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Off-duty female cop, 39, 'shoots dead another woman after she found her in an unmarked police car

Woman was found dead in an unmarked police car Friday night after being shot. The victim had been in the car with an off-duty Birmingham police detective at the time.




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Coronavirus could push vulnerable species like mountain gorillas and orangutans 'over the edge'

Coronavirus presents a 'clear and present danger' to wildlife that could push vulnerable species 'over the edge', a leading expert from Birmingham University warned last night.




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Severe weather and tornadoes forecast from South to East Coast affecting 4.5million

A string of severe storms and tornadoes will pummel Louisiana through the Tennessee Valley on Sunday, affecting some 4.5million people.




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Alison Hammond bakes her late mum's banana bread recipe live on This Morning

After fans noticed that she cooked the family recipe alongside a picture of her mum and a lit candle, she responded to Twitter users with a touching message




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Australia's tourism minister issues warning international travel unlikely to resume

Holidaymakers should avoid booking any international travel during the coronavirus crisis, warned Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham.




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Police chief left fighting for life with coronavirus shares image of moment he 'cried like a girl'

Phil Dolby, of West Midlands Police, was struck down with the killer bug a fortnight ago and said he'd never known an illness as bad as the one he was experiencing.




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Birmingham police name David White as prime suspect of arson at family home

Police are hunting for a fire starter who torched the home of a mum and her two young children on Easter Monday. The Birmingham family had to flee their semi-detached house during the blaze this week.




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Nurse reveals her skin is peeling off and her face is bruised from PPE

Jennifer McDowall, 27, who works as a Critical Care Nurse at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust has shared a series of TikTok videos showing her skin peeling off and her faced bruised.




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Dortmund confident they can beat Manchester United to a deal for Birmingham star Jude Bellingham

The Bundesliga club were competing with Manchester United to sign Bellingham, who does not turn 17 until June 29, at the end of the season, and were confident of winning the race.




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Manchester United 'confident of winning Jude Bellingham battle'

United are one of a host of top European clubs, including Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea, who are desperate to sign the 16-year-old this summer and are negotiating £35m deal.




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Police catch family enjoying kebab and chips in the street as they break coronavirus lockdown rules

West Midlands Police have released bodycam footage of officers confronting three different sets of people flouting strict lockdown rules in Birmingham from the Easter weekend onwards.




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Police chief leaves hospital ahead 26-day battle with coronavirus

Chief Superintendent Phil Dolby, of West Midlands Police, spent 26 days in hospital and was placed on a ventilator as he battled the deadly virus for 13 days in intensive care.




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Armed gang open fire with handguns outside a chicken shop in broad daylight shooting 

Hooded attackers are seen running across the street in Handsworth brandishing weapons and appearing to fire them at a group of males who then seek refuge in DFC Chicken.




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Life and Birth viewers are left emotional at baby's birth

The six-part BBC1 documentary, which premiered last night, follows mothers, partners and staff at three of Birmingham's busiest maternity hospitals in the weeks leading up to birth.




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Holly Willoughby downs a mojito during Alison Hammond This Morning segment

The presenter, 39, enjoyed the delicious beverage as she watched Alison make several delicious drinks live from her home in Birmingham.




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Doorbell camera shows delivery driver spitting on customer's porch

Corinne Howart, from Birmingham, caught the disgusting moment on her doorbell camera earlier this month after reviewing the footage. Ms Howart, who suffers from asthma said he is angry.




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Line of Duty star Stephen Graham set to appear in the next series of Peaky Blinders

Stephen Graham has revealed he was set to join the star-studded cast of Peaky Blinders before the COVID-19 pandemic brought filming to a standstill.  




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Jack Grealish raffles off shirt he wore when attacked by Birmingham fan to raise money for NHS

Jack Grealish has offered up the shirt he wore when he was assaulted by a Birmingham fan before scoring Aston Villa's winner to raise money for the NHS.




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Man, 53, who triggered armed police siege arrested 15 hours later over 'threats to kill' 

Officers were called to an address on Birmingham Road at 10.30pm last night following reports of a 'firearms incident'. A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a 15-hour siege.




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Alison Hammon gives fans a tour of her Birmingham home on This Morning

The presenter appeared live from her living room which boasts a wall covered with her mementos of her TV career, a sleek white dining table and large mirrors.




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Doctor spared jail for hit and run after telling judge he hoped to work at Nightingale hospitals

Doctor Ali Shah, 40, from Birmingham, (pictured left) drove at the victim and knocked him off his feet with his wing mirror when he 'saw red'. He drove off without checking if the elderly man was injured.




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Jack Grealish raises over £54,000 for NHS workers after auctioning off Second City derby shirt

The Aston Villa captain has auctioned off the famous No 10 shirt with all proceeds going to NHS Charities Together following the outbreak of the coronavirus.




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Paramedic, 22, returns to frontlines after recovering from coronavirus which left her with pneumonia

Lucy Fitton, 22, from Birmingham, said she is 'lucky to be alive' after contracting Covid-19 and then pneumonia, which left her bed-bound.




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Life and Birth viewers are left in awe of mother who 'pushed like a demon' through a 56-hour labour

First time mother Roo, a yoga teacher, was filmed in the final hours of her 56-hour labour at Birmingham Women's Hospital for last night's episode of BBC1's Life and Death.




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Australians WILL get a bit of winter sun: Domestic travel should be up and running by July

Australia's Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham is hopeful restrictions on interstate travel will be eased by July, with destinations like Thredbo and the Gold Coast to be opened up.




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Pret A Manger will reopen 71 more stores for takeaway and delivery from May 11

The cafe chain temporarily closed all stores on March 21 prior to the lockdown, but has been gradually opening sites across the country for takeaway and delivery.




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Police officer bodyslams a woman in an Alabama Walmart 'for refusing to wear a face mask'

A woman in Birmingham, Alabama, was slammed onto the floor of a Walmart store for allegedly not wearing a face mask




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Woman whose flight was diverted after going into labour 10 weeks early is back in UK with son

Lauren McLean gave birth to Oscar in the most traumatic circumstances at the beginning of March and her ordeal only ended when they flew back home to Birmingham at the end of April.




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Elderly 'bullied to stay in their flats'

Residents at a social housing complex in Birmingham have complained they are living under 'concentration camp' conditions enforced by managers over-reacting to the coronavirus.




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Taliban vow to 'fight for 100 years' after Trump calls off Camp David talks

Taliban leaders claimed they had already rejected Trump's overtures and vowed that 'we will continue our jihad' nearly 18 years after they were forced from power in Afghanistan.




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Trump says peace talks are 'dead' and America is clobbering Taliban like never before

'They did something that they sure as hell shouldn't have done,' Trump told reporters at the White House. He said he ordered the Pentagon to hit the Taliban 'harder than we've hit them in over ten years.'




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Author who penned first ever oral history of 9/11 admits he 'cried almost every day' compiling it

The Only Plane in the Sky, by journalist Garrett M. Grath, focuses on the men and women who experienced first-hand the unprecedented drama of that tragic day in New York on September 11, 2001.




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It's an army chair! Craftsman turns military uniforms into furniture upholstery 

Dougie Smith, 50, from Saffron Walden, Essex, has been inundated with orders to make the bespoke furniture for former servicemen since he created his first masterpiece.




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Taliban vows to keep fighting and says Donald Trump will 'regret' ending Afghanistan peace talks 

The Taliban (alleged member, right) vowed to keep fighting US forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday adding that US President Donald Trump (left) would 'regret' abandoning recent peace talks.




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Former Taliban hostage insists his American wife ASKED to be beaten with a broom as he denies abuse

Joshua Boyle (top left), 36, is on trial in Ottawa for abusing Caitlan Coleman (bottom left). The couple spent five years as hostages in Afghanistan, where they were kidnapped.




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We will have to 'waterboard the corgi' to find out if PM lied to the Queen jokes Rory Stewart

The former International development Secretary made the quip about the highly controversial torture technique as he was grilled about the PM's closure of Parliament.




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Taliban says its 'doors are open' to resuming stalled talks with Washington hours after killing 48

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai made the comments after 48 people died in two Afghanistan attacks. Donald Trump called off negotiations earlier this month when a US soldier died.




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At least 30 civilians are killed after US-backed drone strike against ISIS targets farmers

Forty others were injured in the Wednesday night air strike conducted by the Afghan security forces, with U.S. air support, in the Nangarhar province.




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15 injured in blast outside Afghan mosque being used as polling station in presidential election

A police officer and several election officials were struck and three are in a critical condition at a hospital in Kandahar. The upsurge in violence began after Taliban talks with the US broke down.




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Former soldier Jordan Wylie rows solo across the world's most dangerous body of water

Jordan Wylie, one of the stars of C4's Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, rowed across the pirate-infested Bab-el-Mandeb Strait from Djibouti to Yemen, on a gruelling journey that took him over 13 hours.




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Top Al-Qaeda commander Asim Omar was killed in joint US-Afghan raid on Taliban in Helmand province  

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Asim Omar died alongside six of his fellow terrorists, including Omar's courier to the Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in southern Helmand.




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PIERS MORGAN: Information shared online is not private, Coleen

PIERS MORGAN: Amid the spat between WAGs Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy one thing is clear - how can anyone think posting online to one person or 367 is going to ensure their privacy?




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Love Island Australia's new hunk - soldier-turned-model Aaron Deacon Shaw

Four ladies were left single on Thursday's recoupling Love Island Australia after The Bomb Squad.




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Taliban fighters pose for photos wearing heavy make-up and holding hands in rare images

The bizarre Warholesque images were uncovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, at the height of the war in 2002 by German photographer Thomas Dworzak.




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PICTURED: US Navy veteran's life-changing penis transplant that made him 'feel whole again'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Images from a New England Journal of Medicine case report reveal, step-by-step, the transplant process that gave 'Ray,' a veteran, a new penis and scrotum.




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Injured Iraq and Afghanistan war heroes are being shut out of 'half-empty' £350m military hospital

Military charities, top brass and former SAS hero Chris Ryan call for the Defence National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) in Nottinghamshire to be opened to veterans.




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Pardoned Army First Lt. Clint Lorance says 'I love you, sir' to Trump in first interview

Pardoned war criminal Army First Lt. Clint Lorance gave an emotional thank you to President Donald Trump saying 'I love you sir' in his first interview since being released from prison.




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Marine E accused of murdering Taliban fighter reveals his identity

British marine Sam Deen (pictured), who up until now has been known only as Marine E, has spoken for the first time on the mental toll of being court martialled over the killing in 2011.




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RAF officer CLEARED of attempted murder by strangling

An RAF officer who admitted strangling his Squadron Leader partner after she threatened to leave him, walks free from court today after the jury cleared him of attempted murder in just three hours.




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Sydney boxer with Al Qaeda tattooed on his arm is put on a terror watchlist

Edris Barez (pictured), 26, will be closely watched by authorities because of his close links to Islamic extremists, including the brother of dead Australian-born ISIS boss Mohamed Elomar.