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A Tory candidate in the Black Country – at the centre of a row over prospective MPs who work as lobbyists – today defended her decision to accept a fee for using her political connections.

Waitrose set it sights on a bigger slice of the convenience market today as it unveiled plans for new stores and stronger ties with Boots and Welcome Break.

The boss of a Black Country brewery that has been taken over after going into administration today said expansion plans could still become a reality.

Binmen refused to take a white recycling bag from a Wolverhampton home – because the owner had “contaminated” it with the wrong type of plastic.

A swimming school at a Black Country school could be revamped and opened to the public under a plan to bag Government cash.

More than £22 million could be invested in revamping key Black Country roads to unlock land around the M6 for development and create thousands of jobs.

A clot busting new drug will revolutionise the way hundreds of stroke patients are treated, it was claimed today.

It was the “E-Type Jaguar” of the boating world in the 1960s designed to cut through the waters at speed.

They were meant to brighten up the workaday rail route between Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

A multi-million pound scheme for a visitor centre in Barr Beacon may not materialise for some time, said council chiefs today, as they admitted other projects were a priority.