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The Latest Breaking News from West Midlands

Policeman admits grooming, abducting and sexually assaulting 13-year-old girl

Haider Siddique was a serving West Midlands Police officer at the time he committed the offences

Evening Standard

Tory mayor Andy Street says levelling up policy should trust local people more

West Midlands mayor believes it shouldn’t only be up to civil servants in London to make all the project funding decisions

The Guardian - UK

Tech trials signal new future with NHS virtual wards

WM5G is working with tech companies and health trusts on project to help people leave hospital earlier and tackle bed-blocking crisis

Birmingham Post

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University rail station delayed for a third time

MP says delay 'is a huge blow for our city and our region'

Birmingham Post

Ferrari worth £500,000 wrecked as driver smashes into parked cars

Pest control boss Richard Cullen admitted driving without due care and attention in Halesowen, West Midlands

The Independent UK

Another health services union joins super strike day on February 6 in Wales

A series of fresh strikes by ambulance workers has been announced

Wales Online

Levelling Up: Full list of every UK project getting cash in round two

The transformational projects across the UK will include Eden Project North visitor attraction in Morecambe and a new AI campus in Blackpool

Manchester Evening News

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Plans for £200m Britishvolt factory over as warehouse goes back on market

Prologis UK confirms it is on the hunt for new tenants for its Hams Hall site following collapse of manufacturer which would have created 150 new jobs in the West Midlands

Birmingham Post

Best pubs in the country are revealed - was your local on the list of finalists?

The winner of the Pub of the Year has been announced by CAMRA as a West Midlands watering hole which has only been running for five years - but see here if your local was among the finalists

Daily Mirror

Ambulance workers announce new strike date later this month in row over pay and working conditions

In excess of 2,600 ambulance workers across the North East, North West, East Midlands, West Midlands, and Wales will participate in strike action.

Chronicle Live

Six women arrested after one-year-old boy dies at nursery

Three women aged 20, 23 and 50 were arrested days before Christmas

The Independent UK

School closed after Army bomb disposal squad investigate suspicious items

West Midlands Police says discovery was unconnected to school

The Independent UK

Mum fumes after finding spider stuck to Aldi pastry when feeding young daughter

The mum's elderly father had purchased the pastry from the Aldi store in Canley, West Midlands, but when the mum gave it to her daughter she noticed the creepy crawly stuck to it

Daily Mirror

Brit told she may never be able to walk again after horror holiday fall from balcony

The mother of Maddi Neale-Shankster has questioned the condition of the accommodation in Ko Pha-Ngan, Thailand, where the 21-year-old from Coventry, West Midlands, was staying

Daily Mirror

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Manchester Evening News

Urgent appeal to find missing woman thought to be in Manchester

West Midlands Police are working with Greater Manchester Police to help trace Emma

The Independent UK

Man cheats death after 70ft sinkhole swallows his garden

Dramatic pictures shows how the 15ft-wide hole swallowed up Harri Chadha’s front garden outside his home in Halesowen, West Midlands

The Independent UK

Dame Denise Lewis ‘blown away’ by New Year Honour

Lewis was president of Commonwealth Games England when the event was held in Birmingham and the West Midlands this summer, 22 years after her gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics

Birmingham Post

Birmingham Tech Week founder and chamber chief named in New Year Honours

Yiannis Maos and Sara Williams have been recognised for their contributions to the business world and local community while former Marston's chief is also among those honoured

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Daily Mirror

Huge 15ft sinkhole opens up in street forcing terrified families to flee their homes

A collapsed sewer has been blamed for the gaping hole that emerged at the end of November outside the block of flats in Dudley, West Midlands

Daily Mirror

Dramatic footage shows brave unarmed police chasing down teen gunman near school

Johniel Barret was carrying a loaded antique revolver close to a school in Birmingham when the car he was in was stopped by police. Footage captures him bolting and officers chasing him down

The Independent UK

Third man arrested on suspicion of murder over Boxing Day stabbing of footballer - OLD

West Midlands Police said a 22-year-old man was arrested at around 3am in London.

Daily Mirror

Police arrest third man suspected of murdering footballer Cody Fisher in night club

The 22-year-old suspect was held in London just before 3am on Thursday and would be questioned over the killing of Cody, West Midlands Police said

The Independent UK

All the rail strikes, staff shortages and engineering works causing train cancellations today

Great Western Railway, West Midlands Trains and London Northwestern Railway hit by walkouts

The Independent UK

Two men arrested on suspicion of murder of footballer Cody Fisher in Birmingham nightclub

West Midlands Police chief inspector praised the ‘good progress’ of the investigation into the murder

Birmingham Post

West Midlands business review of 2022 - part one: airport gigafactory, MasterChef on the move and Dragons' Den success

Our West Midlands Review of the Year kicks off with the approval of a huge new battery plant at Coventry Airport, a hit BBC show coming to Birmingham and success for fledgling chocolate maker

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