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Millions of pounds of spending cuts that will see almost 400 posts go at West Midlands Police will not stop it providing a top-level service to the public, the force’s most senior officer has vowed.

Forty three people have been charged with being involved in riots in the West Midlands after being brought in by police, it emerged today.

Up to 30 firefighters tackled a blaze which broke out in 50 tons of rubbish in the courtyard of an industrial estate in Walsall.

A huge Staffordshire estate has gone up for sale with a guide price of £2.3 million.

A Midland council will axe a day’s paid holiday given as a reward if staff do not call in sick, it was revealed today.

The cost of riots in Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and Birmingham to West Midlands Police has increased to £17 million, it has emerged.

The mini heatwave across the Midlands is tricking fruit, plants and shrubs into thinking a second spring has arrived and causing them to bloom for a second time.

The head of a chain of sex shops says his latest venture in Staffordshire will be open by Christmas, with work starting on the store in the next few weeks.

More than 500 jobs are to be scrapped at hospitals in Staffordshire as the number of beds is slashed by almost 40 per cent under new plans.

A collection of memorabilia of a legendary Black Country boxer has been preserved after it was sold at auction in Staffordshire.