Both Peugeot and Citroen are to launch large SUVs next year - and very similar products they look too. Only the front ends of the Peugeot 4007 and Citroen C-Crosser are different. The C-Crosser features a corporate Citroen chevron grille, while the 4007 sports a whale-like gaping mouth beneath its bonnet.
Bridgnorth’s Malcolm Livingston excelled in wet conditions at an international Autotest event commemorating one of the finest drivers the West Midlands has produced.
Thousands of bike fans attended the International Motorcycle and Scooter Show for a chance to view the latest models and meet stars like Carl Fogarty and Charley Boorman.
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A family doctor at Stourport-on-Severn who gave antibiotics to a lorry driver with throat cancer has lost his battle to return to practise medicine.Dr Mahmoud Al-Khayat, who was working at Areley Kings Medical Centre, failed to properly examine Roger Lewis for two years.
The darts championships are on the telly again. Any time now some enterprising politician will suggest it would be a good idea to incorporate darts in the National Curriculum. It works. Some years ago I encountered a smallish group of likely lads whose enthusiasm for number crunching had long since passed.
I was greatly disappointed to read your article “Action to stop pool wreckers”. At a time when youth obesity levels are at an all time high, and stories fill the national Press about teenage drug abuse and violence, teenagers and young adults who discover and partake in sports such as skateboarding should surely be encouraged, […]
Members of the public reading the “poor NHS performance” figures released recently could be forgiven for worrying. However I can say, as a recently retired NHS worker of 40 years, that these figures only relate to the artificial performance standards initiated and required by the government.
Re the choice of some Muslim women to wear the veil. Following the recently expressed views of Jack Straw, who wishes any Muslim woman to remove her veil while speaking to him in his surgery, people seem to be coming out of the woodwork to express their views.
For clarification purposes, it is fine for a practising Sikh who may have just arrived in this country to take a ceremonial knife into Molineux. However, a 40-year-old white Englishman, born in this country, having had a season ticket for 30 years has to take the top off his pop bottle before entering the stadium […]
You couldn’t turn on a TV or radio yesterday without being bombarded with dire warnings of the eco-disaster awaiting our planet, writes our video blogger Andy Toft.
Urgent checks are needed at thousands of homes for dangers from poisonous carbon monoxide gas in the uncharted net-work of mines beneath the region, it has been revealed.
The dangers came to light after Black Country couple James and Molly Mcdonald were killed by carbon monoxide fumes.
The driver of a coach which crashed in France killing four Wolverhampton holidaymakers 16 years ago was urged to speed up to catch a ferry, it emerged this afternoon.
An accidental death verdict has been recorded on a Netherton couple poisoned by carbon monoxide at their Black Country home. A jury at Dudley Coroners Court yesterday took just 30 minutes to record its verdict on pensioners James and Molly Mcdonald.
It began as just a normal holiday party returning home relaxed and happy after a Spanish holiday - until fate struck a terrible blow and 11 people never made it back.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy is closing in on a loan deal for Sunderland defender Neill Collins - and has buried the hatchet with Black Cats boss Roy Keane.
McCarthy wants to raid his former club to bring the versatile former Scotland under-21 international to Molineux.
Albion boss Tony Mowbray today pledged to welcome Premiership scouts to The Hawthorns with open arms, but warned: “It doesn’t mean you’ll get my players.”
Mowbray expects to have to ward off a new wave of top-flight interest in his stars, with Zoltan Gera already being linked with Newcastle.
Milan Baros was today playing a friendly against Birmingham in a bid to build up his sharpness and fire his Villa goals bid.
The £6.5m striker has failed to hit the net in eight games so far this season and was taken off at half-time in Saturday’s trip to Liverpool.
Walsall’s Kris Taylor today thanked manager Richard Money for finally convincing him he is a defender.
The Saddlers left-back paid tribute to the impact of Money since his arrival at Bescot in the summer.
Wolves defender Jamie Clapham will lock horns with old boss George Burley’s Southampton tomorrow - and has warned his side they are in for a tough test on the south coast.
A traffic light engineer is picking up more than £91,000 a year in pay from his employer, Birmingham City Council - despite being off sick for around a year, it was claimed today.
A girl at a Cannock school has contracted meningitis - the second pupil in as many years to fall ill with the disease.
A van driver was ambushed by masked attackers as he delivered cash to a Stafford building society today.
An RAF pilot from Burntwood was killed in a “friendly fire” incident when a US unit defending a Kuwaiti air base mistook his plane for a missile.
A total of 360 women cleaners who claim they were paid less than male colleagues are to receive around £1million in back pay after union bosses struck a deal with Walsall Council.
How does a Labour government react to the threat of global warming, as revealed today in Sir Nicholas Stern’s alarming report? Do we really need to ask? The answer, as far as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are concerned, is to tax, tax and tax again.
A Telford company has scooped one of the most prestigious awards in the UK print industry. Precision Colour Printing, of Halesfield (PCP Limited) has been named as Consumer Magazine Printer of the Year in the national awards run by PrintWeek magazine.
The Birmingham Foundation has appointed Yvonne Palmer as operations director to the Birmingham and Black Country-focused charity which helps more than 1,000 inner city community projects get off the ground each year.
A Wolverhampton engineering firm is moving into the hi-tech world of Formula One racing as it transforms from a traditional metal-basher to making specialist crankshafts.
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Tragedy raises serious issues
The nightmarish death of a Black Country couple, killed by carbon monoxide seeping from the ground beneath their home, should set alarm bells ringing everywhere. Our region, like so many old industrial areas, is riddled with shafts for coal and stone, some of which date back 200 years and many of which were neither properly […]