Around £1.4 million worth of restoration work will be carried out on West Bromwich’s historic Oak House barns in moves which bosses hope will attract thousands of extra visitors.

Bailiffs recovered more than £30 million after councils sent them into homes and businesses in the West Midlands – visiting 100 people daily, it can be revealed.

The Public art gallery will be the centrepiece of the sweeping regeneration of West Bromwich, as these new artist’s impressions show.

Council tax is set to be frozen in Sandwell next year, in return for a government grant. The council says that it wants the “best deal” for residents.

Vets could be called in to sedate horses found roaming in Tipton in a bid to clear them from the streets.

It is taking political transparency to a new level. Representatives of a West Midland council are the latest charity fundraisers to bare all for a good cause.

Elderly people needing care in Sandwell will be tracked via satellite in case they get lost and watched through their television instead of receiving home care visits.

Rewards of up to £1,000 are being offered for information leading to the conviction of metal thieves stealing drain covers in the Black Country.

More schools in Sandwell have applied for permission to install solar panels in a bid to generate their own electricity.

A total of 1,500 jobs will go at Sandwell Council within the next four years as the authority makes £75 million budget cuts, it emerged today.