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• Crook jailed after card cloning scam at 41 Birmingham cashpoints

  13-05-2016 23:30
  
  Ionut Dimofte, 31, is gang also caused £36,000 of damage
  
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• Solihull schoolboy take to final of the Match Attax World Championship tonight - Solihull Observer

  13-05-2016 21:07 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Solihull schoolboy take to final of the Match Attax World Championship tonight
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  A SOLIHULL schoolboy has reached the final of the 2016 Match Attax World Championship, and will attempt to win the tournament at Stamford Bridge this weekend. Ben Thompson has been playing the card trading game for over four years and could be ...
  
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• Parents cannot be fined for taking children out of school to go on holiday - High Court rules

  13-05-2016 19:06
  
  Jon Platt had 'no case to answer' due to daughter's regular attendance
  
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• Former Birmingham City favourite: My day to day battle with incurable cancer

  13-05-2016 19:04
  
  Blues old boy has prostrate cancer
  
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• Watch: Russell Brand talks of addiction battle as he visits first Birmingham's dry bar

  13-05-2016 18:45
  
  Digbeth's Recovery Central launch impresses comedian turned Hollywood star
  
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• Man stabbed multiple times in Cannon Hill Park attack

  13-05-2016 18:36
  
  Police appeal for witnesses after 32-year-old victim suffers injuries
  
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• Anne Dunkley: Killer nephew jailed for life after brutal death of former teacher

  13-05-2016 18:33
  
  Gareth Emery must serve at least nine years after punching, stamping and attacking aunt with spade
  
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• WATCH: Police bust out their dance moves in viral running man challenge

  13-05-2016 18:00
  
  West Mercia officers get on the beat with Peeler the force mascot in the #runningmanchallenge
  
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• Driving instructor jailed after abusing teenage pupils during lessons

  13-05-2016 18:00
  
  Gary Rolinson, 60, convicted of 13 sexual assaults carried out while he worked 500+ Driving School
  
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• Watch: Friday feeling returns as Cadbury's brings back Crunchie adverts

  13-05-2016 17:55
  
  Watch Cadbury's first Crunchie advert in two decades - it will take you back
  
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• Bird builds nest inside TRAFFIC CONE

  13-05-2016 17:45
  
  Visitors told not to move Great Tits from home at Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens
  
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• Begging MPs, expenses under scrutiny and a whole person who likes Donald Trump: A week in West Midlands politics

  13-05-2016 17:37
  
  A handy round up of the 12 top politics stories from the West Midlands this week
  
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• Everyday sexism: Lecturer blasts Hotel La Tour’s ‘bottom’ hoardings

  13-05-2016 17:30
  
  Claims the hotel’s ‘bottom’ posters look like ‘a 70s advert’
  
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• Hotel La Tour condemned for using bottoms to promote Marco Pierre White restaurant entrance

  13-05-2016 15:30
  
  The hotel's adverts have caused a sexism row on Twitter
  
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• Cheeky! Hotel La Tour condemned for using bottoms to promote Marco Pierre White restaurant entrance

  13-05-2016 15:30
  
  The hotel's adverts have caused a sexism row on Twitter
  
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• Pensioner fights for life after Alum Rock hit-and-run crash

  13-05-2016 15:28
  
  Man arrest in connection with collision in Alum Rock Road
  
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• Kingsman: The Golden Circle to be filmed in Birmingham - but will Channing Tatum and Taron Egerton be there?

