A proud car dealership apprentice from South Staffordshire has been named as the Apprentice of the Year in a competition including entries from across the country.

The father of a Staffordshire girl who died in hospital seven years after she was injured as a baby has been charged with her manslaughter, prosecutors have announced.

A Staffordshire company that has picked up more than £2 million of new contracts in the last year has set its sights on European expansion after launching its first overseas operation.

A developer who donated a 12-acre site for an urgently needed cemetery in Staffordshire said today that the land was the “ideal spot”.

Hundreds of lorries will flood a South Staffordshire village each week for decades after plans to quarry an area the size of 15 football pitches near homes were approved.

The mother of murder victim Richard Deakin today spoke of her devastation and fears after one of the men accused of his killing escaped from his prison van.

Three more men were in court today charged with the murder of a father shot dead in his Staffordshire home. They are Andrew Hill and John Anslow both from Bilston, and Leigh Astbury, from Wolverhampton.

Charges have been brought against Staffordshire County Council after dangerous asbestos fibres were released into a primary school.

A controversial development of 32 new homes in South Staffordshire has been rejected by the Government’s planning inspector.

Three generations of one family today spoke about their battle with cancer – after all being diagnosed with the disease in the same month.