More than £30,000 has been spent clearing a sewer after vandals blocked it up with a scaffold pipe and rubble.

Residents in flood-hit Streetly today revealed that it could be months before they are able to move back into their severely water-damaged homes.

The family of a Midland pensioner who died four days after having a car accident have paid tribute to “a wonderful man” who once designed a stamp for royalty.

A cabaret dancer from the Midlands who was on board the stricken cruise ship Costa Allegra described how her anxiety turned to calm with the crew banding together as she returned home following the drama.

The sister of a Walsall teenager caught up in the Costa Concordia disaster is aboard the Costa Allegra that was cast adrift more than 200 miles from the Seychelles.

Singing schoolgirl Connie Talbot has become an internet hit once again – after a version of a Whitney Houston song attracted more than 37,000 views across the globe.

The hunt for the killer of Midland schoolteacher Betty Yates is set to go national with a TV appeal on the BBC’s Crimewatch tonight.

A teenager from the West Midlands today told how he led a dramatic rescue of terrified passengers as chaos gripped the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner.

A retired teacher killed at her secluded Wyre Forest cottage was stabbed in the neck and found at the foot of the stairs, an inquest was told today.

A banned motorist who drove a coach full of children to a Black Country school on a false licence while three times the alcohol limit was today starting a 17-month jail sentence.