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Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards is set to make his first-team comeback in the West Midlands derby at Villa next Saturday.

The full extent of the black hole in West Midland council pension funds was revealed today as a staggering £2.8billion.

Utility firms may have to pre-book and pay to carry out roadworks across the West Midlands – and could be fined if they overrun.

Walsall wide man Julian Gray will be given free rein to unleash hell on Yeovil after boss Chris Hutchings backed his wing wonder to shine.

West Midlands Police officers and staff have taken time off sick for headaches nearly 400 times, it was revealed today.

Three out of four auto parts makers in the West Midlands have had to cut staff as they struggle to cope with the recession and the slump in demand for cars, a new report reveals.

Police jobs will be lost in the West Midlands as the force makes cuts and savings of £50 million over the next four years, the region’s most senior officer has warned.

Acorns Children’s Hospice is in a battle for extra NHS funding to help it care for more than 600 sick children across the West Midlands.

Almost 2,300 Civil Service job vacancies across the West Midlands have been secretly advertised to existing government employees, it was claimed today.

A schoolboy returned from his ninth birthday party to find crooks had stolen his presents and ransacked his home.

Pulling a two-year-old girl from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake is a “miracle moment” a Black Country firefighter will never forget.

Nearly 20 violent crimes are carried out every week on buses and at transport interchanges across the West Midlands, new figures show.

Learner motorists are being targeted for intimidation by road rage ‘idiots’ according to one of Britain’s biggest driving schools.

Stuart Watkiss may be born and bred in Wolverhampton but there is one team for him at the KC Stadium on Saturday – Hull City.

Dream cars worth a total of £385,000 have been seized by police investigating a major underworld fraud gang in the West Midlands.

More than 230 ambulance staff in the West Midlands reported being either physically or verbally attacked in just six months, according to new figures.

Jaguar Land Rover boss David Smith has stepped down, the West Midlands-based car maker announced.

Almost 400 drink drivers were caught by police on roads in the West Midlands over the Christmas period, it was revealed today.

Kidderminster Harriers chairman Barry Norgrove has confirmed that the club are on course to have a new manager in place by the weekend.

Front line police officers in Wolverhampton are to be given tasers for the first time from Monday, it was revealed today.

Another week, another cannabis factory unearthed in the Black Country. Elizabeth Joyce reports.

Further signs of a bumper high street Christmas emerged today as bakery chain Greggs said it sold more than a million mince pies each week of the festive period.

Boxing is back for 2010 – and January starts as it means to go on.

It is the longest cold spell to hit the West Midlands in decades and the disruption is set to get worse.

The man behind a “sinister” plot to blackmail Asda stores across the Black Country out of thousands of pounds has been jailed.

Another selection of pictures showing the snow that hit the West Midlands on Tuesday morning.

The predicted snowfall has begun to hit the Black Country and the West Midlands.

Snow was returning to the West Midlands today as 2010 starts as 2009 ended – with no end in sight to the freezing temperatures.

The number of people killed at work in the West Midlands over the last year has nearly halved, but employers were today urged to do more after accidents claimed more than 13,000 casualties.

A quango set up to bring investment into the West Midlands has spent £75,000 of taxpayers’ money letting its staff fly business class, it was revealed today.