Brandhall Primary School in Oldbury is organising a two-day Outdoor Learning Festival next month.

A plumber who billed an Oldbury pensioner £2,224 after being called out to his home to repair a leaky tap has been spared a prison sentence.

A heavily pregnant woman, who was taken on a terrifying ride by a carjacker before being forced out of the moving Range Rover, today told of her ordeal and said: “I feared I was going to die”.

A new girls’ free school in Sandwell could move into an Oldbury school building once pupils there move to a £20 million new site.

Firefighters were called to a burning skip containing tyres and scrap metal in West Bromwich.

Children, staff and parents from Crocketts Community Primary School, in Smethwick, were treated to a ‘magical’ performance of Jon Shepherd’s Reuben Whizzbanger’s Magical Museum, by year 3 and 4.

Work on a new ambulance hub for more than 200 staff is due to start in the Black Country this week.

A man who hurled tiles at police in a 90 minute siege after being caught trying to steal lead from the roof of a West Midland primary school has been jailed for 16 months.

A Staffordshire charity that fell victim to a married couple who sold on its cheap designer clothes for hugely inflated prices today declared: “Justice has been done” – as the couple behind the con were jailed.

A husband and wife ran a £1million fake designer clothes racket from their home, while also buying cheap outfits from a Staffordshire charity and selling them for a huge profit, a court heard.