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Almost 1,500 people queued around the block today to try and secure one of 400 seasonal posts on offer at a jobs fair in Wolverhampton.

Staffordshire University chiefs will meet next month to decide whether to strip shamed BBC presenter Ashley Blake of his honorary degree.

Villa midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker is expected to return to the squad to face Cardiff after apologising to boss Martin O’Neill over last week’s training ground bust-up.

A card-cloning conman racked up a £3,000 petrol bill during an elaborate six-day fuelling spree at a Black Country forecourt.

A prominent bingo club which started life as one of the Midlands’ top theatres has closed its doors for the final time.

Petrol prices in the West Midlands are “ridiculously high” according to AA bosses, despite autumn traditionally leading to plummeting prices at the pumps.

More than 4,600 homes and businesses in a busy Black Country shopping area were left without power after a fire at an electricity substation.

An MP’s brother frittered away more than £600,000 he stole from clients through his work as a financial adviser on a gambling addiction, a court heard today.

A major fundraising campaign has been launched by the Severn Valley Railway to help pay for new machinery.

Warehouse workers who stole £37,000 of furniture from their bosses in a scam that saw £600 three-piece suites change hands for just £70 have been spared time behind bars.