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• Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi visits Solihull hospital - Solihull Observer

  12-08-2016 21:10 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
  Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi visits Solihull hospital
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  Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi visits Solihull hospital Cancer Services manager Elisa Follen with Professor Don Milligan and Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi who was a patient at the Centre. 32.016.006.sol.jm1. Written by Shaun Reynolds. Published ...
  
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• Broad Street beggars jailed after intimidating revellers

  12-08-2016 20:00
  
  Businesses and police tackle aggressive 'confidence tricksters' who exploit public
  
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• Digbeth hostages describe moment they heard boss being 'shot dead'

  12-08-2016 19:23
  
  Employees at Digbeth business say they were tied up and held at gunpoint
  
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• Revealed: The unhealthiest areas of Birmingham and the Black County

  12-08-2016 18:32
  
  Dudley,Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Coventry among WORST in England
  
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• Revealed: The unhealthiest areas of Birmingham and the Black Country

  12-08-2016 18:32
  
  Dudley,Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Coventry among WORST in England
  
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• Solihull Moors provide injury update on captain Theo Streete - Birmingham Mail

  12-08-2016 18:11 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Solihull Moors provide injury update on captain Theo Streete
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  Solihull Moors captain Theo Streete will be out of action until the new year at least. Streete, who skippered Moors to the National League North title last season, suffered a knee injury during pre-season. Jack Byrne has resumed training after ...
  
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• Police probe Solihull 'machete attack' after injured man walks into housing office - Birmingham Mail

  12-08-2016 17:53 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Police probe Solihull 'machete attack' after injured man walks into housing office
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  Police are investigating a suspected machete attack on a man - who walked into a housing office in Solihull seeking help. The man, aged in his 60s, entered Kingshurst Area Housing Office in Church Close at around 2.45pm this afternoon, with an injury ...
  
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• Police probe Solihull 'machete attack' after injured man walks into housing office

  12-08-2016 17:50
  
  Victim taken to hospital after raising alarm at Kingshurst Area Housing Office
  
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• Police officer hit by car trying to stop Solihull fuel thief - Birmingham Mail

  12-08-2016 17:28 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Police officer hit by car trying to stop Solihull fuel thief
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  A motorist has been arrested after a police officer was flung across the front of a car as he tried stopping a suspected fuel thief speeding away from a petrol station. West Midlands Police was called to the BP garage in Stratford Road, Shirley, at ...
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• Police officer hit by car trying to stop Solihull fuel thief - Birmingham ... - Birmingham Mail

  12-08-2016 17:28 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
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  Police officer hit by car trying to stop Solihull fuel thief - Birmingham ...
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  A motorist has been arrested after a police officer was flung across the front of a car as he tried stopping a suspected fuel thief speeding away from a petrol ...
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• Police officer hit by car trying to stop Solihull fuel thief

  12-08-2016 17:22
  
  Officers tried to grab man's keys but he drove off
  
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• Woman's vile rant at Brindleyplace jazz festival captured on camera

  12-08-2016 15:23
  
  These woman loses control and let rip with a foul mouthed tirade at passers-by
  
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• Eight arrested as train brawl spills onto Birmingham station

  12-08-2016 15:17
  
  One man left with head injuries after Thursday night incident
  
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• Tributes paid to Dudley man found dead at home

  12-08-2016 15:08
  
  Murder investigation continues after body of 41-year-old was discovered
  
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• How to avoid falling victim to passport cons this summer

  12-08-2016 14:34
  
  The Foreign Office release new video highlighting the most common techniques
  
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• Body washes ashore in Barmouth days after Birmingham boys go missing

  12-08-2016 14:21
  
  Waseem Muflihi and friend Yahya Mohammed, both aged 15, missing since Sunday
  
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• Cabbie freed after taxi and lorry collide in Harborne

  12-08-2016 14:12
  
  Three passengers were also checked out after crash
  
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• Lillie Lexie Gregg slams rival Charlotte Crosby for 'using ectopic pregnancy for publicity'

  12-08-2016 14:00
  
  The Brummie designer says the Geordie Shore star should have kept her ordeal private
  
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• Birmingham set for sizzling heatwave as Spanish plume arrives

  12-08-2016 13:39
  
  Weekend of sunshine on the cards before temperatures really hot up next week
  
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• Only allow English or Welsh in polling stations to cut voting fraud, says government inquiry

  12-08-2016 13:15
  
  The use of 'foreign languages' in polling stations may allow coercion, warns Government report
  
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• Two jailed for Chelmsley Wood knife-point robbery - Solihull Observer

  12-08-2016 13:03 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  Two jailed for Chelmsley Wood knife-point robbery
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  Two jailed for Chelmsley Wood knife-point robbery Michael Johnson (L) and Tony Walker have been jailed after holding a taxi driver at knife point. Written by Aisling Kiely. Published 12:01 pm, Aug 12, 2016. TWO MEN have been jailed after a taxi driver ...
  
