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Student charged with Sandwell College bomb hoax

A student has been charged with making a bomb hoax to Sandwell College.

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Scott McLaughlin, 20, from Cavendish Road, Edgbaston in Birmingham was arrested by officers yesterday ? the same day as the threats were made via social media.

He has been charged with the offence of a bomb hoax.

The case is not being linked to any of the recent telephone hoax call crimes at schools in the West Midlands.

He was bailed to appear at Sandwell Magistrates Court on Friday, February 26.

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