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A vigilant pensioner cornered a distraction burglar by getting him to return to her house later that day when police were waiting for him.

A lorry hauling a 17-ton container toppled on to its side as it was going round a busy traffic island, causing chaos in Staffordshire today.

A man suffered a fractured skull after a fight broke out in a Dudley pub before spilling out into the car park.

Businesses in Wolverhampton were today counting the cost of a crash between a car and cyclist which closed the city’s ring road for more than three hours.

Postal strikes were under way in the Midlands today as the threat of national action looms ever closer. It is in response to changes to working pratice.

A school music room in Wolverhampton was badly damaged in a suspected arson attack.

Thousands of opera fans were left disappointed when Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli cancelled his sell-out Birmingham concert at the last minute.

More than 10,000 people are thought to have turned up to see the Staffordshire Hoard at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery over the weekend.

Hundreds of new jobs will be created in a tie-up between Wolverhampton-based Banks’s brewery Marston’s and budget hotel chain Travelodge, it was revealed today.

Plans for a camera car to spy on parents parking illegally in the Black Country have been put on ice. Sandwell Council had drawn up plans to buy or lease a £15,000 vehicle.