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MAN SHOT IN JEWELLERY RAID A 34-year-old man who was shot twice in the leg in Birmingham was trying to escape from a gang of six armed robbers, detectives have said. The victim was approached by the masked gang who gunned him down on the corner of Unett Street and Great Hampton Row, Newtown, after demanding his jewellery. The Surrey man, who was visiting family in Newtown, is recovering in hospital. CRASH DRIVER 'CRITICAL' A motorist is fighting for his life in hospital after his car left a Worcestershire road and hit a tree. The four lanes of the A449, between Chatley and Hadley, were closed for four hours after the accident involving a Vauxhall Tigra Coupe. The man was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital where his condition is described as critical. NEW CARDIAC MACHINES FOR COUNTY Paramedics in Staffordshire have become the first to use new life-saving cardiac monitoring machines. The machines perform ECGs, administer blood clot-busting drugs and send doctors vital information about the condition of patients. The county's ambulance service has ordered 40 of the US-made £20,000 devices for its fleet of vehicles. MAN RESCUED FROM HOUSE BLAZE A Birmingham man has been rescued from his home after being trapped by a fire in a first floor bedroom. Firefighters brought the victim to safety and gave him oxygen outside his house in Thomas Street, Aston, following the rescue. West Midlands Fire Service are investigating the cause of the blaze, which broke out near the front door. MP SEEKS COTTAGE HOSPITAL Mike Foster, the Labour MP for Worcester, has called for a cottage hospital to be based in the city. Mr Foster claims a current lack of facilities for non-acute patients is leading to bed-blocking at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. He believes a community hospital would also provide improved care for patients recovering from treatment. BUSES TO CARRY POLICE POSTERS Birmingham's buses are to carry new police posters encouraging people to shop drug dealers. West Midlands Police's latest "Rat on a Rat" initiative comes in the wake of a rise in the number of people charged with trafficking cocaine and heroin. The posters will feature on more than 150 buses and shelters in and around the city over the next four weeks. DETECTIVE WILL NOT FACE CHARGES A senior West Midlands policewoman who was suspended following a relationship with an 86-year-old Solihull pensioner will not face any criminal charges. The Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales said Det Chf Supt Ellie Baker, 50, would face no action. Ms Baker remains the subject of an ongoing internal investigation into an unspecified matter. £600,000 RESTORATION FOR CENTRE The restoration of Walsall town centre is to continue with a £600,000 project to restore historic buildings. Properties along Lichfield Street and part of Lower Forster Street will be returned to their former glory when work starts later this year. Money for the three-year project has been provided jointly by English Heritage and the council. FAMILY 'SPARED' BY SMOKE ALARM A Coventry family are recovering from smoke inhalation after being rescued by firefighters from their burning home. West Midlands Fire Service said it is "highly unlikely" the parents and three children would have survived had they not been alerted by a smoke detector. It is believed the blaze at their home in Allesley Old Road started when a television caught fire. CHARITY BIDS TO PROTECT MEADOWS A new charity is to be launched which intends to help guarantee the preservation of lowland meadows throughout the West Midlands. Working For Wildlife, to be launched on Tuesday, aims to build on the conservation heritage of the League Against Cruel Sports throughout the UK. Nearly half of the nation's lowland meadows are found in central England.
8th. April 2003
WOMAN KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION Police are trying to establish how a car collided with a postal train on a level crossing in Worcestershire, killing a woman motorist. Despite the efforts of paramedics, the woman, who has not been named, was pronounced dead at the scene in Dunhampstead, Network Rail said. It said engineers had made checks and found no fault with the track. TEENAGER SHOT WITH AIRGUN A Coventry teenager is recovering in hospital after an air gun sniper shot him in the chest. The 13-year-old was walking with two friends in Edgwick Road when he was hit by a single round. Surgeons at an undisclosed hospital operated on him to remove the pellet. His condition is "poorly but stable", said a West Midlands Police spokesman. MAJORITY VERDICT ALLOWED An Old Bailey jury trying three Irishmen accused of plotting a Real IRA bombing in Birmingham has been told it can return majority verdicts. The jurors retired last Tuesday in the trial of Robert Hulme, 23, Aiden Hulme, 25, and Noel Maguire, 34. They have denied conspiring to cause two explosions in west London and another in Birmingham in 2001. PAIR ACCUSED OF TAKING FLOWERS A couple are appearing in court charged with stealing floral tributes placed outside the home of a Stoke-on-Trent soldier who was killed in Iraq. Andrew Clewes, 34, and Deborah Febery, 32, are re-appearing before Stoke magistrates accused of taking bouquets from the garden of Cpl Stephen Allbutt. He was one of two Staffordshire troops killed by "friendly fire" on March 24. COUNCIL WINS 'GAS WORK' RULING Leicestershire County Council's highway authority has won a landmark High Court ruling over the "late" completion of engineering work by a contractor. The action