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Anger as graves 'vandalised and desecrated' by 'heavy-handed' cemetery workers
Tracey Kelly, 58, slammed contractors who cut the grass at Birmingham's Sutton New Hall Cemetery where her father and partner are both buried following the incident
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Traffic wardens cornered, punched and brutally battered for 'doing their job'
Disturbing footage shows one traffic warden being kneed in the face outside a restaurant in Sparkhill, Birmingham, while another is surrounded by three men who throw punches at him
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'A number plate I bought for £120 kickstarted career that made me a millionaire'
Rod Sheilds bought his first number plate in 1981, and claims that the purchase gave him the spring board to build a multi-million pound property portfolio - saying it was “all bought on that one plate”
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'We live on UK's dirtiest road with giant rats and waste you can see from space'
Locals have put up with fly-tipped rubbish, giant rats and disgusting human waste at the back of their homes for a decade, and now they're fed up of the council 'doing nothing'
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The tower block where families are left gagging from 'smell of sewage and death'
Pleck House tower block in Birmingham has been left stinking of sewage due to a blocked waste pipe for weeks and the foul smell has left residents gagging
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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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Tower block hell - where 'teeth are knocked out' and locals 'perform lewd acts'
Horror stories from the trouble-hit tower block include a resident being attacked from behind with a metal bar, open use of Class-A drugs in the stairwells, and even people having sex around communal bins
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Homeowner who built house on driveway forced to tear it down in planning row
Mr Singh's family previously said they were using the 'mini-property' as a gym and were defiant it was staying put. But the homeowner has significantly reduced the structure of the approved garage.
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Fury as more than 50 'ugly' bollards spring up to stop school run parking mayhem
Neighbours living near Meadows Primary School were confused by the decision to install three rows of 60 bollards instead of a fence and claim the posts are an an 'unnecessary eyesore'