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Council tax in Stafford would need to rise by almost 10 per cent in order to plug a financial blackhole in the borough council’s budget.

A thief who stole a purse from a mother’s handbag as she shopped at a Black Country market has avoided jail.

A man who took an axe into a Walsall bar has been handed a suspended prison sentence.

The bravery of three men who received the country’s highest award for gallantry was remembered when a plaque was unveiled in their honour.

Brave Walsall schoolboy Ben Sambrook, who battled back from a brain tumour and has now inspired fundraising to help others, was today named the latest Express & Star Local Hero.

Motorists living along a stretch of road which passes through Great Wyrley say they are at their wits’ end after counting the cost of yet another spate of vandal attacks on their vehicles.

A gipsy family of 11 who won a High Court campaign to keep their caravans on green belt land in South Staffordshire have won a further battle to have a permanent kitchen, bathroom and day room built on the site.

The final member of a West Midlands money laundering gang embroiled in the people trafficking operation which caused the deaths of 21 illegal immigrants in Morecambe Bay, has been jailed.

A Midlands safari park has unveiled its latest arrivals in time for Christmas – five white lion cubs to boost its already world-famous pride.

Rotten, damp and crumbling stonework at a Midland stately home will be restored to its former glory in a £420,000 repairs programme, it has been revealed.