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A doughnut a day is helping to keep the doctor away for a orangutan at Dudley Zoo.

Youssouf Mulumbu is on course to return from injury for Albion’s Premier League trip to Stoke on Monday.

Birmingham-based transport group National Express accelerated to a £160.5 million profit thanks to growth in its UK bus and rail businesses.

Take a handful of Disney characters, a host of favourite tunes and a pinch of the Disney magic — then perform the whole colourful concoction on ice.

The annual Women Chainmakers’ Festival at the Black Country Living Museum is being revamped amid fears it has become too political, it has emerged.

A ten-week blitz will be carried out on Staffordshire’s potholed roads after £4million was found to repair the damage caused by the coldest December on record.

Multi-million pound regeneration and business projects for the West Midlands will be handed over to the Government as a £300 million-a-year quango winds down.

Plans for 314 houses on the landmark Goodyear site are due to be approved next week.

Plans for a major new retirement village in Staffordshire will go on display for the first time in March.

Claire Howell is that much of a rock fan she has seen The Rolling Stones 19 times and has so much music memorabilia it resulted in her opening a market stall.