  13-05-2016 14:40
  
  The Kingsman sequel starring Channing Tatum is being filmed in Birmingham - and it is the biggest film shoot the city has ever seen
  
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• Woman dials 999 to beg for help for SUNBURN from sunbed

  13-05-2016 14:06
  
  Latest in a string of crazy calls to West Midlands Ambulance Service
  
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• Paedophile who fled country while on bail jailed for 20 years

  13-05-2016 14:06
  
  It is thought that Jose Manico escaped to Africa after being let out of custody
  
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• Birmingham's hot spell broken, with cold snap set to hit region

  13-05-2016 13:37
  
  Temperatures are set to plunge this weekend, with frosts on the way 
  
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• Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne reunite for first time since cheating rumours

  13-05-2016 13:27
  
  But Sharon says surprise public get-together was just a ‘business arrangement’
  
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• Pensioner's ASHES to travel on No.28 bus named in her memory after 60 years of travel

  13-05-2016 12:45
  
  Kingstanding great-grandmother Iris Haywood would even ride the whole loop for a day out
  
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• West Midlands Police investigate Conservative election expenses

  13-05-2016 12:33
  
  Police investigation follows claims Tories failed properly to declare expenses in seats such as Dudley South
  
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• Brexit cost to UK likely to be 'negative and severe', warns IMF

  13-05-2016 12:28
  
  Leaving the European Union will cost us money, says Chancellor George Osborne
  
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• Judge blasts rapist Daniel Dennis, who attacked woman to 'get one over' on his friend

  13-05-2016 11:41
  
  She condemns men who view sex attacks as 'banter' as fiend is jailed for six years
  
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• The best cocktail bars in Birmingham

  13-05-2016 10:30
  
  We have some fabulous cocktail bars in the city, from hidden speakeasies to tropical paradises.
  
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• Terrorist mentored by Kings Heath IS fanatic Junaid Hussain facing life in prison

  13-05-2016 10:18
  
  Junead Khan planned attack on US military personnel after scouting air bases
  
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• Costco recalls vegetables due to possible listeria contamination which causes food poisoning

  13-05-2016 10:09
  
  The Food Standards Agency has warned customers who have purchased the product not to eat it
  
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• New Birmingham restaurants and food events you won't want to miss in May

  13-05-2016 10:03
  
  If you are a foodie and you live in Birmingham you will love some of these
  
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• Med people-smuggling mission 'hampered by lack of stable Libyan government'

  13-05-2016 10:00
  
  House of Lords EU Committee said Operation Sophia is responsible for only low-level arrests.
  
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• Fireworks factory hit by blaze causing explosions

  13-05-2016 09:56
  
  Southampton wakes up to unexpected fireworks display after fire
  
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• 'Dangerous and violent' armed robber serving life sentence escapes from prison

  13-05-2016 09:41
  
  Public warned not to approach William Pearce, who has links to Birmingham
  
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• Bath bomb causes evacuation for hundreds

  13-05-2016 09:30
  
  500lb Second World War shell found beneath the surface of a school playground causes 300-meter exclusion zone
  
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• No rest for Solihull Moors boss Marcus Bignot as plans for the new season take shape - Solihull Observer

  13-05-2016 08:41 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  No rest for Solihull Moors boss Marcus Bignot as plans for the new season take shape
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  MARCUS BIGNOT says Solihull Moors will undergo a summer of evolution rather than revolution to prepare for their debut among non-League's elite. The Moors ended the greatest season in their history by adding the Birmingham Senior Cup to their National ...
  
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• Invictus games hero cried after tweet from Papworth Hospital

  13-05-2016 08:31
  
  Sergeant Elizabeth Marks donated her Invictus gold medal to the institution as a thank you for saving her life in 2014.
  
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• Morning news headlines: IMF to enter Brexit row amid controversy over Bank of England's intervention; Jeremy Corbyn urges young people to vote in EU referendum

  13-05-2016 08:19
  
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• Watch: Aftermath of SIX CAR pile-up in Kings Road, Tyseley

  13-05-2016 08:00
  
  Driver Kaiser Lone tells how he had lucky escape after shunt on busy road
  
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• Crooked Solihull psychiatrist made £16k from seeing private patients while off sick - Birmingham Mail

  13-05-2016 07:33 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Crooked Solihull psychiatrist made £16k from seeing private patients while off sick
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  A Solihull psychiatrist defrauded the NHS out of £16,000 by carrying out private work while off sick – and by using his own hospital for consultations. Nawshad Suleman, 65, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, after admitting ...and more »
  
