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The best of this week’s Peter Rhodes column from the Express & Star.

The Government is to unveil “radical” proposals to reform benefits after ministers described the system as “broken”.

Birmingham’s new £188 million central library is starting to take shape after months of ground work, as this latest picture shows.

The owner of Walsall’s Highgate brewery have vowed to revive it, revealing it had turned down requests to demolish it from a dismantling company.

Work is under way to transform what was once one of Stafford’s best-known pubs into business offices.

The question is rumbling around the dwindling number of Albion shareholders in the wake of the club chairman’s latest attempt to expand his holding at The Hawthorns.

The couple who murdered three-year-old Ryan Lovell-Hancox by systematically beating him in a Black Country bedsit were today jailed for life.

This is the moment a stubborn motorist claimed victory over the car clampers.

A brother and sister appeared in court today in connection with the murder of a father-of-six on his doorstep in Oldbury.

A businessman who dodged £270,000 of VAT and income tax while running a successful Wolverhampton car parts shop was today beginning a 15-month jail sentence.