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5 days ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Andrew Dawkins |Tom Edwards
Image source, Worcester CathedralImage caption, The nest has featured in a 24-hour livestream A second peregrine chick born at a nesting site at Worcester Cathedral, which has featured on a webcam, has died. Parents Peter and Peggy produced four eggs at the cathedral, with the first hatching on Easter Sunday, but one did not hatch and there is now only a single bird left.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Dawkins |Alex McIntyre |Elizabeth Glinka
Talks to end a strike by bin workers in Birmingham has ended without a deal. The Unite union said negotiations would resume next week, although it offered to continue talking over Easter. The strike has been running for more than five weeks and the union said a deal "would be much closer" if promises made by the council in interviews would be put in writing.
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2 months ago | 
bbc.com | Andy Giddings |Andrew Dawkins
Appeal to buy artificial legs for four-year-oldAndy Giddings & Andrew DawkinsFamily photoKaylan's dad, Tom, said he would "walk to the end of the earth for him"The father of a four-year-old boy who had to have both of his legs amputated is aiming to raise £100,000 to pay for artificial legs for him as well as his ongoing care. Kaylan, from Coventry, was taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital on 14 December with septic shock and spent more than a month in intensive care.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Adam Green |Andrew Dawkins
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Dawkins
Search queryRembrandt etching exhibition to open in cityAndrew Dawkins - BBC News, West MidlandsThu, January 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM UTCAn exhibition of etchings by the 17th Century artist Rembrandt will go on show at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery later this year. It will be the first time his etchings have been brought out of the Netherlands as a collection, Birmingham Museums said.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Dawkins
Pupils from an academy trust were invited to Buckingham Palace to perform music for King Charles at an event commemorating the lives of people affected by the Holocaust. Four academies in Birmingham are run by Core Education Trust, which created a project to educate children about the Holocaust, where millions of mostly Jewish people were murdered during World War Two.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Giles Latcham |Andrew Dawkins
The regulator of a landfill site where noxious gases give off a foul stench has said it has received more than 760 complaints in one day. Walleys Quarry in Silverdale, Staffordshire, was served a closure notice in November after the Environment Agency (EA) said there was a risk of "significant long-term pollution". Some residents have linked pollution there to instances of ill health in the area, leading to years of protests, legal rows and EA scrutiny.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Dawkins
A tribute has been released to Donell Goodall, a cyclist who died following a suspected hit-and-run collision. The 25-year-old was struck by a car on Brandwood Park Road in Birmingham on the evening of 3 January. He died in hospital a few days later. "Donell was a family man and for him everything was about his son who is just three years-old," his family said. West Midlands Police has said it believed the crash involved a silver BMW and the driver failed to stop at the scene.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
msn.com | Andrew Dawkins |Gavin Kermack
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Paul Rogers |Andrew Dawkins
A solar farm to power about 3,000 homes could be built on a rural site in Shropshire if plans are approved. The proposals, from G Power Solar Ltd, are for a 24.5 hectare (60.5 acre) site at The Beeches, off Alkington Road, near to the A41, close to Whitchurch. Sheep grazing would continue at the site around the panels, which have a lifespan of about 40 years, Rachael Leather, from Atticus Planning, said.
