Landowners along the route of the controversial £32 billion high-speed rail line will be offered an initial payment of £1,000 for allowing surveyors access to their land, it has been announced.

Thousands of people who applied to be bus drivers in the West Midlands have been turned down, with many rejected for penalty points on their driving licences, it has emerged.

House prices in the West Midlands and across the country have both fallen as the market shows further signs of deterioration, official figures show.

A total of £20 million will be spent on more than 100 new buses in the West Midlands this year, transport bosses revealed today.

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.

Temperatures in the region are set to plunge as low as -4C (25F) this week as Arctic winds send a shudder down the spine of the British Isles.

Staffordshire has seen the biggest fall in manufacturing jobs in the country since the last recession, a study revealed today – with the West Midlands deemed the worst-hit region.

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.

There were mixed results for West Midlands schools as the national league tables for A-level and GCSE results were published today.

Police today revealed they have made 10 further arrests in connection with the riots which rocked parts of the West Midlands last summer.