Tatters are increasingly returning to the use of horses and carts to collect scrap metal in the Black Country, prompting renewed calls for regulation of the trade amid concerns the old-style transport may be causing traffic problems.

Plans for more than 800 long-awaited new homes on the site of an abandoned Walsall estate are set to be submitted early in the new year.

A former Walsall councillor described as a man of the people who loved the community he served has died at the age of 79.

More than 50 tyres went up in flames after being set alight by arsonists in Walsall, forcing firefighters to demolish most of the derelict building they were being stored in.

The future of a community group that faced eviction from its home of almost 30 years has been secured  after a long running legal dispute with a council.

A debt-ridden conman has been jailed for 26 weeks after he duped an elderly couple into handing over £800 of their savings.

A Walsall teenager, who was left fighting for his life after a street fight, said 16 months in prison is not enough for his attacker. Kearon McNicol told how he had had to learn to walk again after nearly dying.