Our am dram guru Alison Norton casts her expert eye over the shows that you should be looking out for this week – including the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast, Noel Coward’s This Happy Breed and a new play written by a member of Hagley Theatre Group.

Drivers were today warned of icy conditions on the Midlands’ roads after a weekend of chaos triggered by heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures.

A bride-to-be’s wedding dream is in tatters following the mystery closure of Weston Hall in Staffordshire just 15 weeks before her big day.

A pioneering health initiative targeting early detection of bowel cancer among young people is being rolled out at two Staffordshire hospitals.

Were you enjoying a night out at Bar Sport in Cannock when the Express & Star photographer called in? Check out our photo gallery.

A severe weather warning was today issued for the West Midlands, with heavy snow expected to blanket the region over the weekend.

Around £102 million of council tax and business rates went uncollected in the West Midlands last year, a new study has found.

Apprenticeships are the hot career path for Black Country and Staffordshire youngsters worried about the prospect of hefty university fees as high as £9,000 a year – as a newly-launched recruitment event proved.

Two men from Staffordshire were today behind bars for their role in a counterfeit cigarette racket capable of making up to 625 million counterfeit cigarettes and five million pouches of fake hand rolling tobacco a year.

Lichfield Festival’s popular market day is to get a new name and new backing for 2012, with the announcement that Florette UK, the bagged salad specialist which has its UK headquarters at Fradley Business Park, Lichfield, is to become its major sponsor.