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Staffordshire County Council is aiming to deliver a four per cent council tax rise for 2008-2009.

The Mayoress of Kidderminster has died, aged 56, after an 18-month battle with lung cancer. Emotional tributes were pouring in today for the “courageous” mayoress.

Twenty workers have been made redundant from an Aldridge engineering firm, leaving fitters, welders, drivers and storekeepers out of work.

A father who disappeared during a family meal sparking a police hunt has been discovered dead in a reservoir in Netherton, it was revealed today.

Martin Laursen has been urged to stay at Villa – by wantaway keeper Thomas Sorensen.

Wolves defender Jody Craddock is set to miss his reunion with Cambridge in the FA Cup on Saturday after picking up a fresh training ground injury.

Walsall skipper Tommy Mooney will not be fit to face Millwall in the FA Cup clash on Saturday.

Birmingham are hoping to extend Honduran midfielder Wilson Palacios’ stay at St Andrew’s.

All the gossip on who could be in and out at Wolves, Albion, Villa, Walsall and Blues.

Petrol prices are soaring to a new high, approaching £5 a gallon for the first time. The cost of oil surged through the 100 dollars-a-barrel mark for the first time last night, meaning that more misery is on the way for motorists.