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Receivers are hard at work trying to find a buyer for Cannock Shopping Centre.

Traders at a struggling Sandwell market are to see their pitch rents permanently slashed to £5 a day at weekends in a move which could be rolled out across the whole borough.

West Bromwich’s Pizza Hut looks set to close as the restaurant chain sells off 21 high street branches across the country.

Raiders tied up a housesitter for 18 hours during a raid on the country mansion of former Kidderminster MP Esmond Bulmer.

A pathologist today told an inquest he believed a Walsall pensioner found with a barbecue skewer in his neck had impaled himself in a tragic accident.

Gloucester aims to make a real splash in 2009 thanks to an action-packed year-round events programme stretching from synchronised swimming to cheese rolling and tall ships.

Albion correspondent Steve Madeley weighs up whether the Baggies survival bid is a bridge too far for the Hawthorns club.

Chief Sports Writer Martin Swain gives his views on Villa’s chances of fourth as title race continues.

Villa correspondent Brendan McLoughlin mulls over whether Martin O’Neill’s men will make it to the finish line in fourth.

There was a time when Freddie Bouma feared he would never play professional football again, explains Villa correspondent Brendan McLoughlin.