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Weekly West Midlands quiz: Which word helped win a national Scrabble title?

9 hours ago

David Schafferand

Allen Cook

From Scrabble-winning teachers to firefighter toys for lemurs, how much West Midlands news have you seen this week?

About 32% of quizzers got full marks in last week's edition - will you make the grade in this one?

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