A stolen Audi was dropped off at a scrap yard near Wolverhampton today while police were visiting the site in a crackdown on metal thefts.

A third man has been arrested in connection with a £50,000 armed robbery at the luxury home of a South Staffordshire businessman in March.

Two teenage burglars carried out a pre-planned raid on a home in Staffordshire, a judge heard. Joshua Titley and a 17-year-old sent each other text messages, one saying that they should look for a “posh” house.

Two metal thieves who stole furniture and fittings from a former school in Staffordshire have been given community orders and told to carry out a total of 300 hours of unpaid work.

The owner of a Staffordshire firm that was targeted by metal thieves today revealed CCTV images of the suspects thought to be responsible for the raid.

A man has been found dead in a canal in Smethwick in what detectives describe as mysterious circumstances.

Criminal gangs are masterminding thousands of crash-for-cash cons across the West Midlands raking in millions of pounds, it can be revealed.

Millions of pounds worth of top-of-the-range BMWs have been stolen from driveways and car parks across Staffordshire and the West Midlands this year, police revealed today.

A neighbour of tragic Willenhall pensioner Bill Davis has been charged with his murder – as his devastated family spoke about their pain of losing him for the first time.

Two quick-thinking policeman cleared homes as a blaze sparked by a  £100,000 cannabis farm threatened to sweep through a terrace of houses in a Black Country street yesterday.