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• Police tackle domestic abuse thugs during lockdown as total crime falls

  11-04-2020 18:00
  
  Home Secretary Priti Patel revealed there was a 120 percent rise in calls to a domestic abuse helpline in a 24 hour during lockdown
  
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• Police issue 1,084 lockdown fines as Covidiots continue to flout rules

  11-04-2020 17:44
  
  Figures released during daily press conference, hours after it was revealed total deaths were nearing 10,000 in UK
  
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• Body found in search for missing Tamworth man

  11-04-2020 17:17
  
  Officers have called off the search for missing person Phillip Murphy
  
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• Woman in 'critical' condition after being struck by car in city

  11-04-2020 17:13
  
  A 25-year-old woman was rushed to hospital after being struck by a red Renault Cleo on Linden Road
  
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• Birmingham hospital trust has UK's highest number of coronavirus deaths

  11-04-2020 16:37
  
  University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust had reported 394 fatalities as of 5pm on April 10 - and is one of five in UK with more than 200 deaths
  
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• Man gunned down in residential street during lockdown

  11-04-2020 16:31
  
  Police have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting on Alexandra Road
  
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• Temporary morgue to open at cemetery as city mortuaries 'full'

  11-04-2020 16:26
  
  Sutton New Hall Cemetery will open this Easter weekend and be used as an emergency facility to store bodies
  
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• The 'Easter Bunny' makes a surprise appearance on Birmingham rooftop

  11-04-2020 16:15
  
  "I just thought if I could make people smile that would be a good thing"
  
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• 'Easter Bunny' makes a surprise appearance on Birmingham rooftop

  11-04-2020 16:15
  
  "I just thought if I could make people smile that would be a good thing"
  
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• West Midlands residents face 'highest threat to life from coronavirus'

  11-04-2020 16:09
  
  A hard hitting new report says people in the West Midlands with underlying health conditions should be self isolating, whatever their age
  
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• Top cop is 'off ventilator and awake' after coronavirus battle

  11-04-2020 15:58
  
  Chief Supt Phil Dolby, from West Midlands Police, is off ventilator after brave battle with deadly virus
  
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• Coronavirus death toll surges towards 10,000 with 917 new cases

  11-04-2020 15:28
  
  Total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England jumped to 8,937 with 9,479 so far across the UK
  
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• Coronavirus death toll surges towards 10,000 with 823 new cases

  11-04-2020 15:28
  
  Total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England jumped to 8,937 with 9,479 so far across the UK
  
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• Prime Minister making 'good progress' following bout of coronavirus

  11-04-2020 14:38
  
  PM has managed to take short walks inside hospital ward and spent time watching films, according to a 10 Downing Street source
  
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• Desolate M5 motorway shows people heeding lockdown rules at Easter

  11-04-2020 13:52
  
  It's a stark difference to normal Easter weekend traffic on Birmingham's motorways
  
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• Lockdown Birmingham bakes in weekend heat but all change by Monday

  11-04-2020 13:49
  
  It could reach the mid-20s C on Saturday afternoon which is reported to be hotter than Majorca or Rome
  
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• Search for injured man who was spotted outside garden centre

  11-04-2020 13:10
  
  The man was spotted with head injuries opposite Dobbies Garden Centre in Shenstone this morning (Saturday) at 7.40am
  
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• Woman on drugs trial beats coronavirus after 10-day fight against bug

  11-04-2020 13:01
  
  Claire Fuller, 56, was treated with anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine after she was taken into Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital at the end of March
  
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• Wills written by young NHS staff increase during coronavirus outbreak

  11-04-2020 12:55
  
  Increasing amounts of doctors and nurses, in their 30s, treating COVID-19 patients, have made wills across Birmingham and the Black Country, solicitor firms find
  
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• Three luxury motors snatched in car key burglaries during lockdown

  11-04-2020 12:34
  
  The thefts took place in Walsall and Quinton during break-ins this week despite the UK still being in lockdown due to coronavirus
  
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• Morrisons announces end of rationing on key items with curbs lifted

  11-04-2020 12:18
  
  Restrictions were introduced after customers began panic-buying items such as toilet roll, pasta, and long-life milk, leaving shelves across the country empty
  
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• Massive queues as Brummies come out in force to save their chippies

  11-04-2020 12:03
  
  There were 75-yard queues at some of Brum's best chippies as the public came out to support their local fish bars on Good Friday
  
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• UK schools 'may reopen in June in staggered approach’

  11-04-2020 11:51
  
  Claims that government is considering a 'careful return to classrooms' after peak of pandemic
  
