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Comedies, hard-hitting dramas, classic West End productions and a musical starring singer David Essex – Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre today announced its packed autumn programme.

Style expert Caryn Franklin will be styling the city when she heads to Birmingham to stage a fashion show.

A new shop will come to Cannock town centre next month, creating around 35 new jobs, it was revealed today.

A national consultation on the planned £32 billion high speed rail line ends today – as campaigners for it said the scheme will help create one million jobs.

It is the chosen tipple of thousands of beer drinkers in the Black Country – and Wolverhampton’s Banks’s Mild has now won international acclaim.

It once made some of the world’s finest coffin furniture and now the landmark Newman Brothers factory in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter is to open to the public following a £1 million lottery grant.

The historic former Royal Brierley Crystal factory is to be demolished within weeks as plans to build a £6million base for Dudley and Sandwell’s archives gather pace.

Organisers of a classic car show in Staffordshire are gearing up for a bumper event next week with more than 200 vehicles going on display.

Flower lovers get a big bonus to see the small, the large and the exotic gardens in the region with three fine colourful mid-summer creations open to visitors for nursing and cancer charities this weekend.

Wolves defender Richard Stearman today brushed off speculation about his future – as Carl Ikeme was primed for a move to Middlesbrough.