
Isabelle Bates
Journalist at Birmingham Mail
Journalist at BirminghamLive covering the Black Country and Shropshire. Views my own but feel free to share ✨ email me: [email protected]
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4 days ago |
birminghammail.co.uk | Isabelle Bates
The drug factory was found after a member of the public approached a police officerCannabis plants were found by police near RAF Cosford(Image: West Mercia Police)A massive cannabis farm has been dismantled following its discovery in Shropshire. More than 1,000 cannabis plants were discovered in a derelict building near RAF Cosford. Officers found the site on Friday, May 30, after a member of the public raised concerns about the property on Neachley Lane.
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4 days ago |
birminghammail.co.uk | Isabelle Bates
Sara Morris was caught out after pictures of her running 10k races were shared on FacebookSara Morris (Image: Instagram/Stone Master Marathoners)People have slammed the 'audacity' of a benefit cheat mum who falsely claimed more than £20,000. Sara Morris duped the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) into thinking she was so unwell she struggled to leave the house or look after herself.
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5 days ago |
birminghammail.co.uk | Isabelle Bates
A CCTV image of a man police wish to speak to has been sharedPolice want to speak to this man following an incident in a shop in Cannock (Image: Staffordshire Police)Shop workers were racially abused during a scary ordeal in Cannock, police have said. The staff werepunched and had items thrown at them during the incident on Hednesford Road. It came after a man was told that they could not top-up his gas and electric after he entered the store just after 12.30pm on Thursday, May 8.
Woman threatened by group of children for second time as they threaten to 'finish what they started'
5 days ago |
birminghammail.co.uk | Isabelle Bates
The woman says she was approached by a group of boys in a parkA general view of Central Forest Park in Hanley(Image: Stoke Sentinel)A woman has said that she was threatened for the second time by a group of school children in a park. The woman, who wishes not to be named, was approached by five teens just 10 days after they first threatened her. She says the group warned they would ‘finish what they started’ during the terrifying confrontation, and one said they had a 'shank'.
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5 days ago |
birminghammail.co.uk | Isabelle Bates
Mitchell Taylor messaged several accounts of girls under the age of 16Mitchell TaylorA man has avoided an immediate prison sentence after he tried to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex. Mitchell Taylor messaged several accounts of girls under the age of 16. He began speaking to 'Ellie' who he planned to meet at Stoke Railway Station on May 28, 2021. But Taylor, who was 22 at the time, found that he had been duped by a paedophile hunter group.
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