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Thousands of noise complaints are being lodged with councils in the Black Country and Staffordshire each year – with neighbours the chief culprits. In the last three years there were 11,990 reports in Wolverhampton alone.

Truancy in a Black Country borough remains the worst in the West Midlands – with pupils skipping classes more than three times as often as those in other areas.

Protesters who forced their way into a Sikh community centre as a rally against meat and alcohol being served there spiralled into chaos will be tracked down by police, officers warned today.

Eastern European criminal gangs are bumping into elderly Black Country shoppers on pension day and secretly plucking their purses from handbags.

The war against fly-tippers is being won with the latest figures showing a sharp drop in the number of cases across the region.

Albion today revealed they are confident of striking a deal to tie star goalscorer Peter Odemwingie to the club.

MANCHESTER UNITED look to have jumped to the front of the queue for Ashley Young’s signature with the Villa star now seemingly set for an Old Trafford move.

MICHAEL MANCIENNE is due in Germany tomorrow to finalise a £3m deal engineered by Hamburg’s ex-Chelsea sporting director Frank Arnesen.

A car rolled down a steep drive before colliding with the wall of a house opposite.

Angry Saddlers fans today urged Walsall Council to put the Banks’s Stadium sale on their agenda as the race for the ground hots up.