A collection of pictures from the Express & Star over the past week, including a delighted Staffordshire teacher who is half the woman she used to be, the dramatic fire on Richard Branson’s Caribbean island and jubilant scenes in Libya as rebels took the capital Tripoli.

A massive clean-up operation was today under way at Weston Park as hundreds of volunteers sifted through the sea of tents, deckchairs and clothing left behind by V Festival revellers.

Pictures of fans and some of the stars from V Festival 2011 at Weston Park. