Saturday 22 February 2014
Detectives are urging the public to help them find an armed robber, with a possible artificial limb, who held up a Birmingham betting shop.
Police were called to William Hill’s on Chester Road after the late night raid, which saw staff threatened with a gun and forced to empty the safe.
The cashier was cleaning up the Erdington store, ready to close, when the two masked men rushed in and made their demands.
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Saturday 22 February 2014
A MAN has admitted letting a dangerous dog run loose in a residential street and jailed for beating another pet dog to death with a brick.
Panicked residents called police on January 20 after a large dog owned by Muneer Ahmed, from Priory Close in Smethwick, was spotted roaming aggressively through nearby Richmond Road.
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A man has appeared in court accused of raping and robbing a 21-year-old woman in the Hillfields area of Coventry in the early hours of last Saturday morning.
Police launched a major investigation after receiving a report of a serious sexual assault on Berry Street at around 4:25am on 15 February.
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A strong pungent smell, a humming noise and constantly closed curtains are often the tell tale signs of a cannabis factory.
And it was these clues that led to the seizure of over 250 cannabis plants from a property on George Road in Erdington yesterday (Thursday 20 February).
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A woman has admitted driving the wrong way along the Sandwell stretch of the M5 for four miles whilst under the influence of alcohol.
Katy Homer appeared before Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday (20 February) to answer a charge of dangerous driving and driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs, relating to an incident in the early hours of 4 December 2013.
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