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Councils who employed foreign workers illegally will not face prosecution – despite private businesses being fined up to £10,000 for the same thing.

A father from the Black Country died after nursing home staff failed to follow recommended procedures, an inquest jury ruled.

A delayed spring combined with sunshine has meant fields across the country are bursting into colourful displays of one of Britain’s best-loved wild flowers – the poppy.

A mugger who struck twice in the space of a fortnight at cashpoints in a Staffordshire town has been handed a 15 month jail term.

The Black Country Museum will be used as a set for a film starring Helena Bonham Carter, which brings to life the Wolverhampton upbringing of food writer Nigel Slater.

An £800,000 revamp of a Walsall school, first started nearly 20 years ago, was unveiled by a former pupil – now a Walsall FC star.

A Dudley MP will meet Education Secretary Michael Gove for crunch talks over the borough’s stalled £300million schools’ refurbishment programme.

An “inspirational”  former commander of a Black Country Territorial Army unit has died after a long illness.

Almost nine-in-10 pupils now have a mobile compared with fewer than three-quarters who have their own books in the home, it was recently revealed.

Opera singer Jonathan Ansell has shed his clean-cut image for a rough-and-ready role in a popular musical that has arrived in Wolverhampton.