In the old days it would have been “madam” – but now it’s more likely to be “babe (or round these parts ‘bab’)”, “love”, “duck” or “chick/chuck”, writes Louise Jew.

Frontline officers will be forced to use public transport instead of panda cars due to cost-cutting at Staffordshire Police, it was revealed today.

A young entrepreneur who set up his own firm when he was 12 years old has become an ambassador for one of the world’s largest chocolate companies.

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.

An historic canalside pub will be closed over Christmas after water started to leak into the building. Villagers in Kinver were stunned when barriers went down at The Vine just over a week ago.

Our am dram guru Alison Norton casts her expert eye over the shows that you should be looking out for this week including 8 Pantos in 80 Minutes by Screaming Youth Voice Theatre, and evening of ‘Muvicals’ by Pink Productions and  Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor by The Nonentities.

A D-Day hero known to thousands of Black Country scouts who attended the camp he used to run died on Remembrance Day – wearing a poppy that nurses pinned to his hospital gown.

A £900,000 revamp of Kinver High Street will be altered after it sparked hundreds of complaints from residents and traders.

Controversial plans to install wind turbines near a picturesque Midland beauty spot have been thrown out at appeal, it was announced today.

More than 250 people got out their running shoes and braved the hilly Midland countryside for the fifth annual Kinver Rotary Club 10k fun run.