expressandstar.com

Work to update traffic lights is planned to solve a daily stop-start commuter nightmare for motorists at a junction on the Birmingham New Road in Dudley.

The pressures which led to patients dying needlessly at Stafford Hospital could be happening elsewhere in the NHS, doctors have warned.

Renault’s Megane Sport Tourer has enough space to match its radical looks. The French firm launched the Megane range including the Sport Tourer estate model in 2002. Iain Dooley checks out this occasionally overlooked estate.

A conwoman who racked up an £8,000 bill when she used a doctor’s stolen credit card details to check in to a luxury hotel and then have computer equipment sent to her has been jailed for 13 months.

Gala bingo hall in Aldridge could be shut in a wave of national closures, it was announced this afternoon.

A teenager drowned while swimming with three friends in the River Severn. The 17-year-old was today named as student Tony James Ballard.

Ford uses the ‘ECOnetic’ badge to denote its most economical cars – and they have been proving popular with customers. You can also get ECOnetic versions of the Fiesta and Focus and each offers economy and tax benefits, but are the savings really that great compared with regular diesels?

Chief Sports Writer Martin Swain gives his take on a day that made history at Molineux with the club-record signing of Kevin Doyle.

A Black Country businessman has picked up the region’s first ever Peoples Choice award for his online campaign work on the social networking site Facebook at this year’s Midlands Media Awards.

Chief Sports Writer Martin Swain leads the reaction as Albion spring a shock by choosing Milton Keynes Dons manager Roberto Di Matteo.