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Brum is capital
of fake fashion
FAKE goods are swamping the UK, with one in three
Brits owning knock-off designer gear, a poll has found.
From sunglasses to cosmetics, dodgy watches and
designer clothes, 32% admit owning counterfeit items.
Researchers found Birmingham is the UK’s fake gear
capital, where 40% of its residents said they have bought
items “out of the back of a van”.
London was second followed by Newcastle, Cardiff,
Southampton and Oxford.
About £100million is spent on fake gear every year.
Men are more likely to own fake goods than women,
with 35% owning up, compared to 30% of women.
Tic Watches, which carried out the study, said: “The
scale of the counterfeit industry is shocking.”
Stab grandad’s
plea to see wife
A GRANDAD stabbed walking home from the pub
begged to see his wife as he bled to death.
Allan Isichei, 69, was enjoying a pint and reading a
paper at The Plough, near his Southall home in West
London, moments before Saturday’s attack.
He stumbled to neighbour Raj Grover’s front door and
asked him to call an ambulance but died an hour later.
Mr Grover said: “I asked him a few times, ‘who did
that, Allan? What happened?’ But he said, ‘don’t ask me
these questions, call my wife because I’m losing it’.
“I quickly ran to his house and called his wife.”
Police have arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of
murder company director Mr Isichei. The suspect was
held in hospital with minor injuries.
SHOCK Elise, Paul & triplets
Three cheers
for mum told
she’s infertile
A MUM told she would not
be able to have more chil-
dren has had triplets.
Doctors told Elise
Mitchell, 33, she couldn’t
conceive after surgery on
her ovaries four years ago.
Partner Paul Taylor, 41,
said they were “thrilled”.
He added: “To go from
being told you
can’t have chil-
dren to being told
you’re having
three is shocking.”
The couple
from Rochdale
have three chil-
dren, aged 9 and 10, from
previous relationships.
Babies Lily, Lucy and
Arthur were born prema-
turely at 33 weeks and
remain in an incubator.
Elise said: “It’s over-
whelming but lovely. ”
Only 190 sets of triplets
were born in the UK in
2016, NHS figures show.
BY HELEN JOHNSON
GLORY World Cup victory
1966 win top
dream link on
family trees
THE historic event most
people researching their
family tree hope to find is
a link to is England’s 1966
World Cup victory.
Live Aid in 1985 came in
second with the Christmas
Day 1914 football match in
no-man’s land third.
The poll by website
Ancestry, on the
past 250 years,
had The Beatles’
Cavern Club
debut fifth.
We m o st w a n t
to meet Princess
Diana and Freddie
Mercury – but 62% want to
meet a past relative too.
Ancestry’s Russell James
said: “Curiosity is at the
heart of people’s interest.”
TOP 10: 1, 1966 World Cup. 2, Live
Aid. 3, Xmas footie in no-man’s
land. 4, Suffragette movement. 5,
Beatles’ debut. 6, Coronation of
Elizabeth II. 7, VE Day. 8, The Blitz.
9, Coronation of Queen Victoria.
10, Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace.
BY MARK SOLOMONS
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