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Repairing vandalised speed cameras and making dummy sites look like they are in use will cost West Midlands taxpayers up to £136,800 a year, it was revealed today.

Thousands of people searching for fame queued for hours outside Birmingham’s LG Arena as the X Factor auditions came to town.

Dozens of students at Wolverhampton University have been kicked off courses in the last four years for misconduct and bad discipline, figures revealed today.

With a special paint scheme, lighting and colour co-ordinated tables and chairs to encourage patients to eat, this unique multi-million pound hospital ward is helping to transform the lives of dementia patients in the Black Country.

A mother with three children who all have the same rare heart condition is raising money for a charity appeal in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Lorries carrying valuable loads are increasingly being stolen from the region’s motorways by gangs who sometimes resort to violence, it was revealed today.

A record number of athletes took part in one of the region’s longest-running sporting success stories.

A £100million project to launch a tram-train line taking commuters across the Black Country will be in place by 2014 if plans unveiled in detail today are approved.

Wolves winger Matt Jarvis today insisted his England call-up would only improve him further as a player.

Bloodied Albion midfielder James Morrison has hailed Saturday’s battling draw with Arsenal as a template for Premier League survival.