Gary Gibbon
May conjures image of Corbyn going naked into negotiating chamber
It did wonders for her connection with white, working-class voters and she is hoping to rekindle that after a dodgy time in the polls.
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£5,000 reward offered in double killing manhunt
West Midlands Police have offered a £5,000 reward in the hunt for their main suspect in the double killing of a young woman and her mother, as officers insisted they did their “absolute best” to prevent it. Janbaz Tarin is wanted in connection with the stabbing of his former partner, Raneem Oudeh, and her mother Khaola Saleem. Officers revealed that Ms Oudeh had phoned them…
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Interest rates rise above levels set before financial crisis
Interest rates are today the highest they’ve been in nine years. The rise – announced by the Bank of England earlier – takes them from 0.5 to 0.75 per cent. That’s back above the level set by the Bank of England just after the financial crisis in 2008. Our Political Correspondent, Michael Crick has travelled…
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FactCheck: Michael Fabricant’s apartheid flag
Conservative backbencher Michael Fabricant is in the headlines today after being accused of sending an Islamophobic tweet about the Mayor of London. The MP – famous for his distinctive blond hair and reality TV appearances – posted a cartoon showing a balloon with Sadiq Khan’s face on it having sex with a pig. (He deleted…
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Tories benefit from Ukip collapse
The one party with not much to celebrate today is Ukip. The Tories appear to have been the main beneficiary of its collapse in many areas, and especially in the West Midlands. Dudley and Walsall, traditional Labour towns, now have as many Tory councillors as Labour ones.
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Mini beast from the east hits UK
No one is blaming Russia for the weather but it has displayed a touch of Siberia. There has been more snow as the icy “mini beast from the east” continues to cause disruption to road, rail and air travel. There is an amber weather warning in place in south-west England, south-east Wales and West Midlands…
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Violent crime levels soaring, according to Home Office figures
These include offences involving knives or a gun. We’re in the west midlands where crime went up by 14% last year.
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Carillion goes into liquidation
There are talks going on now with the members of the COBRA crisis committee, but this is not a crisis meeting, insists No 10 tonight. Carillion had government contracts worth £1.7 billion, from the rail network to hospitals and schools. But amid a series of profit warnings and mounting debts, the construction giant has collapsed, putting thousands of jobs at…
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Lynnette Kelly and Victor Adebowale on drug consumption rooms
West Midlands Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Lynnette Kelly, and Lord Victor Adebowale, the chief executive of Turning Point discuss homelessness and drug abuse.
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Servicemen arrested in neo-Nazi probe
Four serving members of the British Army have been arrested for allegedly preparing acts of terror by being members of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action. West Midlands Police said there was “no threat to the public’s safety” and added the arrests were made as part of an “intelligence-led” operation.
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Marcia Shakespeare: ‘I hope injunction will deter gang violence’
Leading anti-gun campaigner Marcia Shakespeare, whose daughter Letisha was an innocent victim of a drive-by shooting in 2003, and West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson, discuss the injunction imposed on Birmingham gang members.
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Footage appears to show a police officer kick a man
West Midlands police have held an initial inquiry into a video which was widely shared on social media, showing an Asian man apparently being struck with a baton and knocked to the ground during an arrest by plain clothes officers. The force said three constables had been removed from frontline duties but not suspended.
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Breast cancer surgeon Ian Paterson jailed for unnecessary operations
A breast cancer surgeon who lied to patients and carried out unnecessary operations has been jailed for 15 years.
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Will young people turn out to vote?
After 8 years of austerity, paying for pensioner benefits and social care have become issues of fairness. So has Theresa May’s controversial manifesto stirred conflict between the generations? We’ve been in Walsall in the West Midlands, talking it over with a 77-year-old pensioner and a factory worker in her 20s.
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Unite accuses MPs of interference
The Unite union has accused a group of West Midlands MPs of “extraordinary, unprecedented interference” in the union’s democracy, on the day that ballot papers go out to members to vote in the leadership election for Britain’s biggest union.
