The Staffordshire Hoard was today hailed as a “global phenomenon” after more than 50,000 visitors flocked to a touring exhibition in America.

Bogus rat catchers are targeting residents in a Black Country town, with some elderly victims duped out of hundreds of pounds.

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

The overhaul of a supermarket creating scores of new jobs is on hold after bosses admitted that there is no start date for the scheme.

A metal thief targeted a hospital and a charity, stealing more than £4,000 in lead, a court heard.

James Beech and George Battenbough bowed out of the ABA Schoolboys national championships in the quarter-finals at the weekend.

Pleck ABC’s James Beech was today tipped to be “as sharp as a razor” when the fights for the third time in nine days in the ABA Schoolboys national championships.

A brewery will expand its capacity by more than 300 per cent after increasing beer production by more than a third in a year.

Walsall’s James Beech made it through to the quarter-finals of the ABA Schoolboys national championships – after nearly having his Midlands title took away from him.

Midlands champions Liam Gould and James Beech are set to take their first foray into the national stages of the ABA Schoolboys competition.