Swine flu is set to return with a vengeance in the West Midlands before Christmas, a health expert has warned.

A delivery of swine flu vaccines to Walsall has been delayed by more than one month, because of a global shortage.

Health chiefs in South Staffordshire were today drawing up battle plans to deliver a comprehensive swine flu vaccination programme.

A cleaning firm from the Black Country is turning its hand to battling the spread of swine flu.

A Staffordshire firm is distributing new air sterilisation technology to GP surgeries ahead of the expected explosion in cases of swine flu.

More than a million swine flu vaccine jabs are to be given in South Staffordshire during the autumn – with everyone getting two injections.

Security guards have been placed at anti-viral collection points across South Staffordshire as a precaution against public panic during the swine flu outbreak.

A mother of three whose children were being treated for swine flu died hours after complaining of a sore throat, an inquest heard today.

Another three people with swine flu in the West Midlands have died, health chiefs announced today.

A man from the West Midlands has died from swine flu, bringing the total number of deaths in the region to three.