A former coroner for South Staffordshire who was instrumental in improving the safety of trains has died aged 81.

Jazz often conjures up images of late-night sounds in dark basement clubs – but a guitar-playing Lichfield café owner could change all that.

The meticulously-planned escape of prisoner John Anslow, who is suspected of murdering a Staffordshire father, has been branded “shocking” in a debate at the House of Lords.

Police community support officers throughout Staffordshire are now able to seize drugs and alcohol as well as detain suspects following the granting of new powers.

Hundreds of hardcore athletes took on an extreme course made even more gruelling by extreme weather at the weekend.

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 driver was seriously injured when his van came off the road and toppled onto its side in Staffordshire today, trapping him in the cab.

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

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

TV funnyman Graham Norton has stepped in to help a West Midlands-based band which had all their instruments stolen hours before recording an appearance on his show, to be screened today.