Solihull news

• Opinion: West Midlands mayor will be one of the most powerful politicians in the country

  21-05-2016 23:00
  
  The West Midlands mayor will be a massive job but who could do it?
  
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• Watch: Women start vicious FIST FIGHT on Erdington High Street

  21-05-2016 18:00
  
  One of the women was struck three times as the drama unfolded
  
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• Home Secretary lifts ban on separatist group once dubbed 'Sikh Sinn Fein'

  21-05-2016 18:00
  
  International Sikh Youth Federation was founded in Walsall in the 1980s
  
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• Father and son reunited after 44 years looking for each other!

  21-05-2016 18:00
  
  Aldridge dad and son share first pint together after emotional meeting under station clock
  
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• Police appeal to find missing teenage sisters Demi and Nicole Anslow

  21-05-2016 17:23
  
  Schoolgirls Demi, 13, and Nicole, 14, vanished within days of each other
  
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• Birmingham City University to become first in Europe to offer degree in Black Studies

  21-05-2016 16:43
  
  Diverse Birmingham is the best place to offer the groundbreaking course, says academic
  
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• Jaguar car passenger dies after crash near Black Country Living Museum

  21-05-2016 16:04
  
  Witness appeal after victim, 52, pronounced dead at scene after Friday night smash
  
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• Family tree search ends in shocking revelation that ancestor was HANGED for fraud

  21-05-2016 15:38
  
  Funny money past of John Duffield comes back to haunt his great great great grandson
  
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• Dowser called in to check out garden leak finds huge underground lake!

  21-05-2016 15:23
  
  Geoffrey Staite is an old-fashioned diviner who uses copper rods to find water
  
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• Lonely hearts fraudster who conned women out of £200,000 loses appeal

  21-05-2016 14:49
  
  Matthew Samuels told dates he was one of Britain's wealthiest men, with footballers as friends
  
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• Car careers into verge and ends up on roof near Solihull - Birmingham Mail

  21-05-2016 13:36 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Car careers into verge and ends up on roof near Solihull
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  TWO women were treated for shock after their car left the roadside and ended up on its roof. The women were travelling on Hampton Lane in Catherine-de-Barnes, at 4am today, when the driver lost control of their vehicle and it careered into a deep verge.
  
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• Car careers into verge and ends up on roof near Solihull

  21-05-2016 13:31
  
  Female occupants lucky to have escaped serious injury after 4am smash
  
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• Cathedral bell ringer bombarded teenage girl with 30,000 Facebook messages

  21-05-2016 13:20
  
  Worcester bell ringer loses appeal to get his job back
  
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• Man left in critical condition following horror crash in Olton

  21-05-2016 11:50
  
  Three cars involved in collision in Warwick Road, near Olton Reservoir
  
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• Woman dies and young girl seriously injured after being struck by lorry

  21-05-2016 11:09
  
  Child now 'stable' at Birmingham Children's Hospital after horror accident in Stratford-upon-Avon
  
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• Injured girl 'stable' at Birmingham Children's Hospital after lorry crash left woman dead

  21-05-2016 11:09
  
  Horror accident took place during Friday morning rush hour in Stratford-upon-Avon
  
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• Ancient water well discovered in Acocks Green - bottled Birmingham water anyone?

  21-05-2016 10:00
  
  Perrier, Evian and Volvic? Forget about it the great taste of Birmingham is here
  
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• What will the Greater Birmingham mayor earn? Answer: A lot less than you think

  21-05-2016 07:30
  
  Villa striker Gaby Agbonlahor earns in five days what the future elected mayor could earn in year
  
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• Spectacular £3m Edgbaston home boasts wine cellar, cinema and NINE bedrooms

  21-05-2016 07:30
  
  Fancy owning this 9-bedroom home? You'll only need a spare £3m
  
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• Q Club has licence suspended over allegations bouncer assaulted customer

  21-05-2016 07:30
  
  Council chiefs decide to shut down landmark nightclub after alleged attack
  
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• MPs attack police for failing to recruit and promote black and Asian cops

  21-05-2016 01:01
  
  Nine out of ten West Midlands Police officers are white.
  
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• Man dies in Dudley collision  

  21-05-2016 00:00
  
  Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died in a collision near to the Black Country Museum yesterday (Friday 20 May). A Jaguar and an HGV collided on the Birmingham New Road, Tipton just after 10:30pm. Despite the best efforts of ambulance colleagues the 52-year-old passenger of the Jaguar was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was treated in hospital for head injuries and remains in a stable condition. The driver of the HGV was uninjured. Police Constable Chris Rid
  
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• Hats off to record breakers remembering police-mad Finlay

  21-05-2016 00:00
  
  Police hats belonging to West Midlands Police officers - including one from Chief Constable Dave Thompson - have helped set an unusual charity world record in memory of schoolboy Finlay Church.The police-mad 11-year-old dreamed of being a police officer when he grew up - but his life was cruelly cut short weeks before Christmas when he finally succumbed to an aggressive brain tumour.West Midlands Police officers formed a guard of honour when Fin - who spent a day with the force as a special gues
  
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• Coventry protests pass off peacefully

  21-05-2016 00:00
  
  Protests and counter protests in Coventry today have passed off without incident with just four arrests and no reported injuries. Around 220 members of the English Defence League (EDL) held the protest outside the council house in Coventry city centre from around 1pm this afternoon.Counter demonstrations also took place in the city at the same time attracting around 150 people.A robust policing operation - with West Midlands Police working alongside Coventry City Council and other partner a
  
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• Appeal to trace sisters missing from the Black Country

  21-05-2016 00:00
  
  Police are searching for two teenage sisters who are missing from their homes in the Black Country.Demi Anslow (pictured below left), aged 13, is living temporarily in Birmingham and was last seen on Wednesday (18 May) although it is thought she may be in the Halesowen area.Her sister Nicole (picutred below right), aged 14, has been living in Telford and was last seen in Dudley on Saturday 14 May.Detective Constable Dave Hackett said:  "Both girls have been missing several times before, but
  
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