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Beacon memorial thieves ‘should be sent to the front lines’
Matt Lloyd B’ham Mail 8 Mar 10
“Despicable” thieves who stripped a Great Barr war memorial of its copper roofing should be sent to the front lines in Afghanistan a leading councillor said. Coun Mike Bird, leader of Walsall Council, slammed the crooks who stole the metal from the Barr Beacon memorial, Beacon Road, leaving the structure vulnerable to the elements…