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Horror smash taxi driver is sentenced

A taxi driver who left a Black Country teenager with a fractured spine, broken ribs and a punctured lung and stomach in a horror head-on crash has been spared an immediate prison sentence.


Surgeon ‘assaulted’ patient during New Cross Hospital op

The “sleeping” patient allegedly assaulted by a surgeon at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital was undergoing surgery at the time, it can be revealed today.


Top 10 – Cars of the 80s

See pictures of the top ten cars of the 1980s – including several that we’d still love to own today.


Hammer Hill House up for sale at £5.5m

It boasts an indoor swimming pool, its own dancefloor and lift and was designed by a legendary architect. And this stunning Midland mansion in could now be yours for more than £5.5 million.


Reader makes capital case over Wolverhampton sign

A missing capital letter on Wolverhampton’s new £22.5 million bus station was today branded as evidence of the decline of the English language.


Fifty jobs at Dudley Council to be axed in new blow

More than 50 workers at a Black Country council face compulsory redundancy as part of job cuts announced to save cash, it was announced today.


Mandy Finn stab accused ‘sent love texts to other women’

A college manager accused of stabbing his lecturer lover to death sent text messages to other women declaring that he loved them, a court heard.


Dudley bedsits emptied in alert on arson

Five people had to be evacuated from their homes after arsonists targeted an outhouse at a Black Country property.


Lid lifted on police £4.5m eye in the sky

The team behind West Midlands Police’s £4.5 million helicopter have been lifting the lid on its operations.

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