Moon under the Water on Lichfield Street. He was in a coma at hospital and died three days later.A coroner subsequently ruled his death was caus
  
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• Carer jailed for stealing cash from vulnerable man

  26-04-2016 00:00
  
  A carer has been jailed for stealing cash from a vulnerable man in Dudley to fund a trip to America to meet someone she had met online.Sarah Grey was working as an assistant care co-ordinator for Dudley Council when she was appointed to ensure that the 50-year-old’s finances were appropriately looked after.But instead of helping manage his money, the 44-year-old encouraged him to take out a loan and then pocketed the money for herself.Grey, from Lapwood Avenue, Kingswinford, stole more tha
  
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