A bag full of plastic taken to a Midlands rubbish tip to be recycled was turned away by staff because it contained a lone yoghurt pot.
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Nurse Helen’s a smash hit
Helen Pugh’s neighbours have stopped taking a second glance when music mogul Pete Waterman walks up her drive.
Stranded James walks on water
A driver from a company called Carford is getting a ribbing from colleagues – after his own CAR became stuck in a FORD near Wolverhampton.
Couple’s dead unlucky win
A beauty salon owner who tried to win a lavish dream wedding has instead scooped a voucher for a funeral.
Going bananas for ‘monkey’
Many species of unusual wildlife have been spotted on Cannock Chase over the years but one more is causing visitors to do a double take.
You can’t park here!
Traffic wardens have sparked new anger in Wolverhampton – by slapping £30 parking tickets on cars for sale outside a city showroom.
Crazy daisy found on lawn
Move over the four-leafed clover – this strange yellow flower is more bizarre by far.
Sweet pair in final
Two Black Country youngsters are hoping they have a face sweet enough for luxury department store Harvey Nichols after making it through to the final of a nationwide search.
Dead too big for furnaces
Bodies from the West Midlands are having to be sent to a crematorium in London - because they are too fat to fit into furnaces here.
Ashes to ashes, bus to dust
Former bus driver Joe Harvey says that when he dies he wants his cremated ashes to be added to one of the road-grit bins on his old route - to help keep the buses running.
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