More jobs go as work on houses winds down

Jobs are being axed by the company behind a £425 million revamp of council homes in the Black Country – with 30 already having left their posts.


Sex attack in Walsall park

Forensic officers were today scouring a Walsall park after a woman was sexually assaulted.


Woman’s electric blanket tragedy

A Birmingham pensioner has died after her electric blanket caught fire.


Doughnuts and panto tickets among gifts to police

A plastic rose, a box of Krispy Creme doughnuts and a baby bathrobe were among ‘thank you’ presents given to West Midlands Police.


Trees stolen in attack on Walsall Arboretum

Thousands of pounds worth of damage has been caused after a vandal attack at a Black Country beauty spot.


Grieving Stafford Hospital family were sent soiled belongings

A grieving Staffordshire family were horrified when the personal belongings of a recently-deceased relative were found soiled when sent to them by Stafford Hospital.


Suspended sentence for death crash driver

A driver who caused the death of a Black Country cyclist in a crash which had no obvious cause has been given a suspended jail sentence and a two-year ban.


£53,000 worth of council’s items lost

Laptops, plasma screens and industrial equipment belonging to Wolverhampton City Council have all been lost, stolen or misplaced, new figures reveal today.


Cost of coping with alcohol-related problems hits £35m

The bill for treating patients with alcohol-related illness reached £35 million in just one year for health services across the Black Country and Worcestershire, new figures have revealed.


Happy anglers back at their beauty spot

Fishermen are once again lining the banks of a Black Country pool which has been transformed from a fly-tipping dump back to a beauty spot.

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