From the smallest stick insect to the tallest giraffe – every single animal in Dudley Zoo’s collection has been counted as part of the venue’s annual “stock take”.

Vets could be called in to sedate horses found roaming in Tipton in a bid to clear them from the streets.

They work on Christmas Day so they can bring pressies in for their favourite animals.

Work on a £10 million pound town centre development that will link two popular tourist attractions will start within weeks, it was announced today.

Trainee keeper Hannah Fellows, 16, has adopted lots of animals, become a member and did loads of ‘Keeper For a Day’ experiences in her pursuit to be a keeper at Dudley Zoo.

A new link road between two major tourist attractions in a West Midlands town is set to be one of the first projects built as part of a £10 million transformation, it was revealed today.

More than 200 new jobs will be created in Dudley as part of a £10million transformation of the Castle Hill district, it was revealed today.

A £4.5million grant to kick-start a five-year regeneration project in Dudley was today given the thumbs-up by finance bosses in Europe.

Zoo keeper Graham Chilton is raising a glass to celebrate his retirement after travelling to the four corners of the globe in his passion for animals.

A Dudley Zoo keeper went for the big gesture when proposing to his girlfriend – using a huge banner hung on the castle.