Staffordshire digger giant JCB has recorded the best ever sales and profit figures in its 66-year history, it was revealed today.

The long-awaited electrification of the rail line between Walsall, Cannock and Rugeley is at risk after the West Midlands region was snubbed in a £10 billion plan of national projects.

The owner of Rugeley Power Station today accepted a £6billion takeover offer that will see it fall into French ownership.

The UK Open qualifiers ‘kept up with the Joneses’ at the weekend but it was Brierley Hill’s Mark who prevailed in his battle with Wolverhampton’s Wayne.

Generous readers have helped a Staffordshire dog owner reach his fundraising target to stop his 14-month-old Siberian husky from going blind.

Three towns in the West Midlands were today named in the top five for house sales in the country.

A jealous ex-bus driver who tried to strangle his estranged partner because he thought she was having an affair with a colleague has been jailed for more than five years.

This was the scene of devastation following a suspected arson attack on Brownhills Common.

A cowboy roofer who left his victims more than £10,500 out of pocket has been jailed – but will not have to pay a penny in compensation.

An audiologist stole his employer’s customers by selling them his own hearing aids and pocketing almost £30,000, a judge heard.