The Fox & Anchor. What a curious name, writes our undercover meal reviewer The Insider. It’s next to a canal, so the Anchor bit seems logical enough. The Fox is usually a reference to hunting, used by pubs with a country sports tradition.

Hopefully by now you’ve kick-started your summer into action and while many of you might be planning good times abroad, there’s still plenty of fun and frolics to be had closer to home, says Midland DJ Stuart Ojelay.

Controversial plans to expand a gipsy camp in the South Staffordshire green belt today moved closer to reality after councillors were recommended to approve them – despite officers saying it would be an “inappropriate development”.

A driver was flown to hospital after his car left the motorway in South Staffordshire, causing miles of tailbacks and hours of delays for drivers.

A Mr Big of the Black Country’s drug dealing underworld was facing years behind bars today.

A driver whose car veered off the M54 was killed when she was hit by two cars and a lorry as she walked on to the carriageway, an inquest heard.

The devastated parents of a 30-year-old killed in a car crash just days after his birthday paid tribute to him today.

Drugs worth £60,000 have been seized along with a £25,000 Range Rover after police broke up an alleged drug deal outside a pub in Wolverhampton.

A gipsy family of 11 were terrorised by attackers who drove two stolen lorries through their site today, smashing through mobile homes and showering sleeping children with glass and bricks.

Forget soaring petrol prices – this commuter takes the laid back approach to the rush hour journey to work.