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Teams of volunteers are helping to bring an abandoned Staffordshire canal back to life.

Workers in the West Midlands who clean Virgin Trains on the West Coast Mainline will stage a 24-hour strike this week in a row over pay.

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Relatives of elderly residents battling to save their closure-threatened care home in Kingswinford will hold talks with a crusading lawyer.

Stafford Hospital has been ordered to find deeper cuts to try to plug a huge £80million financial black hole – despite the hospital already planning to scrap hundreds of jobs and axe 40 per cent of its beds.

With a three hour show, five costume changes and a host of famous faces, Sir Cliff Richard showed he still knows how to move it and groove it – at the grand age of 71.

Home furnishing giant Dunelm will open a new store in Kidderminster on Thursday creating 45 jobs. It has revamped and extended the former Morrisons store to become one of the town’s largest retailers.

Motorists trying to get away for the half-term holiday faced long delays on the M6 after a series of problems on the mid-Staffordshire section.

Heavy rain was moving in to lash the West Midlands tonight – bringing a risk of flash flooding.

West Brom were today waiting anxiously for news on Shane Long after the striker was hit by an Alan Hutton challenge that boss Roy Hodgson branded “wicked.”