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Express & Star 28 Feb 11
Walsall town centre was brought to a standstill this afternoon when a suspect package was discovered near the bus station.
Roads and the town’s bus station were closed, the Civic Centre evacuated as well as buildings on Hatherton Road…
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Express & Star 11 Feb 11
Hundreds of people were evacuated after a Second World War bomb was handed in to Wednesbury police station – after being discovered by the father of Britain’s Got Talent star Connie Talbot.
Wednesbury bus station was closed, the town’s Morrisons supermarket evacuated and children and pensioners led to safety after police were alerted to the three foot-long shell…
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B'ham Mail 10 Feb 11
Wednesbury town centre has been reopened after a bomb was reported outside a police station.
Officers cordoned off a large area around Wednesbury police station after military ordnance was reported in the back of a van close to the station.
A member of the public walked into the police station just before 4pm today and told officers that they had seen a suspect package in a van in the car park next door…
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B'ham Mail 23 Nov 10
Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield after a suspicious package was discovered.
The A&E department was evacuated shortly after 8.20am and police closed Rectory Road at Bedford Road.
The public are advised to avoid the area and if Accident & Emergency services are required the nearest hospitals are Heartlands & Walsall Manor…
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Ben Goldby Mercury 25 Jul 10
Anti-terrorism police have been awarded an extra £1.5 million – despite under-spending their last budget by more than £150,000.
The West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) has been awarded the extra cash to help create new security roles at Birmingham International Airport…
Comment
Salma Yaqoob 7 Jul 10
Today is the fifth anniversary of the horrific bombings in London which claimed the lives of 52 innocent people and injured over 700 more. My thoughts and prayers are with all those who lost loved ones and all those whose lives were so cruelly affected by this murderous and immoral act.
7/7 was an attack on all of us, irrespective of race or religion. As the Muslim Council of Britain note ‘this was an attack on the very concept of an open pluralistic society and all those – Muslim and non-Muslim alike – who wish to be part of it. Among those killed there were four promising young Muslims who came from diverse backgrounds…
Features
Stuart Christie, Books Guardian 27 Mar 10
A new book by Alex Butterworth appearing in the wake of allegations of assassination by Israel’s Mossad and the British secret services’ involvement in torture, looks at some notable late-19th-century European revolutionaries including the so-called “Walsall Bomb plot” in 1892 to frame six anarchists, four of whom were jailed…
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Express & Star 25 Mar 10
A suspicious powder brought Wolverhampton’s Royal Mail delivery and sorting office to a standstill. No-one was allowed in or out of the city’s Sun Street mail centre, which deals with more than 13million items per week, after a suspicious powder spilled out of a package at around 8pm on Wednesday night. It is believed the substance discovered was a type of aluminium sulphate.
The problem has caused a “small proportion” of mail being posted out to areas other than Stoke-on-Trent, Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton to be delayed. Three workers also had to be decontaminated as a precaution.
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Dr Muqtedar Khan Asian News 17 Mar 10
Dr Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistani Islamic scholar visiting the United Kingdom, recently released a 600-page fatwa, or non-binding opinion in Islamic law, against terrorism. This fatwa might actually have an impact. It is comprehensive, direct and does not dodge any of the issues…
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Express & Star 18 Feb 10
Two hoaxers who sparked a terror alert and the evacuation of householders when they left a bogus bomb in an alleyway in Great Barr last October have been jailed…