Roy Hodgson targets clean sheets

Roy Hodgson has set West Brom a double-figures clean sheets target to guarantee another impressive Premier League season.


Homecoming parade for Black Country soldiers

Soldiers from across the Black Country and Staffordshire will take part in a series of homecoming parades to mark the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan.


Horse protest taken to Sandwell Council bosses

Horse owners are to meet Black Country council bosses to discuss a policy to seize horses left on public open land.


Crushed Walsall bus worker is fighting for his life

A worker was fighting for his life today after he was crushed between two buses at a depot in the Black Country.


Black Country braced for eight months of roadworks

A busy dual carriageway through the Black Country will be reduced to a single lane for more than eight months during work on the overhead M6.


Counterfeit clothes and illegal cigarettes seized in Dudley

Illegal cigarettes and counterfeit clothing worth thousands of pounds has been confiscated following a raid on a stall at Dudley Market. Almost 80,000 cigarettes were seized.


Midland Olympic Village firm closes without warning

The future of 150 jobs at a Midland firm working on London’s Olympic Village were in doubt today after it closed its operations without warning.


100,000 fewer trips taken on Ring and Ride

The number of trips taken by Ring and Ride users in the West Midlands has dropped by more than 100,000 compared to a year ago, new figures reveal.


Wolverhampton rioter admits handling stolen goods

A rioter who went home with jewellery from a ransacked shop when violence flared in Wolverhampton has pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods.


Public meeting on Wyre Forest gipsy site plan

Members of the public are invited to a meeting of Bewdley Town Council which has been called on Thursday to discuss its response to controversial plans for new gipsy and traveller sites in Wyre Forest.

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