Despite a year of record breaking A-Level results and hordes of smiling faces, not everybody will have received the news that they were hoping for.

Poundland has announced its profits have soared by more than 80 per cent as it enjoys a boom through the recession.

A retail fightback against the trading recession will kick off this weekend, spearheaded by former Lord Mayor of Birmingham Sir Bernard Zissman.

Job-seeking blogger James Alexander is fed up of being told to ‘just get a job’ and just wants to be given a chance to shine.

More than £100 million has been paid out in council tax and housing benefits to residents in one Black Country borough in the last year, it has emerged.

Stafford Rangers believe they are in the driving seat to attract good players to Marston Road this summer in the wake of the economic climate.

Lincoln manager Chris Sutton reckons Walsall could have dropped a clanger in cutting Josh O’Keefe from their squad this summer.

Walsall manager Chris Hutchings has targeted some “rich pickings” this summer in setting about reshaping his Saddlers squad.

Blink and you’ll miss them but it’s not a magic trick – Walsall’s disappearing thousands are real.

David Cameron now seems to have turned his get-up-close approach to animal – or at least bird – welfare, writes John Hipwood.