{"id":124171,"date":"2025-05-23T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124171\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:08:15","slug":"arson-attack-on-cars-in-birmingham-prompts-appeal-for-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124171\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson attack on cars in Birmingham prompts appeal for information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 1.15am this morning (Thursday) two vehicles were set on fire outside an address in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clements Road, Yardley<\/a> &#8211; Nobody was injured.<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesman said: &#8220;We understand this will be concerning for the community, and we will have extra officers in the area to provide reassurance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bbc63d23-fc71-47ac-931f-d2abcd45347f.avif\"   alt=\"Supporting image.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our investigators are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed this incident, or may have information to help our investigation, to contact us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They can be contacted via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/contact\/af\/contact-us-beta\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Chat\u00a0<\/a>on their website, or by calling 101 quoting log 184 of 22 May.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you can report anonymously to<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/?page=3&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22502972587&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADRO_d5wwJjUNQsVnc2bDYLOhgaqH&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwlrvBBhDnARIsAHEQgOQ2OeDtEl2FmIJuNp5o-hjHJu8L7B1N9QYMt6NTSiyG6KBC_G2q4tYaAkQdEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Crimestoppers\u00a0<\/a>on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At around 1.15am this morning (Thursday) two vehicles were set on fire outside an address in Clements Road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114554949771647152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}