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A care home company has been ordered to pay £150,000 after a great-grandmother from the Black Country died after she fell from a sling.

Public faith in the safeguarding of vulnerable children is damaged and will not be repaired until tragedies such as the murder of Ryan Lovell-Hancox are eradicated, an MP said today.

Former Stafford Hospital boss Martin Yeates could avoid appearing at the public inquiry after its chairman announced new rules on written evidence.

Thieves stole scaffolding from a Black Country building site before leading police on a chase, throwing the metal from their car as they fled.

Paul Cope, the Stafford fraudster who netted more than £28 million in leasing and mortgage scams, has told a judge he has no money salted away.

A detective constable with West Midlands Police illegally pocketed more than £3,600 by wrongly cashing housing benefit cheques.

Investment in Wolverhampton has dried up since the city has been “left to its own devices” and cut adrift by the abolition of regional development agency Advantage West Midlands, the shadow chancellor has claimed.

The playing fields of a primary school were awash with hundreds of colourful umbrellas, without a drop of rain in sight.

A former Wolverhampton teacher and charity fundraiser has died, aged 86.

A £32bn high speed rail line from Birmingham to London will boost jobs, investment and train services in the West Midlands, it was claimed today.