Five people from the West Midlands have been arrested in connection with a “highly organised” burglary in which two Chinese artefacts worth £2 million were snatched.

Work on a new ambulance hub for more than 200 staff is due to start in the Black Country this week.

More than £7 million is to be ploughed into refurbishing and renovating schools across one Black Country borough in the next 12 months.

The number of empty shops blighting a town centre in the Black Country will be tackled thanks to a £100,000 cash boost from the Government.

He is known by residents on his rounds as the singing postman.

A legend of the Midlands club scene was remembered as six musical acts went head to head in West Bromwich for the second annual Jack Stain Memorial Trophy.

A prolific and persistent thief who stole hundreds of pounds from the bank account of a cancer-stricken army veteran was today behind bars.

Two smugglers who masterminded a plot to bring 24 million counterfeit cigarettes into the West Midlands by posing as legitimate businessmen have been jailed.

A murder probe was under way today after a man died at a house in Willenhall.

Traders are turning their backs on Walsall town centre, blighted by vacant shops, to set up in the surrounding districts instead, figures revealed today.