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.

The 20th century saw a decline in coal mining in the Black Country.

Almost 100 reports of stray horses causing havoc in a Black Country borough were logged with council chiefs in two months, new figures have revealed.

A father who had been dogged by tragedy over the last three decades, losing two tiny children through illness and a brother who was stabbed to death, has died suddenly from a heart attack at the age of only 44.

Sixteen stray horses have been seized by police since officers began rounding them up off Dudley’s streets almost a month ago.

Dawn raids were today carried out on four addresses in the West Midlands as part of a probe into a suspected rogue trader ring targeting more than 100 elderly and vulnerable people.