aimed to recover £111,500 from Transco in relation to understreet works to gas pipes. Many other cases involving millions of pounds were awaiting the outcome of the proceedings. SKILLED WORKER SHORTAGE One in five vacancies remain unfilled due to a shortage of skilled workers, according to a study by a Warwick University researcher. Vacancy rates in hotels and restaurants are twice as high as in manufacturing. Dr Andy Dickerson's report also found there was one vacancy for every two unemployed people, compared with one for every 10 a decade ago. PROJECT RESTORES RIVER HABITAT Work has begun to restore wildlife habitats on a 19-mile stretch of the River Monnow along the border between Herefordshire and Wales. The project, run by the Monnow Improvement Partnership, has attracted a £1m grant from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The scheme aims to boost the number of brown trout and grayling in the river. TAXI DRIVER STABBED IN NECK A taxi driver has been stabbed in the neck as he dropped off two passengers in Birmingham, police said. The 44-year-old man was detained in hospital after he was injured in St Andrews Road, Bordesley Green. A police spokesman said the private hire driver had picked up the two passengers near a pub in Coleshill Road before being attacked. OPERATION DATE IS 50 YEARS LATE Hospital bosses have apologised to a Malvern pensioner after arranging to take out her daughter's tonsils 50 years after they were removed. Peggy Houghton has received a new date for her daughter's tonsillectomy at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch despite her having them taken out in 1953. The 83-year-old said: "We have all had a good laugh about this." APPEAL IN PROSTITUTE RAPE CASE Detectives investigating the rape of a prostitute nearly a year ago in Northampton say the man they are trying to trace may be from Coventry. Police said that the suspect who subjected the 21-year-old woman to a "terrifying" ordeal told his victim he was called John. They want information on the man who was driving a white Ford Mondeo car. 9th. April 2003
TERRORISTS TO BE SENTENCED Five members of a Real IRA terror cell are to be sentenced for plotting a bombing campaign in Birmingham. Robert Hulme, 23, Aiden Hulme, 25, and Noel Maguire, 34, had denied conspiring to cause explosions in London and Smallbrook, Queensway, in 2001. James McCormack, 34, and John Hannan, 19, one of the youngest terrorists to appear in a UK court, had confessed. INQUEST OPENS INTO COACH DEATHS An inquest is being held into the deaths of six day-trippers from Worcestershire in a coach crash as they travelled back from France. The victims were in a party returning to Evesham when the vehicle overturned on the M25 in Buckinghamshire. The hearing at Aylesbury Coroner's Court is expected to focus on whether the driver fell asleep at the wheel. THOUSANDS OF JOBS FOR AREA About 23,000 jobs are expected to be created under a new Urban Regeneration Company in Sandwell, announced by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. The initiative aims to breathe new life into a corridor of land shadowing the Midland Metro route from Wednesbury through West Bromwich to Smethwick. About £1.6bn of public and private investment will be made over 15 years. WAR VETERAN'S WIFE THREATENED A 79-year-old Birmingham war veteran has described how a robber threatened his terrified wife with a kitchen knife, causing her to collapse. His 83-year-old wife is now said to be "poorly" in hospital. The robber told the pensioner, who did not want to be named, he could phone an ambulance, adding: "I wouldn't hurt her anyway - I'm a good Catholic." MAN SOUGHT IN ATTACK PROBE Police in Coventry have named a man they wish to trace in connection with an attack which left the victim with a ruptured spleen. Officers want to speak to Owen Robert Cameron, 23, about the assault near the city's Skydome in November last year. Cameron, a former member of the Royal Navy, is last known to have lived at an address in Honiton Road, Wyken. PAIR DENY TAKING FLOWERS A couple have denied stealing floral tributes placed outside the home of a Stoke-on-Trent soldier who was killed in Iraq. Andrew Clewes, 34, and Deborah Febery, 32, appeared before Stoke magistrates accused of taking bouquets from the garden of Cpl Stephen Allbutt. They were granted bail and are due to reappear at court on April 29. TURKEY JOBS UNDER THREAT The future of hundreds of jobs in Derbyshire - and millions of turkeys -hangs in the balance after the collapse of a turkey supplier. Brandons, which employs 1,400 staff, has been placed into the hands of receivers after foreign imports caused the price of its products to slump. Some 200 staff work at the company's HQ at Scropton with others across the UK. GRENADE LAUNCHER SHOCKS POLICE West Midlands police officers taking part in a firearms amnesty were stunned when a man handed in a tank-busting rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The Russian-built shoulder-launched weapon was surrendered at Brierley Hill police station near Dudley. Officers suspect the man acquired the launcher as a "trophy of war" during the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. 86-YEAR-OLD GIVEN NEW TENT A Polish war veteran who has lived in a tent in the middle of a busy ring road in Wolverhampton for 30 years has been given a new tent. Social services and the Territorial Army have replaced 86-year-old Josef Stawinoga's old tent with a new one. The man has a fear of confined spaces, brought on by his ordeal as a PoW during the Second World War.
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