Firefighters battled for two hours to rescue a horse which had fallen into a canal culvert in the Black Country.

Hundreds of catalytic converters have been ripped from parked cars in Staffordshire and the West Midlands this year by thieves cashing in on soaring metal prices, new figures have revealed.

Residents in Dudley are being asked to foot the bill after a spate of thefts of garden waste wheelie bins.

A motorist who left her car at a Black Country garage for repairs was slapped with a parking fine and hounded by debt collectors after a mechanic drove it to his bank and picked up a ticket. Clare Griffiths was forced to pay out £198.

Three horses were killed and two seriously injured in an arson attack on a stables in the Black Country.

A mural paying tribute to soldiers who lost their lives on the battlefield has been unveiled by a Black Country branch of the Royal British Legion.

More than 4,200 illegal immigrants have been caught in Staffordshire and the Midlands and deported in the last year, new Home Office figures today reveal.

Plans for a new £3million health centre in Pensnett offering a GP surgery and specialist treatments have been unveiled.

They caused mayhem in their pitiful search for food – dodging traffic and creating wild west scenes on Black Country housing estates.

Up to 70 manufacturing jobs are being axed in Dudley after a bed maker announced that it is moving its production to Kent.