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• Lamborghini traffic jam may have been created by 'Lord' Aleem

  12-08-2016 12:49
  
  Did YouTube sensation provide the cars for a Birmingham blockade?
  
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• Hunky Dory Pubs launches first pub in Solihull - Morning Advertiser - MorningAdvertiser.co.uk

  12-08-2016 11:20 via morningadvertiser.co.uk
  
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  Hunky Dory Pubs launches first pub in Solihull - Morning Advertiser
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  The new collaboration between Enterprise Inns and Publican Awards-winning operator Oakman Inns is opening its first site today (Friday 12 August) in Solihull, ...
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• Couple cut free from car on busy Birmingham commuter route

  12-08-2016 10:50
  
  Buses diverted and congestion after Edgbaston crash
  
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• Patient of Embarrassing Bodies doctor Manu Nair claims he was left infertile

  12-08-2016 10:08
  
  Lawyers for the man say he was told he needed surgery for a 'life or death' situation
  
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• Thailand bombs: holidaymakers warned to be "extra vigilant"

  12-08-2016 09:39
  
  Foreign office advises avoiding public places
  
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• Second post mortem ordered on tragic Tamworth boy

  12-08-2016 09:10
  
  Charlie Dunn, aged five, died following incident at water park
  
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• Two quizzed over murder of Dudley man

  12-08-2016 08:45
  
  The pair are being held on suspicion of murder of 41-year-old
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Solihull Council tax consultation branded 'unlawful' by lawyer - Solihull Observer

  12-08-2016 08:43 via solihullobserver.co.uk
  
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  EXCLUSIVE: Solihull Council tax consultation branded 'unlawful' by lawyer
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  SOLIHULL Council has been forced to re-launch and extend its consultation into increasing council tax for the borough's poorest families after a lawyer branded it 'unlawful'. The controversial consultation into whether to hike the council tax of low ...
  
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• Birmingham care homes close, leaving future of 150 elderly residents in doubt

  12-08-2016 07:30
  
  Over 160 staff also face redundancy after firm announces homes to shut
  
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• Centenary Square £10 million revamp defended by city leaders

  12-08-2016 06:30
  
  They are at loggerheads with the planning committee which has been highly critical of scheme
  
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• M6 gantry man tells police 'I want my car back!'

  12-08-2016 06:00
  
  Known only as Richard he speaks out on an ongoing issue with West Midlands Police
  
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• Designs unveiled for one of Birmingham's tallest apartment blocks

  12-08-2016 06:00
  
  Regeneration project in Smallbrook Queensway will include tower to rival city's largest residential schemes but signals end to part of 1960s building which is both loved and hated
  
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• Two arrested on suspicion of murder in Dudley

  12-08-2016 00:00
  
  Detectives investigating the death of a man at a house in Netherton have arrested two people on suspicion of murder overnight.The men – both aged 18 – were detained at a property in Dudley at around 9.20pm (Thursday 11 August) and remain in custody this morning.It follows the discovery of a body at a house on Cradley Road yesterday.Police were called to the address at around 9.40am by the ambulance service and launched an investigation after the 41-year-old – who has not yet be
  
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• Prolific Coventry crook jailed for running “industrial scale” drugs network

  12-08-2016 00:00
  
  A prolific Coventry crook who ran cannabis ‘farms’ at addresses across the city – and was producing drugs on an “industrial scale” – has been jailed for more than four years.Nigel Barwell (pictured), from James Galloway Close in Binley, managed cannabis cultivation sites in at least five properties – all with extensive light, heat and ventilation set-ups – that had the potential to net him £400,000 a year.Detectives raided an address in Lanes
  
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• Officer knocked over as police tackle fuel theft suspect

  12-08-2016 00:00
  
  A motorist has been arrested after a West Midlands Police officer was knocked down on a petrol station forecourt as he tried stopping a suspected fuel thief.Officers were called to the BP garage in Stratford Road, Shirley, at around 1am this morning (August 12) by staff reporting a driver they believed was trying to fill up for free.The man jumped behind the wheel and tried speeding away as one of the officers reached inside the driver’s door in a bid to grab the keys.He was flung across t
  
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