A driver had to be cut free from the mangled wreckage of his car after it smashed into a lamppost in Bilston.

Up to 13 Black Country ambulance stations are set to be closed in a £7 million shake up of the service, it emerged today.

A medical hearing has heard that a paramedic failed to diagnose heart failure in a patient, who died days after being admitted to a Black Country hospital.

Paramedics took an hour and a half to respond to a life-threatening emergency in Wolverhampton after getting stuck in heavy snow = 11 times their target for reaching the most serious 999 calls.

Two men were killed today in separate car crashes in the West Midlands. The tragedies were part of a busy night for the region’s emergency services.

A hospital in the Black Country today clashed with West Midlands Ambulance Service after asking it to divert patients from its accident and emergency department.

Equipmemnt worth thousands of pounds has been stolen from ambulances while paramedics helped patients in the West Midlands, new figures reveal.

Ambulances in the West Midlands are being held up for up to two hours at a time as paramedics are left waiting with patients at the region’s hospitals, it emerged today.

More than 40 serious incidents and cases of malpractice were reported at West Midlands Ambulance Service in three years, including people falling off stretchers in ambulances and one crew failing to notice its patient had died.

A mechanic who spent almost 38 years keeping hundreds of ambulances on the road in the West Midlands has geared down for retirement.