Two drivers who caused a fatal crash after racing their high performance cars through residential streets at more than 100mph were today starting jail terms totalling more than 16 years.

An accident blackspot road in Gornal is to get £50,000 of improvements in a new safety scheme announced today. Campaigners today celebrated the news their concerns about Straits Road have been heard by highways chiefs.

A Black Country band is revelling in a “mix-up” over its name – which is just one letter away from X Factor winners Little Mix.

Dozens of mothers and fathers in the Black Country were given the very best present possible, as they welcomed their own Christmas Day bundles of joy.

Residents in Dudley are being asked to foot the bill after a spate of thefts of garden waste wheelie bins.

Undercover police cars will be trailing cash vans used by banks, betting shops and supermarkets in a new crackdown on cash-in-transit robberies.

A man was today facing a jail sentence after admitting killing a father with a single punch in a Dudley street.

Around 200 manhole covers have been stolen across Dudley over the last three weeks as thieves look to cash in on the soaring price of scrap metal.