A shop manager stole more than £19,000 in takings from the branch of 99p Stores he ran and then gambled it away at a casino, a court was told.

Around 17 drivers a day have been caught speeding on just seven miles of the M5 since the start of a £9.32 million roadworks scheme, it emerged today.

These days it can be difficult to find somewhere to go for lunch that offers something affordable but different to the typical chain pub grub or stone-baked pizzas, writes Adam Burling.

To anyone who might have spied me smoking a cigarette since New Year and thought “aha, we’ve caught her out”- I really am giving up, writes Louise Jew.

A criminal gang that sold stolen luxury cars in a £1.1 million “highly-sophisticated and well-planned” con was today starting prison sentences totalling 32 years.

Our am dram guru Alison Norton casts her expert eye over the shows that you should be looking out for this week.

Thousands of UK shop workers – scores of them in Staffordshire and the Black Country – today faced the prospect of losing their jobs in the collapse of budget fashion chain Peacocks.

An eight-year battle has been won for a pedestrian crossing to be installed on a road in Halesowen labelled one of the most dangerous in Britain.

Fewer than 160 people have completed an online questionnaire about proposed overnight closures of police stations across the West Midlands, it emerged today.

Kristian Thomas was today confident he could land a place in the Team GB squad for the Olympic Games after a “perfect” display in the London Prepares gymnastics test event at the North Greenwich arena.