Dudley’s ‘Karate Kid’ Thomas Hickman has been playing it by the book ahead of his trip to Azerbaijan for the junior European championships.

Weekly bin collections are to be protected in parts of the West Midlands as councils bid for millions of pounds of Government cash to maintain the number of rounds. Fortnightly rounds will stay in South Staffordshire.

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

A councillor has admitted assault after throwing a pudding bowl at his wife’s head – sparking calls for him to resign.

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

Train services in the Black Country and Staffordshire could be cut when the deal to run the West Coast Main Line is renewed later this year, it emerged today.

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.

Wolverhampton Civic Hall will stage its second pro boxing show in as many months in March with a Midlands welterweight title fight at the top of the card.

A continental-style bar and restaurant will be built at a historic site in Dudley as part of town centre regeneration plans.

A grit mountain has built up in Staffordshire and the West Midlands, meaning there is surplus stock available for the current cold snap.