The Black Country today counted four new junior ABA Midlands champions as they marched through to the national stages of the competition.

Broadcasting from his trendy Black Country salon, hairdresser David James first hit the headlines with his online style school – and tonight he will be playing to a much bigger crowd on Britain’s Got Talent.

Pleck ABC’s James Beech was today tipped to be “as sharp as a razor” when the fights for the third time in nine days in the ABA Schoolboys national championships.

Midlands champions Liam Gould and James Beech are set to take their first foray into the national stages of the ABA Schoolboys competition.

A hat-trick of local amateur fighters were today preparing for the national stages of the ABA Schoolboys competition as the dust settled on the Midlands finals.

A  ‘Magnificent Seven’ of local amateurs will get the chance to win Midlands titles and progress to the national stages of the ABA Schoolboys competition.

A fish has been taken from a sculpture of an angler next to a canal and replaced with a golden wellington boot.

This is the three ton hydraulic press worth thousands of pounds that was stolen from a firm in Walsall.

Metal thieves have stolen a three-ton hydraulic press from an engineering firm in Walsall.

Five West Midlands fighters advanced to the national finals of the ABA Novice championships after a busy day of boxing in Bedworth.