Big bang near a mosque in Tipton.

Big bang near a mosque in Tipton.

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Shaw Tarse

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31,543 posts

203 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Reports on local radio...
Six streets evacuated!

vixen1700

22,853 posts

270 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Sky says:

Debris and nails have been found at the scene of a loud explosion in Tipton, West Midlands

TheEnd

15,370 posts

188 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/07/12/loud...

No one is sure what it is yet, or what happened.

FourWheelDrift

88,483 posts

284 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Methodist Church right next door to it.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=binfield+street+t...

Maybe the Baptists are to blame.

Digga

40,295 posts

283 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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As long as Mad O'Rourke's Pie Factory is safe.

Joking aside, not good news at all. I sincerely hope
  1. no one was hurt
  2. it wasn't deliberate

Shaw Tarse

Original Poster:

31,543 posts

203 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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It's now being treated as a "terrorist incident"

Mr_B

10,480 posts

243 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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If it is what it seems, very sad given it was Lee Rigby's funeral today and in light of what his family said about a terrorist act having failed.

rohrl

8,725 posts

145 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Hope no-one is injured.

Every time I see a news story which mentions Tipton I always expect to see a comment from Councillor Hugo Guthrie, but there’s no word from the West Mids visionary on this one so far.

danjama

5,728 posts

142 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Sometimes it feels like this country is turning into the middle east.

RZ1

4,332 posts

206 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Being treated as terrorist attack

The Nur

9,168 posts

185 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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danjama said:
Sometimes it feels like this country is turning into the middle east.
We're all doomed.

scenario8

6,558 posts

179 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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danjama said:
Sometimes it feels like this country is turning into the middle east.
I'm sure this weather won't hold for too long.

dudleybloke

19,800 posts

186 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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has Stephen Hawking been informed?

joking aside, this is just down the road from me.
its a couple of hundred yards from the homes of the tipton Taliban.
the area around victoria park has been troubled for years. anyone familiar with the area will know what i mean.
hopefully its a just a random nutter who gets caught quickly and theres no further incidents.

dudleybloke

19,800 posts

186 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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rohrl said:
Hope no-one is injured.

Every time I see a news story which mentions Tipton I always expect to see a comment from Councillor Hugo Guthrie, but there’s no word from the West Mids visionary on this one so far.
i was living in tipton when viz started taking the piss out of it.
made me very very proud.

Mr_B

10,480 posts

243 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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dudleybloke said:
has Stephen Hawking been informed?

joking aside, this is just down the road from me.
its a couple of hundred yards from the homes of the tipton Taliban.
the area around victoria park has been troubled for years. anyone familiar with the area will know what i mean.
hopefully its a just a random nutter who gets caught quickly and theres no further incidents.
Who are the Tipton Taliban ?

Jasandjules

69,867 posts

229 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Mr_B said:
Who are the Tipton Taliban ?
Whoever they were they may now be spread all over the countryside...

dudleybloke

19,800 posts

186 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Mr_B said:
Who are the Tipton Taliban ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipton_Three

they got some free orange overalls and a holiday in cuba.

Lucas CAV

3,022 posts

219 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Mr_B said:
dudleybloke said:
has Stephen Hawking been informed?

joking aside, this is just down the road from me.
its a couple of hundred yards from the homes of the tipton Taliban.
the area around victoria park has been troubled for years. anyone familiar with the area will know what i mean.
hopefully its a just a random nutter who gets caught quickly and theres no further incidents.
Who are the Tipton Taliban ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipton_Three

Victor McDade

4,395 posts

182 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Lucas CAV said:
Mr_B said:
dudleybloke said:
has Stephen Hawking been informed?

joking aside, this is just down the road from me.
its a couple of hundred yards from the homes of the tipton Taliban.
the area around victoria park has been troubled for years. anyone familiar with the area will know what i mean.
hopefully its a just a random nutter who gets caught quickly and theres no further incidents.
Who are the Tipton Taliban ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipton_Three
Ch 4 did an interesting docu-drama on these chaps a few years ago. Their excuse for travelling to Afghanistan just after 9/11 was priceless - they claimed they had heard great things about Afghan naan breads and wanted to check it out for themselves.

Hooli

32,278 posts

200 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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danjama said:
Sometimes it feels like this country is turning into the middle east.
yes
Not a good thing is it.