Spanish salsa dancing sensation Paddy Jones was today flying back to Birmingham to spend New Year with her grandchildren – after missing out on a 100,000 euro top talent show prize.
Organisers of a popular computer fair in the Black Country have been warned it could be ordered to shut down if they do not stop traders selling counterfeit goods.
Soldiers marched miles to raise money for their injured comrades who are being treated at a Birmingham military hospital.
Frances Parsons, the mother-in-law of Black Country comic Alan “Aynuk” Smith has died just a month after celebrating her 100th birthday.
The long-awaited £5 million transformation of a rundown Wolverhampton estate will start in days, after bulldozers finished demolishing the final derelict homes.
A Black Country father stranded in heavy snow could have died of hypothermia had it not been for the prompt actions of a railway temporary worker, it emerged today.
The number of people killed at work in the West Midlands over the last year has nearly halved, but employers were today urged to do more after accidents claimed more than 13,000 casualties.
Captain Karl Henry today signed off 2009, insisting Wolves have nothing to fear in their Premier League survival quest.
AC Milan’s David Beckham says he needs to work hard to make England’s World Cup squad, despite Fabio Capello guaranteeing him a place.
Villa manager Martin O’Neill today admitted he plans to rest players against Blackburn on Saturday as he puts the League Cup before the FA Cup.
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