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The Summer Play season has kicked off at Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre with Busybody, a light-hearted comedy with a sinister touch.

It will be real family entertainment when a Black Country theatre group’s show opens tonight – with eight sets of close relatives taking to the stage together.

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend – and judging by the reaction of the audience Neil Diamond is still a hit with his female fans.

Birmingham Stage Company took on no mean feat – transferring the hit books and TV series Horrible Histories from the page and small screen to the stage.

Boss Roy Hodgson returns to the Hawthorns next week increasingly confident Youssouf  Mulumbu will still be an Albion player next season.

Thousands of workers in the Midlands were today preparing to strike – as industry leaders warned their action will have a “significant impact” on business confidence and inward investment.

A businessman whose annual Christmas lights display at his Staffordshire home raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity threw himself under a train following the break-up of his marriage, an inquest heard.

A mother-of-three cashed four cheques totalling £10,000 from the account of a local firm of solicitors after being recruited by a “silver-tongued” man known as “M”, who was thought to work at the company, a court heard.

A trainee doctor at Stafford Hospital A&E described the department as unsafe and putting patients at risk but his fears were not passed to training chiefs, it has emerged.

Catholics across the country will be descending on a Staffordshire church this weekend to marvel at a revamped replica of the Lourdes shrine.