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      <title>Selective licensing scheme proves to be a life-saver</title>
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      <title>Council seizes seven empty properties</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council has seized seven residential houses from their owners, after they have each stood vacant for more than 10 years.</description>
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      <title>Rogue Birmingham landlord endangering lives successfully prosecuted</title>
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      <description>George Lindsay, 55, from Erdington, has been successfully prosecuted and ordered to pay close to £20,000 for breaching housing regulations.</description>
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      <title>Council seizes five empty properties</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council has had their applications for Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO) approved, so they can now exercise their enforcement powers to seize five empty properties.</description>
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