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Vicious owl terrorises kids and pensioners - and injured residents 'fear leaving home'

A neighbourhood in the West Midlands is being terrorised by an aggressive owl that keeps swooping down from the sky and viciously attacking people outside of their homes

Daily Mirror

Mum's cancer tragedy after mansplaining doctor bets mortgage she is too young to have it

Beth Doherty, of West Midlands, said she felt like she was wasting her doctor's time when he mansplained why she didn't have cancer leaving her undiagnosed for six months

Daily Mirror

Butcher surgeon Ian Paterson could have hundreds more victims after old database found

Surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed in 2017 on 17 counts of wounding with intent, but 1,500 other patients have now been found following a review at Spire hospitals in the West Midlands

Daily Mirror

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Further 1,500 patients of breast surgeon Ian Paterson to be recalled for investigation

Paterson is known to have treated thousands at Spire Parkway hospital and Spire Little Aston hospital in the West Midlands between 1997 and 2011

The Independent UK

Further 1,500 patients of breast surgeon Ian Paterson to be recalled

Paterson is known to have treated thousands at Spire Parkway hospital and Spire Little Aston hospital in the West Midlands between 1997 and 2011.

The Independent UK

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

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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

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

Ambulance workers announce 10 further days of strikes

The action will involve Unite's members in the North West, North East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales and Northern Ireland

The Telegraph

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

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

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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

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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.

The Independent UK

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

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Daily Mirror

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

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

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

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