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Strong winds will continue to batter the Midlands until the new year, forecasters said today.

A £90,000 scheme to improve an accident-plagued road in Willenhall is due to start in just over a month’s time, it emerged today. Clarkes Lane has been the scene of 18 accidents in the past three years.

The British Car Jumping Championships sees drivers accelerate over a ramp in an attempt to fly over a line of wrecked old cars. Watch our video.

Linda Lusardi, Sam Kane, the Grumbleweeds, Niki Evans and the seven Dwarfs have been grabbing all the headline at this year’s hugely successful pantomime at Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre.

Right then. This is the year I finally do it . . . give up smoking!

Wolverhampton’s Wayne Jones had no answer to the clinical finishing of Adrian Lewis as he tumbled out of the PDC World Championships to the reigning champion.

Peter Rhodes writes: Foxhunting is a sport based almost entirely on whoppers, plus the curious belief among hunters that if Joe Public only understood hunting, he would support it (we do, thanks – and we don’t).

Long-suffering Black Country residents are celebrating after they were told that a derelict precinct blighting their lives is finally to be knocked down.

Paralympic hopeful Ryan Cockbill is to star in a television documentary about his sporting successes.

A new tea-room, kitchen and shop will be created at Wolverhampton’s Wightwick Manor in plans revealed today which bosses hope will lead to more tourist visits.