Serial fraudster and former West Midlands football club chairman Bill Williams will be forced to pay back just a fraction of his £413,000 criminal enterprise.

Labour strengthened its stranglehold on Sandwell Council, winning all 24 seats contested in the election and ousting the former Tory opposition leader.

Duchess of Dudley Lizzie Wiggins says she is now “back in harness” after taking time out from the stage to care for her husband after he was taken seriously ill.

Twenty two seconds into the song Embrace The Abyss, the lead singer emits a piercing, sustained squeal of such sustained intensity that it can only be Judas Priest’s Rob Halford. Right? No, wrong . . . this is Disarm Goliath.

Almost 160 horses have been rounded up from the streets of Dudley since a pilot project run by police began a year ago.

Thousands of residents will take to streets around the Black Country and Staffordshire this weekend for parades and events to celebrate St George’s Day.

Tipton and Coseley Building Society today announced its assets grew by 4.18 per cent in 2011.

Car parts firms across the Midlands are enjoying a boom in business thanks to the growth of Jaguar Land Rover, with the manufacturer’s new i54 engine plant set to support 3,000 jobs, the Express & Star can reveal.

A remote-control model of the Titanic was launched into the water at a Sandwell park to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship. With video.

A man appeared in court today charged with the murder of a university student in Tipton – as police confirmed she died from asphyxiation.