Great-grandfather Tony Southall is the toast of his allotments – after growing a corker of a cabbage, which weighed in at 25lb 2oz.

Twin sisters Amanda and Leanne Hopkins are literally in the pink – after a change of colour scheme doubled their business overnight.

Two cowardly drug-fuelled thugs who attacked an 87-year-old deaf and partly blind man in his home and robbed him of his life savings have been jailed for four years.

Four men at the forefront of a riotous crowd who tore down barriers and attacked the police during an EDL march in the Black Country have been locked up.

More than 200 youngsters from scouting groups across Stourbridge gathered in the town for an annual parade honouring St George’s Day.

A well-loved swan that had lived on the pool at a Black Country housing estate for at least 23 years has died after being savaged by a dog.

Hollywood beckons for a Black Country medic who wrote his debut novel between hospital shifts.

A 36-place old people’s care home will close because Dudley Council says it needs £1million spending on it to bring it up to scratch.

A war veteran who took part in the D-Day landings in Normandy and repaired army tanks on the battlefield has died, aged 87.

Boundary changes at the next election might mean five MPs could lose their seats, as Daniel Wainwright reports.