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• Greater Birmingham mayor and council imposed after sham consultation, say Lords

  13-05-2016 07:30
  
  Consultation about plans to transform the West Midlands lasted only three weeks and got facts wrong
  
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• Crooked Solihull psychiatrist made £16k from seeing private patients while off sick

  13-05-2016 07:30
  
  Disgraced Nawshad Suleman, 65, has received a suspended jail sentence for hospital scam
  
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• Hundreds of Birmingham children call ChildLine over exam stress

  13-05-2016 06:50
  
  Staggering number of youngsters pushed to the brink by exams, as thousands boycott Sats exams
  
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• Birmingham fails to provide help for hundreds of special needs children

  13-05-2016 06:50
  
  Parents have been left in the dark after council failed to meet deadline, say experts
  
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• Sutton Coldfield to have first mayor for 42 years

  13-05-2016 06:00
  
  Council for the royal town has chosen Conservative Charlotte Hodivala to lead newly elected authority
  
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• Most read: Jewellers in administration, pregnant teenager attacked, travellers move onto park

  13-05-2016 06:00
  
  Catch up on last night's big stories with our roundup of the most read from Thursday, May 12
  
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• Brakes put on university's bid to close Jewellery Quarter street

  13-05-2016 06:00
  
  University College Birmingham has been sent back to the drawing board over its £65m campus expansion despite working with council officers for three years on the project
  
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• Walsall hypnotherapist charged with drug offences

  13-05-2016 00:00
  
  A hypnotherapist has been charged with two counts of possession of class A, two counts of possession of class C and one count of supplying Class C controlled drugs.Shokat Ali, aged 61, of Foxwood Avenue, Great Barr, is accused of providing the controlled drug Diazepam to patients during hypnotherapy sessions at his home-run practice Life Principles.PC David Tenn from Walsall Police Station, said: “We are aware that Mr Ali has a nationwide client base and we are keen to speak to anyone who
  
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• Sex offender flees country to avoid jail

  13-05-2016 00:00
  
  A paedophile who fled the country to avoid facing charges of rape against two young children has been jailed for two decades in his absence. Jose Manico, aged 44, first struck in London in 2003 when he targeted the young daughter of a previous girlfriend. The girl, who was aged seven or eight at the time, reported the assaults in 2008 but no charges were brought against Manico due to insufficient evidence. In August 2014 Manico had moved to Birmingham and was married with children when
  
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• Police hunch leads to drugs stash find – and jail for dealer

  13-05-2016 00:00
  
  An intuitive street stop by West Midlands Police officers led them to uncover a cocaine and heroin stash valued at nearly £25,000 – and the jailing of a drug dealer.Cops on patrol in the Tile Hill area of Coventry became suspicious when they spotted three men cruising the streets in a car just after midnight on 29 March.The hunch proved well-founded as, having pulled the Volkswagen Passat over in Banner Lane, a strong smell of cannabis wafted from the vehicle.A search of rear seat pa
  
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• Man jailed for life for killing his aunt

  13-05-2016 00:00
  
  A man who killed his aunt on the driveway of her home while suffering a mental disorder, has today (Friday 13 May) been jailed for life.Gareth Emery, aged 25, from Clinton Road, Shirley, was handed the term at Birmingham Crown Court.He will serve a minimum of nine years after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Anne Dunkley on the grounds of diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.Anne, aged 67, a retired deputy head teacher, was killed outside her home in Elmdon Road, Marston Green i
  
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• Local man arrested after hit and run in Alum Rock

  13-05-2016 00:00
  
  A suspected hit and run driver has been arrested following a collision in Alum Rock yesterday (12 May) that left a pedestrian with multiple injuries.Police were alerted just before 7pm when a 65-year-old man was struck by a car in Alum Rock Road at the junction of Ludlow Road.The driver of the car sped off but the vehicle was tracked down to a road nearby. The 31-year-old man handed himself into a local police station this morning, he will be questioned on suspicion of failing to stop at the sce
  
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