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UK soul queen Beverley Knight will be undertaking her first UK tour in 2 years this November, which includes a stop in her home city of Wolverhampton followed by a headline show in 2010 in London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall.

A school in Wolverhampton was today closed down for a week as it emerged four of its pupils had contracted swine flu.

A man suffered a head injury after falling 10ft from a bridge into a canal.

A Black Country council plans to spend £1,500 for an hour’s worth of advertising on a plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square publicising its new campaign about art and culture.

A man who died after falling through the roof of a West Midland factory building has been named as 62-year-old Terrance Bull.

A teenage motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital after being injured in an accident near Kidderminster.

As much as £50,000 has been ploughed into securing Wolverhampton’s historic Low Level station since its future was thrown into doubt, it emerged today.

An urgent safety review was being demanded today after a chunk of masonry broke away from a Wolverhampton city centre building and crashed to the pavement, narrowly missing pedestrians.

The uncle of one of the five British hostages in Iraq today told the Express & Star how he feared the worst when police informed his family that two bodies had been found.

Wolverhampton MP Rob Marris today insisted he was in favour of openness on expenses – as he again refused to reveal details of the £4,600 he had paid back.