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• Health worker 'humiliated' by B&M shopping ordeal

  11-04-2020 11:37
  
  Robyn Fairfield-Bretherton, 28, a healthcare assistant at Liverpool's Aintree Hospital, hoped to pick some presents up for her two-year-old son’s birthday
  
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• Woman sells fridge for heating - lockdown on Universal Credit

  11-04-2020 11:34
  
  Dallas Kennedy-Willows is spending her days in isolation wrapped up in jumpers and her nights sitting by candlelight
  
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• Health care students set up help group for frontline NHS staff

  11-04-2020 11:17
  
  A kind group of health care students in Walsall have joined forces to help out frontline workers during the coronavirus crisis
  
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• Birmingham teenager reveals trauma of being upskirting victim

  11-04-2020 11:06
  
  Morgan, 17, was 15 when a man took pictures of her without her knowledge
  
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• Nursing leader's angry response to government PPE claims

  11-04-2020 11:03
  
  Royal College of Nursing chief said no PPE was "more precious a resource than a healthcare worker's life, a nurse's life, a doctor's life"
  
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• Coronavirus vaccine trials could begin within two weeks

  11-04-2020 11:02
  
  Vaccinology expert Sarah Gilbert, of Oxford University, says she is "80 per cent" confident of its success
  
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• Hancock reveals NHS coronavirus death toll reaches 19

  11-04-2020 11:01
  
  Vicitms of deadly virus include Walsall nurse and mum-of-three Areema Nasreen, 36, and Burton-based ENT surgeon Amged El-Hawrani
  
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• Cops seize motorbike from rider defying coronavirus lockdown

  11-04-2020 11:01
  
  Central Motorway Police Group said the motorcycle had been confiscated from man making a non-essential journey in Stoke-on-Trent
  
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• 25 firefighters tackle large fire affecting three city homes

  11-04-2020 10:08
  
  The blaze broke out in a garden on Trefoil Close but quickly spread to two further buildings
  
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• The major Solihull events axed or postponed amid coronavirus crisis - Birmingham Live

  11-04-2020 06:41
  The major Solihull events axed or postponed amid coronavirus crisis  Birmingham Live
  
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• World's biggest Primark one year old and nobody's there

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  Just when the world's biggest Primark should have been celebrating its first birthday the shutters are down
  
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• Which supermarkets is best when it comes to shopping during lockdown?

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  Staff members greeting you with a trolley, 'over the top' social distancing and DIY cleaning stations, how shoppers think the supermarkets are doing during lockdown
  
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• Watch kittens at play while Cats Protection on standby to help out in a crisis

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  It's an older person's worst nightmare - they are taken ill and there's a pet to look after. But Cats Protection is still trying to assist...
  
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• Thug battered man with steering lock after 'drug balloon' row

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  Sheikh Samed, 33, jailed for ten years after repeatedly attacking Mohammed Arshad
  
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• This is what it's like to give birth during coronavirus pandemic

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  New mum Paige Saunders, speaks about her experience giving birth during the coronavirus outbreak
  
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• The major events axed or postponed amid coronavirus crisis

  11-04-2020 06:30
  Public celebrations, fund raisers and annual favourites have been disrupted by Covid-19
  
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• Inside the amazingly colourful bungalow for sale on Brum estate

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  Each room has been decorated in a different colour and pays homage to the 60s
  
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• Good Hope doctor reveals six early coronavirus signs to look out for

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  Dr Ron Daniels described the almost sinister way that COVID-19 attacks the body
  
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• Cop had online sex chat with 'schoolgirl' who was undercover cop

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  West Midlands sergeant Stephen Shaw groomed the 'girl' during conversations and sent her a sexually explicit picture of himself
  
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• City's oldest fruit and veg wholesaler reinvents with home deliveries

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  George Perry Ltd saw 2020 as a celebration for its 150th anniversary but it is now using the coronavirus pandemic to launch a whole new way of working
  
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• Birmingham dad's diary on how he beat coronavirus

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  Panayiotis Elia didn't show classic COVID-19 symptoms at first but, within 10 days, he was in a critical condition at Good Hope Hospital. Thankfully, he's now recovering at home with his family and has shared what happened
  
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• All the garden centres near Birmingham doing home delivery

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  Venturing out to the supermarket may currently be an arduous task, but here is a list of garden centres to help grow your own food instead of venturing out.
  
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• All the cleanest takeaways near you with a top hygiene rating

  11-04-2020 06:30
  
  All these fast food outlets were given the top food hygiene rating of five
  
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