The brave grandmother who armed herself with a mop and chased a masked gunman from her South Staffordshire corner shop today admitted she felt sorry for her attacker.

This CCTV shows the dramatic moments an elderly shopkeeper armed herself with a mop and chased a masked gunman from her South Staffordshire store.

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.

Market traders in a Staffordshire town have launched a new initiative to help out struggling businesses.

A shopkeeper today told how she fended off an armed robber after grabbing a mop and chasing him from her Staffordshire store on the “spur of the moment”.

A shopkeeper chased a masked gunman out of her Staffordshire store with a mop and pursued him until he fired in her direction, a court heard.

A burglar sneaked into a leisure centre pretending to be a member of a football team before kicking in the door to their changing rooms and stealing phones, cash and clothes.

A housing development, supermarket and hotel earmarked for land near a Staffordshire village are poised to be given the go-ahead – despite opposition from residents and parish councillors.

A supermarket assistant manager stole more than £11,000 worth of lottery scratch cards but never hit the jackpot, a judge heard.

Thousands of passengers caught up in chaos on the rail network after an overhead cable fault in Staffordshire were today finding out how much compensation they can claim for the disruption suffered.