First - Birmingham City Council was forced to apologise after sending Council Tax letters which caused recipients 'anxiety'. The letters asked residents to fill in an online form or face having their single person discount cancelled. Critics pointed out the letters may have worried those who aren't able to access the internet.
Next - Counter-terrorism officers have charged a second teenager in the West Midlands as part of an ongoing investigation. The eighteen year old suspect from Birmingham is expected to appear in Westminster Crown Court.
And finally - around a hundred passengers were left stuck at Birmingham Airport for up to five hours after a flight was cancelled due to a bad smell. Travellers hoping to catch the EasyJet flight from Birmingham to Geneva were told to disembark the aircraft after the pilot detected an unidentified "funny smell".
Next - Counter-terrorism officers have charged a second teenager in the West Midlands as part of an ongoing investigation. The eighteen year old suspect from Birmingham is expected to appear in Westminster Crown Court.
And finally - around a hundred passengers were left stuck at Birmingham Airport for up to five hours after a flight was cancelled due to a bad smell. Travellers hoping to catch the EasyJet flight from Birmingham to Geneva were told to disembark the aircraft after the pilot detected an unidentified "funny smell".
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00:00 Hello there, here are your top news stories for Birmingham Now.
00:05 First, Birmingham City Council was forced to apologise after sending council tax letters
00:09 which caused recipients anxiety. The letters asked residents to fill in an online form
00:14 or face having their single person discount cancelled. Critics pointed out the letters
00:18 may have worried those who aren't able to access the internet.
00:21 Next, counter-terrorism officers have charged a second teenager in the West Midlands as
00:26 part of an ongoing investigation. The 18-year-old suspect from Birmingham is expected to appear
00:31 in Westminster Crown Courts.
00:34 And finally, around 100 passengers were left stuck at Birmingham Airport for up to five
00:38 hours after a flight was cancelled due to a bad smell. Travellers hoping to catch the
00:43 easy jet flight from Birmingham to Geneva were told to disembark the aircraft after
00:47 the pilot detected an unidentified funny smell.
00:49 Those are your Birmingham headlines for now, and that's you up to date.
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