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Now ok, the water won't come from Welsh reservoirs - rather from boreholes beneath Birmingham - but, so the argument goes, without the Welsh water, they wouldn't have 30 million litres a day to spare for Anglian.
BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets
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Bowyer has received one other yellow card so far this season - in Birmingham's 2-2 draw against Bolton on 29 August.
BBC: Lee Bowyer issues apology to West Brom fan
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There have been plenty of other surprises since she was elected an MP in 1983 for Ladywood in Birmingham but none more so when she revealed she had a fully grown son - a fact that had previously escaped everybody's attention.
BBC: Clare Short
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After I qualified for the high school Jeopardy try-outs, it was my dad who drove me down to Birmingham, Alabama so that I could give it a whirl.
FORBES: Thanks, Dad.
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So the 2, 000 odd cars being built in Birmingham this year - which should rise to 4, 000 next year - can be put together by just 30 or 40 employees.
BBC: Chinese Premier backing the euro and the UK