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Police launch appeal after designer coat and bank card stolen from car in Dudley

Police have launched an appeal after a car was broken into and a coat and bank card was stolen.

West Midlands Police have released this image of a man it said it wants to speak to. Photo: West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster with officers from Operation Prosper in Walsall. PIC: Gurdip Thandi LDR

Home Office remains silent over West Midlands Police force being ‘short changed’ and ‘ripped off’

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Paramedics tell murder trial they saw no marks on neck of man alleged to have hanged himself

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The case was heard at Telford Magistrates Court

'Primal Instincts? You acted like wild animals' judge tells Wolverhampton thugs who smashed up home and cars with hammer

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The car was taken off the road after the driver was found to be in possession of cannabis and the car having numerous dangerous faults. Photo: Staffordshire Police Road Crime Team

Car taken off road in Staffordshire after driver found in possession of cannabis

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West Midlands Police is asking for public help with finding Shane Wellington. Photo: West Midlands Police

Police launch appeal to trace wanted man with links to Walsall

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Mohammed Ibrahim has pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. Photo: West Midlands Police

Man admits killing mother and daughter in collision in Birmingham

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Two arrests after drugs, cash and imitation firearm recovered in Dudley

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Police are trying to trace the owner of suspected stolen property found in a van in Stafford

Man arrested on suspicion of murder in Birmingham as police continue search for other suspects

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Man arrested and woman taken to hospital following stabbing incident on Wolverhampton road

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Wolverhampton Crown Court (PA)

Perverted Walsall teaching assistant who used disabled boys for depraved sexual games 'could have abused 81 more children'

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Teenagers arrested in Dudley as part of car key burglary investigation

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Man arrested over series of burglaries across Black Country

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Damien Gloster

Dangerous and callous sex offender assaulted victims on Birmingham train network

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Ghulam Haider

Dudley man admits to killing HGV driver as he was broken down on M6

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The driver being arrested after police found drugs and a stolen car key on him as well as a balaclava and blade.

Police arrest man near Sandwell over car key burglary and find wraps of Class A drugs

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A Morrisons sign

Police appeal after attempted robbery on Morrisons cash machine in Staffordshire

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Cabinet meeting

‘Trade deal needed urgently to save 150,000 livelihoods’ senior minister says

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A handheld SSE smart meter for household energy usage is held next to an electricity meter displaying a balance

Energy suppliers pay out £7m after overcharging 34,000 customers

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A British Airways Boeing plane at Heathrow airport

British Airways owner IAG buys 32 new Boeing planes from US amid trade deal

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Addenbrooke’s University Hospital

Mothers of patients of suspended surgeon seek meeting with Health Secretary

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Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds

Jobs ‘days’ away from being lost without US deal, suggests Reynolds

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US President Donald Trump meeting Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the Oval Office at the White House

Key points of the UK-US trade deal explained

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Kevin Beresford has devoted 12 months entirely to the industrial action blighting his home city for his calendar called "Rats The Size of Cats".

Britain's 'dullest man' selling merchandise dedicated to the Birmingham bin strikes

Birmingham|May 7

The Royal Mint VE Day commemorative 50p coin

Coins to mark 80 years since VE Day launched by Royal Mint

Viral news|Apr 30

Stephen Lappin smiling while holding a defibrillator

Runner who had cardiac arrest at race to compete in same event a year later

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Did The Simpsons predict Birmingham bin strikes? Social media users believe so

Birmingham|Apr 12

Blues and Villa fans spotted at WWE

Aston Villa and Birmingham City fans spotted at WWE 'every week' - leaving fans flabbergasted

Aston Villa|Mar 26

CCTV shows Shane O'Malley and an accomplice raiding Hansons Auctioneers building in Derbyshire

BBC Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson's auction house targeted by hammer-wielding ram-raid crook in £21,000 raid

Military troops stand in formation in Red Square

Russia’s Victory Day parade marks 80th anniversary of defeat of Nazi Germany

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The new Pope waves at the Vatican

Pope Leo XIV to celebrate first Mass after election as Francis’s successor

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Man stands in the window of a scorched building

Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire overnight

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A family waits for transportation as they leave following overnight shelling from Pakistan at Gingal village in Uri district, Indian controlled Kashmir

Pakistan denies Indian accusations of attacks on military bases

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Photo provided by the North Korean government showing what it says a drill of long-range artillery and missile systems at North Korea’s eastern coast

North Korea says Kim Jong Un supervised missile tests

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The clinic where Maradona underwent surgery

Psychiatrist testifies she has no regrets over treatment of Diego Maradona

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