Children, staff and parents from Crocketts Community Primary School, in Smethwick, were treated to a ‘magical’ performance of Jon Shepherd’s Reuben Whizzbanger’s Magical Museum, by year 3 and 4.

Three cars were destroyed and two other vehicles damaged when flames tore through a garage in the Black Country.

Anger is growing among the Sikh community in the West Midlands at a planned execution due to take place in India tomorrow.

A fruit packer from the Black Country who cheated death in an M5 horror crash has told how he blacked out and woke up in hospital to discover his brother had died.

A man from Smethwick who died following a horror crash on the M5 has today been named as father of three Liaquat Ali.

A driver whose lorry hit the back of a coach on the M5 in thick fog, killing a passenger and injuring more than 40, has died in hospital.

A businessman this afternoon offered a £14,000 reward to find the armed gang responsible for a terrifying raid on the luxury Pattingham home he shares with his fiancee – as he revealed the attack had “destroyed” their lives.

A mother from Smethwick whose breast cancer spread undetected for more than a year despite nine visits to her GP has welcomed the suspension handed to the doctor.

Lord Jim Knight, together with Doug Brown from Step A International, a world-wide educational, advisory organisation visited Shireland Collegiate Academy in Smethwick to look at the innovative use of technology used across the academy to support learning.

A selection of Sandwell nostaligia photographs which are available to purchase online from the Express & Star.