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Volvo has always been known for its safe, comfortable cars – but now its investment in green technologies is starting to pay dividends – the Swedish firm is already producing highly fuel-efficient cars under its DRIVe banner. Peter Carroll puts the new C30 through its paces.

A pilot from a village near Wolverhampton and three passengers cheated death when their light aircraft crashed and burst into flames on the Channel Islands.

An ice cream van toppled over on the M5 in one of a number of accidents in the West Midlands.

A stolen sports car demolished a garden wall and flattened part of a 7ft high brick outhouse during a high speed smash in Wolverhampton.

Bank holiday rail travellers face delays and replacement bus services as more than 1,000 miles of routes are disrupted by engineering work.

A former Black Country kickboxing champion has been spared jail after helping a lovesick 47-year-old woman take revenge on the younger man who jilted her.

An adventure sports firm must pay compensation to the family of a Midland tourist who drowned while riverboarding in New Zealand.

Exotic imported fish making their way on to dinner tables in the Black Country could pose a danger to health, it has been revealed.

The number of taxis on Wolverhampton’s roads will soar under plans to scrap “unfair” licence conditions in a move to have enough cars on the streets to cope with late-night revellers, it was revealed today.

Wolverhampton-based Marston’s saw an extra million pints of Pedigree beer sunk during the Ashes thanks to its sponsorship deal with the England cricket team, it was revealed today.