Students find out about careers in manufacturing

Students from Highfields Science Specialist School and Wednesfield High School have found out more about careers in manufacturing and engineering.


Wife tells of terrifying well plunge

Denise Brooks today described the terrifying moment she fell into a 400-year-old well at her Midland home.


Ford drops CDs as Focus turns to iPods

They were once the height of sophistication, but CD players in cars are going to become a thing of the past.


McDonald’s creates 65 jobs in revamps

Dozens of jobs will be created as three fast food branches in Sandwell are given revamps worth more than £700,000, including a 50-foot-high phone mast, after planning chiefs gave their approval.


Talks underway for £370m hospital

Top level talks are under way in an effort to find £370million funding for a major new hospital serving patients in the Black Country.


Wolves offered Michael Johnson loan

Wolves have been offered Manchester City’s Michael Johnson as well as Liverpool’s Jay Spearing as boss Mick McCarthy intensifies his search for a midfielder.


Lorry driver dead in horror M5 crash

A lorry driver has died after his truck crashed into a bridge and burst into flames on the M5 in the Midlands.


Wolverhampton school rebuilding project is revised

The final phases of a £270 million scheme to refurbish or rebuild Wolverhampton’s secondary schools could be merged amid concerns that the project would otherwise run six months behind schedule.


Victim brands HIV lover ‘scum’

The victim infected with HIV by Nkosinathi Mabanda today branded him ‘scum’ and said he should have been locked up for life.


Wyn Davies’s perfect weekend

Wyn Davies is a member of the all-male stage choir Only Men Aloud! The 18-piece group won the BBC’s Last Choir Standing contest in 2007 and later signed a multi-million pound record deal. They have just announced a pre-Christmas tour.

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