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Grandfather accused of toddler’s murder says boy’s mother was ‘quick-tempered’

Michael Ives, 47, and his wife Kerry, 46, deny the murder of two-year-old Ethan Ives-Griffiths.

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Sixty firefighters tackle blaze near the M6 in Birmingham as police close roads and locals told to shut windows

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