Olsson backs keeper Foster

Albion defender Jonas Olsson today backed goalkeeper Ben Foster to bounce back from the last-minute error that handed Stoke victory.


No LOL for all this lazy text speak

You know the world has turned on its head when older people think they are down on the street with the kids, writes our Grumpy Old Man Bill McCarthy.


Furniture store is destroyed by blaze

A furniture clearance store on a main road into Wolverhampton city centre was completely destroyed in a huge fire which was started by arsonists and threatened to take hold of two neighbouring shops.


Families spared cost of headstone repairs

Midland councils are spending tens of thousands of pounds repairing headstones, sparing relatives the anguish of paying for the work.


Delight as eyesore is finally demolished

The blot on Walsall’s landscape that was the Overstrand bridge building has been banished to oblivion.


Family heartbroken as puppy is snatched

Two opportunist thieves stole a 16-week-old pedigree spaniel puppy and escaped on a motorbike, leaving the dog’s owners distraught.


Hundreds of police restricted by illness

Hundreds of police officers in the West Midlands are unable to carry out their full range of duties because of illness or injury, new figures revealed today.


Delight for sisters who shared wedding dress

Sisters who shared their wedding dress and were married exactly one month apart in the same church are celebrating their diamond anniversaries.


Everyone wins this match of the day

Usually there is no love lost between supporters of Wolves and West Brom.


Historic leatherworks stands frozen in time

Leather strewn over the workstations and boxes of heavy-duty sewing machine needles dotted about – this photograph show how Walsall’s Jabez Cliff & Co was left frozen in time before it burned down.

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