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Christian Bale breaks down, Tom Hooper is shocked and The King’s Speech cleans up at the Academy Awards.

Staff were moving into a new £30 million school in Rowley Regis today.

Defender Gabriel Tamas has urged Albion to target points over panache as they head for a true clash of styles at Stoke tonight.

Roy Hodgson takes his turn at cracking the Stoke hoodoo tonight admitting: ‘Sooner or later, a lucky jacket lets you down’.

Pubs across the Black Country are challenging Sky TV’s grip on football by showing live Premier League matches beamed from abroad – and even advertising the screenings on hoardings.

Bridgnorth’s Cliff Railway has been put up for sale.

The number of traffic lights on Britain’s roads has increased by nearly a third in eight years, a report revealed today, prompting calls for an overhaul of jam-causing junctions.

Britain’s oldest father of twins has become a dad for the 13th time – at 72.

Plans have been unveiled for an adventure park in West Bromwich’s Sandwell Valley at a cost of £250,000, the Express & Star can reveal.

Taxpayers in three Black Country boroughs are still forking out £5.3 million a year for “enhanced” pensions for council staff, it has emerged.