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Condemned Coseley baths entered its final chapter today as contractors appointed to demolish the building moved onto the site.

A Black Country council has been ordered to pay £50,000 in fines and costs after a worker was killed when he was hit by a loading bucket at its road maintenance depot.

The cost to taxpayers of building new hospitals in the West Midlands will come to £10 billion – four times what they are worth, it has emerged.

Hundreds of anxious residents packed into a public meeting vowing to fight plans for a 41ft phone mast near their Black Country homes.

An investigation has cleared Dudley Council of blame over claims it started demolition work at Coseley baths before permission to reduce the building to rubble had been granted.

A woman became impaled on a spiked fence after trying to take a shortcut through the yard of a Black Country car sales garage.

Schoolchildren are being banned from wearing blazers and taking bags into a Tesco store in the Black Country.

Thousands of jobs were at risk today after administrators were called in at budget retailer Ethel Austin and the chain’s sister company, home interiors specialist Au Naturale.

More than a fifth of the shops in an ailing Black Country town centre are lying empty, new figures have revealed.

It was a weight off his mind when Black Country bridegroom Richard Palmer hitched a ride in a lorry to his big day.

Our mystery diner, The Insider, takes a trip to a little gem of a pub in a Midlands village.

More than 1,000 homes were left without electricity after a power cut hit Halesowen.

Fans fighting to bring back the Heathens to speedway in the Black Country have put forward 64 suggested sites for a new stadium, it was revealed today.

The big freeze has sparked hundreds of requests for new grit bins across the West Midlands and Staffordshire, it emerged today.

A move to slash rent increases for tenants in Dudley will leave the council £450,000 out of pocket, it was revealed today.

Another stretch of road will be closed next week as part of the Black Country’s £12.3 million Burnt Tree Island roadworks.

Dudley Canal Trust has slashed some of its boat trip prices in a trial run which could continue all year if popular.

More than 1,000 council homes in Dudley do not meet basic standards.

A nuisance neighbour who made life hell for residents of a Wolverhampton suburb has been evicted.

A part-time Argos worker accused of using fake wage slips to get her hands on a £10,000 bank loan claims she was forced into it by “threats” and “blackmail”, a court heard.

Hundreds of would-be police officers in the Midlands are still waiting for jobs despite having passed entrance exams, it emerged today.

Kingswinford stairlift manufacturer Minivator has been bought by a Norwegian company in a multi-million pound takeover deal.

Heritage bosses are considering whether to grant condemned Coseley baths listed status, a move which could block council plans to demolish the building.

Four horses spent the weekend grazing on land outside a Midland hospital sparking fresh concerns for motorists’ safety.

Thousands of motorists faced a nightmare journey to work today as overnight snow and ice caught councils on the hop.

Two wards remained closed at Sandwell General Hospital today due to an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug, norovirus.

Wintry weather returned to the West Midlands today – causing travel problems across the region.

Pulling a two-year-old girl from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake is a “miracle moment” a Black Country firefighter will never forget.

Rogue scrap merchants were at the centre of a swoop by police cracking down on the sale of stolen metal in the Black Country.

A binman was crushed by a lorry while on his rounds in Kingswinford.