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Metal bashing firm Castings has axed 350 staff – around a third of its workforce, it was revealed today.

A £268 million shortfall has been uncovered in Walsall Council’s workers’ pension fund, it has been revealed.

A man who handled stolen copper that was stripped from a railway line in Walsall was starting a 12-month prison sentence today.

A car body repair unit narrowly escaped a second blaze in the Black Country.

A syringe-wielding armed robber from Wolverhampton who was jailed for 12 years for a raid on a sub-post office has had his sentence reduced by Appeal Court judges.

A nurse stripped an elderly woman naked in full view of other patients, a misconduct hearing was told. Memory Musekiwa, 35, from Walsall, allegedly shouted at the pensioner after she wet herself at Worcester Royal Hospital.

Vulnerable to the elements, with their feathers not yet fully formed on their backs, these baby birds were left dumped in a box in the middle of West Bromwich.

Health bosses have failed to find a new chief executive for the beleaguered trust in charge of scandal-hit Stafford Hospital.

It has been months in the making, but a special Victorian display at Wolverhampton Art Gallery is now just days away from its grand unveiling.

A world-famous pioneering West Midland surgeon who transformed the lives of thousands of children born with facial deformities has died aged 65.