As Louise Odin loads six bullets into the rifle she looks across the room to her husband Vic, who stands blindfolded and handcuffed.

It was supposed to be a practical joke, but when car nut Kevin Barton placed a newspaper advert claiming he loved his tyres more than his wife, it almost drove her away.

Space Agency NASA will be transporting the name of one Black Country man beyond the far reaches of the solar system on its next expedition into space.

A shark attack in the Black Country all sounds a bit fishy but schoolboy Sam Hawthorne has a story to really get your teeth into.

A Walsall headteacher today said it was “child protection gone mad” after he was investigated because a criminal records check showed he had forgotten to renew his fishing rod licence.

Widowed pensioner Joyce Anslow was stunned when she received a letter asking relatives to settle her electricity account after her unfortunate death.

A trip to the barber’s for Ray James means hopping in his 22-year-old Morris Minor and motoring hundreds of miles back from his home in the Scottish Highlands to his favourite hairdressers’ in the Black Country.

A brass-necked bandit stole an office door knob while staff worked in the latest attempt to cash in on rising metal prices.

A clump of ice plummeted from the sky and smashed into a moving car, sparking mayhem in a quiet Black Country street.

It’s amazing the lengths some girls will go to when it comes to hairstyles – knee-length to be precise.

Meet Little Goose, the bird that was hatched from an egg bought at Penkridge Market.

Any surviving relatives of Fred the former Wolverhampton ring road tramp were today being sought by the Government to claim a share of his secret stash of cash.