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Couple forced to remortgage to pay £23k vet bill after pup 'ripped apart'
Lynn Holdom and Alan Bamford have been left trying to remortgage their home to pay for their dog’s life-saving treatment - otherwise they will be forced to sell their house
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'Fit and healthy' mum died after 'significant' hospital failures, inquest hears
Tracey Farndon was pronounced dead after a failure to properly identify and escalate signs of sepsis on her arrival at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, an inquest concluded
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Heart-shaped balloons and tributes placed at park where mum found dead
An array of pink, orange, yellow and white bouquets were seen beside two heart-shaped balloons in Elmdon Country Park in Solihull, West Midlands, where the body of "beautiful" Juliette Ryan was discovered on Friday at 10am
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Dad with full-time job says housing crisis means he must live in his car
Homeless dad-of-two Andrew Reynolds, who last week helped save a drowning man in a selfless act of bravery, has been forced to live in his car for the last six months
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Bungling cocaine dealers found with £100k cash stashed inside Lidl plastic bag
Birmingham criminal Olsian Vogli and Londoner Orest Malushi have been jailed for almost eight years after stashing £100,000 drug money inside a Lidl carrier bag
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Healthy 27-year-old engineer's heartbreaking question after diagnosis
In a last-ditch attempt to extend his life through private treatment, a GoFundMe page was established to raise £80,000 - and nearly £30,000 has already been raised
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Mum's terror as she's bitten by 'out of control' dog and owner flees scene
Warning graphic images. A woman said she was bitten by an "out of control" dog in Birmingham that left her arm bleeding heavily, and the owner ran off when she and her husband said they would call the police
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Mum says mouldy flat has forced daughter to be off sick from school for 50 days
Harmony Dugmore, 22, from Lichfield, in living with her children in a property so affected by mould a paramedic wrote a letter expressing concern about their health
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'Bright' teen died after doctors missed treatable tumour for seven years
Adam Ali, 17, would “likely still be here today” had the tumour been caught in time - but tests to spot the cancer were botched on three separate occasions
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Brit must pay £40,000 to return home after being injured in accident on holiday
Charline Edwards suffered spinal injuries after a freak accident on holiday in Cape Verde, and would need to pay £40'000 to return home on a medically-assisted flight
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Brit tourist trapped on holiday after being smashed by freak giant wave on beach
Charline Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, has been left unable to walk and will need a flight that will allow her to lie on a stretcher after she was hit by a freak wave in Cape Verde
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'I had to pull my daughter out of school due to bullies - then they attacked me'
Jerome Foulger says the incident at a bus stop in the Northfield area of Birmingham has left him a changed man after he claimed the teen "came at me like an animal"
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Mum fears she won't live to see son grow up after devastating diagnosis
Kalie Bishop has been issued a heartbreaking prognosis after being told she has metastatic cancer - it comes less than a year after the mum underwent gruelling breast cancer surgery
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Man who punched Jack Grealish found dead after prison time for invading pitch
Paul Mitchell, who notoriously ran onto the pitch during an Aston Villa derby in 2019, was found dead in his home earlier this year - now an inquest has shed more light on the tragedy
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Child 'mauled by bulldog' as cops seize pet after attack
A child was 'grappled to the floor by a bulldog' in the Washwood Heath area of Birmingham yesterday. Paramedics rushed to the scene to assess the kid and cops seized the dog
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Mums chain themselves to community's trampoline to stop council from removing it
The parents in Bartley Green. Birmingham, clubbed together to buy the £600 trampoline to keep their kids away from the roads - now the council says they don't want to risk being sued over it
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Mum breaks nose falling onto pavement as developers say 'it's not a hazard'
Sharon Clarke, from Longbridge, Birmingham, complained to property developers St Mowden, which said 'no obvious hazards' were found at the site where Sharon fell
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Residents of cul-de-sac plagued by gang assaults and sex attacks living in fear
One dad in the Druids Heath crime hotspot keeps a weapon in the doorway and has cameras covering every angle, while other residents say that they are too scared to walk their own streets
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'Hippy crack' warning as medic keeps seeing 'excruciating pain' side effect
Consultant podiatrist Abid Hussain has warned Brits about the dangerous laughing gas trend that is 'plaguing' parts of Britain as he has seen patients develop severe symptoms