Wednesfield news


Wolves fan gets three year ban for kicking policeman

A lifelong Wolves fan was today starting a three-year ban from attending any matches after lashing out at a police officer following the team’s 3-2 defeat to Villa at Molineux last month.


Tributes are paid to bubbly daughter

A woman who was left severely disabled after an operation to remove a brain tumour as a teenager has died after suffering a relapse.


Tributes to youth killed in car crash

This is the first picture of tragic teenager Chris Bains, who was killed in a car crash in Wednesfield.


Teenager killed after car hits garden wall

A teenager was killed when a car veered on to the pavement and demolished a garden wall in a horror crash that left three others injured.


Singer’s sudden death left family ‘in limbo’

The devastated family of a promising Wolverhampton singer who died suddenly on New Year’s Day, have been told no cause of death can be found. Mother-of-two Natalie Cooper was 32.


Just 157 complete survey on police cuts

Fewer than 160 people have completed an online questionnaire about proposed overnight closures of police stations across the West Midlands, it emerged today.


The Navigation Inn, Fibbersley, Willenhall

It’s not very often you go into a pub as a complete stranger and almost everybody stops and says hello, writes Catherine Dalton.


Wolverhampton raid gang in 65-mile chase

Raiders led police on a 65-mile high-speed chase through Wolverhampton today after using heavy cutters to try to steal a cash point machine.


Meningitis reminder for parents as illness strikes

Parents were today being reminded to be on the lookout for signs of meningitis in their children after a small number of cases were reported in the West Midlands.


Wolverhampton gets new wheelie bins

New wheelie bins were being delivered to homes in Wolverhampton today – signalling the end of green boxes and unpopular white bags.

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