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Advertiser 17 Feb 11
A ‘controlling bully’ who brutally punched and kicked his ex-wife in a jealous rage after finding text messages on her mobile telephone from another man has been sent to prison for 44 weeks.
Tousif Zaman, of Clewes Close, Palfrey, was handed the sentence after he admitted wounding and also driving while disqualified…
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Anuji Varma B'ham Mail 15 Feb 11
A randy waiter at a Birmingham balti house sent a snap of his MANHOOD to a female customer who had booked a party for her first wedding anniversary, it has been claimed.
Shocked Asiya Field, 22, of Walsall, contacted the lavish Akbar’s restaurant, on Hagley Road, to make the reservation for the special occasion and handed over her mobile number.
But she got more than she bargained for when just 30 minutes later she was bombarded with texts by an employee insisting that she “get to know” him…
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Express & Star 2 Feb 11
A teenage sex fiend who raped and throttled prostitutes in revenge for “ruining” his area was today beginning a 14-year jail sentence.
Grant Drury told police the girls were “dirty” and “stupid” and a blight on the All Saints area of Wolverhampton, traditionally known as a red light district…
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The Plastic Hippo 27 Jan 11
There can be no more dismal a task than being an Assistant Referee at a drawn game between Hereford United and Port Vale unless, of course, one has an interest in cider or pottery. Consider Sian Massey, a teacher from Coventry, a fully qualified referee and, gawd help us, a woman.
Some good old boys on Sky Sports decided that the game had “gone mad” because the FA had allowed a female to run the line at a game between Wolves and Liverpool. Some off-air “banter” between Richard Keys and pundit Andy Gray suggested that someone should explain the off side rules to Ms Massey. But the little woman needed no explanations and kept her pretty little head up and her flag down allowing Fernando Torres to score a perfectly legal and rather good goal. This prompted some resigned grunts from the cave men in the commentary box.
Unguarded off-air comments are nothing new…
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Ben Hurst B'ham Mail 24 Jan 11
A man who kept a brothel in Walsall town centre where police officers found two women wearing provocative clothing and a variety of sex toys has been jailed for 15 months.
Roger Dell, 43, ran “Walsall Lush” in Stafford Street where sexual services were on offer, and the court heard he had spent nearly £12,000 on advertising for the brothel…
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Kat Baldwyn B'ham Mail 25 Jan 11
Walsall Hospice is on the look out for brand new Calendar Girls for a photo shoot at Harden Primary School.
Groups representing Walsall companies are invited to take part in the Calendar Girls-style event, to help raise funds for the hospice…
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Alison Dayani B'ham Mail 21 Jan 11
A pregnant woman claimed she was refused a swine flu jab by a Walsall surgery – despite Government warnings that mums-to-be should have the inoculation.
Teacher Tracey Adams said she was turned away from Limes NHS Medical Centre in Birmingham Road, Walsall, because of a severe shortage of jab doses…
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Express & Star 31 Dec 10
Thousands of Walsall Council employees locked in an equal pay battle with town hall bosses are to be made offers in a bid to settle the dispute. But officials from the union Unite have advised their members not to agree terms because they say the offer is derisory.
The council is hoping to settle all potential pay claims over the next few months before it implements the national single status agreement in the summer. That scheme aims to iron out pay inequailities…
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ABC News 28 Dec 10
Ryleigh Shepherd was conceived in 1998, the same year as her 11-year-old twin sisters, but she wasn’t born until 2010.
The three girls from Walsall, in Great Britain, who were born more than a decade apart in two different centuries, are actually fraternal triplets born through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Ryleigh came from the same batch of embryos that had allowed her parents — Lisa and Adrian Shepherd — to give birth to twins Megan and Bethany…
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Express & Star 28 Dec 10
There were 10 new Christmas Day arrivals at Walsall Manor Hospital, of which seven were boys. Celebrating their first child, Taylor, were 28-year-old telesales worker Clair Witcomb and Carphone Warehouse employee Paul Davies, 29, of Marshall Road, Willenhall.
The Manor Hospital was selected to feature on the Channel 4 programme One Born at Christmas and head of midwifery Karen Palmer gave a live update on the number being born on Saturday…