Thousands of young people from schools across the region are being invited to find out about apprenticeship schemes at a series of events this week.

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.

Students and staff at two Walsall schools are celebrating the opening of their combined academy.

Councillors in Walsall have narrowly voted down a recommendation to in-crease the allowances of their leaders.

A proposed increase in allowances for senior councillors in Walsall has been dropped, it was announced today.

A site for 11 new traveller pitches in the West Midlands will need to be found by council chiefs.

Senior councillors in Walsall are set to receive increases in allowances of up to £6,700, it can be revealed today.

Plans for more than 800 long-awaited new homes on the site of an abandoned Walsall estate are set to be submitted early in the new year.

More than £1 million will be spent revamping Walsall Council House and Civic Centre in the next two years, it was revealed today.

A loss of almost £50,000 will be made by Willenhall Market this year, it emerged today.