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• Viewers slate the terrible prize dates on new Blind Date

  17-06-2017 21:08
  
  The Channel 5 revamp sends couples to play ping pong and crazy golf
  
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• Grandson jailed after secretly storing guns at home of grandparents

  17-06-2017 18:36
  
  Police found a Luger pistol and other weapons that were being kept by Neno Dodd
  
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• Watch: Teenage thugs steal scooter off deaf and disabled victim after punching him to floor

  17-06-2017 18:30
  
  Gary Bellamy, 23, has also been spat at in the street by yobs who have bullied him
  
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• Princess Diana tapes reveal she 'threw herself down the stairs while pregnant with Prince William' in suicide bid

  17-06-2017 17:55
  
  20 years after her tragic death in Paris, Morton's explosive booked Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words, is being republished
  
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• Neighbour from hell jailed for starting fire at her block of flats after eviction threat

  17-06-2017 17:36
  
  Neighbours lived in fear of firebug’s threat to torch block after previous problems
  
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• Home Instead Senior Care announced as top ten most recommended - Solihull Observer

  17-06-2017 17:25 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Home Instead Senior Care announced as top ten most recommended
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  HOME Instead Senior Care, which provides care to older people in their own homes across Solihull, has been announced as one of the top 10 most recommended home care companies in the homecare.co.uk 'Top 10 Awards 2017'. This seal of approval has ...
  
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• Scorchio! Birmingham to bask in three-day heatwave that is putting Rio in the shade

  17-06-2017 17:15
  
  Temperatures will have hit 28C today with the sunshine forecast to continue tomorrow and Monday
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: 'At least 15 children from same nursery are still missing'

  17-06-2017 16:08
  
  Nursery was based on the ground floor of the tower block which was turned into deadly inferno
  
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• Solihull Santander staff make huge difference to Heart of England Mencap customers - Solihull Observer

  17-06-2017 15:30 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Solihull Santander staff make huge difference to Heart of England Mencap customers
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  Funding a summer of fun – (left) Cath Errington, Fundraising Manager for Heart of England Mencap with Tracey Bantock, Branch Director for Santander Solihull and Mencap customers Russell Harriman, Brian Steele and Glenn Merryfield. Chris Willmott 18th ...
  
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• Football fan dies in freak holiday accident as he tried to pick up dropped sunglasses

  17-06-2017 15:25
  
  Richard Bunt, 33, was away with friends and family when he fell while being transported to hotel
  
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• Meet The Uptone Girls, the Brummie students competing in BBC1's Pitch Battle

  17-06-2017 14:01
  
  The all-girl group from University of Birmingham follow in the footsteps of Sons of Pitches
  
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• Two West Midlands Police officers handed awards in Queen's Birthday Honours

  17-06-2017 14:00
  
  Assistant Chief Constable Alex Murray and PC Gary Stack have both been recognised for "inspiring and ground-breaking work"
  
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• Kidderminster man jailed for possession of indecent images of children

  17-06-2017 13:28
  
  Charles Cooper-Burge was jailed yesterday for 12 months at Worcester Crown Court
  
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• Charlotte Green becomes ambassador for The Brain Tumour Charity - Solihull Observer

  17-06-2017 13:15 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Charlotte Green becomes ambassador for The Brain Tumour Charity
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  Solihull teaching assistant Charlotte Green received a first-class honours degree just months after she finished radiotherapy for a brain tumour and has been made a charity ambassador to help raise awareness about the devastating disease. Chris ...
  
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• Man in court accused of hate crime after punching Muslim woman in the face

  17-06-2017 12:40
  
  The alleged hate crime happened last Sunday as the victim sat in her car at traffic lights in Lozells
  
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• Man left lying unconscious in Great Barr bus stop as passengers IGNORE him

  17-06-2017 12:17
  
  Shocked nursery staff say the man was also ignored by passers-by until they stepped in
  
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• Fundraising for Cameron Dixon reaches impressive £2000 - Solihull Observer

  17-06-2017 09:22 via solihullobserver.co.uk
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  Fundraising for Cameron Dixon reaches impressive £2000
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  South Birmingham Scooter Club hand over the cheque for the money the club raised for Cameron. Chris Willmott 9 hours ago. A 'FANTASTIC' £2,000 has been raised to help with the ongoing costs of a brave borough youngster's powerchair. The Observer ...
  
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• Watch: Terrifying moment speeding driver collides with taxi leaving driver fighting for his life

  17-06-2017 07:30
  
  The teenage driver of the hatchback was handed a ten month sentence at a youth offenders institute
  
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• Universities paid £650k in library fines but one book is TWENTY YEARS overdue

  17-06-2017 07:30
  
  University of Birmingham has been named top of the class for late returns
  
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• Walsall man charged in connection with terrorism offence

  17-06-2017 00:00
  
  A 27-year-old man arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences has today (Saturday 17 June) been charged.
   
  Christopher Jesus Soares, from Lysways Street, Walsall, has been charged with distributing a terrorist publication contrary to section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
   
  Soares was charged as follows:
  On 1 December 2016, disseminated a terrorist publication and at the time of doing so was reckless as to whether an effect of his conduct would be a direct or indirect encouragement or ot
  
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• Birmingham man charged with hate crime

  17-06-2017 00:00
  
  A Birmingham man will appear at court this morning (Saturday 17 June) charged with hate crime and assault.Unemployed Davion Kelly, aged 31 from Handsworth will appear before Birmingham magistrates charged with three counts of causing racially or religiously aggravated alarm or distress and four counts of assault.The charges follow one incident on Sunday (11 June) where a woman driver, who was stationery at traffic lights in Lozells, had water thrown at her, then she was punched and racially abus
  
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