Severn Trent  is losing enough water in a single year to fill more than 83,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, due to burst and cracked pipes in the West Midlands.

Four thousand benefits cheats in Staffordshire and the Black Country are being probed by investigators who are using undercover surveillance.

A bus has been dedicated to the memory of Black Country football legend Duncan Edwards at a ceremony held in his hometown.

It is the blight on society that costs the taxpayer millions of pounds every year – but today investigators warned they are getting tougher than ever before on benefits cheats. Features undercover video footage.

Britain’s Got Talent act Twist and Pulse dropped in on a Black Country school to wow pupils with their dance skills.

More than a third of all secondary schools in the West Midlands are now academies, latest Government figures show.

Fire chiefs have earmarked four potential sites for the new fire station to cover the Cradley Heath and Halesowen area.

Property consultants have been commissioned to look into alternative uses for The Public. The company Jones Lang LaSalle has been asked by Sandwell Council to review the potential uses for the £72million West Bromwich arts centre.

Jobless queues in Wolverhampton are getting longer, new figures revealed today – bucking the national trend of unemployment falling for the first time in almost a year.

National Express today announced it will recruit 1,700 people in the West Midlands over the next three years.