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The Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold is expected to be valued at around £3 million this week – almost double the amount of the most expensive ancient treasure previously found in the UK.

A visitors’ centre at a memorial commemorating servicemen who died on operations since the Second World War is in danger of falling into disrepair unless £8 million is raised.

Last-ditch efforts to save one of the West Midlands’ oldest flower and produce shows from the axe have failed, organisers announced today.

A hit and run victim was still fighting for his life today, more than a month after he was mown down by a car in West Bromwich.

More than 300 mattresses at a Black Country hospital had to be replaced following a damning hygiene inspection, it has emerged.

A traditional tea room near Wolverhampton run by a Frank Spencer impersonator will remain closed until at least 2011 after its owners were involved in a horror car smash.

Cadbury chiefs today stressed they want the company to remain independent – unless the price is right, as another confectionery giant sized up a takeover bid.

Defiant campaigners desperate to save Coseley Baths from the bulldozer held a protest in the rain as they continued their fight to get the pool reopened.

One of Wolverhampton city centre’s busiest roundabouts could be widened and extra lanes created as part of congestion-busting plans unveiled today.

Mother-in-laws are normally the butt of hundreds of jokes so Frances Parsons could perhaps expect an gentle ribbing from her son-in-law – Black Country’s comic Aynuk.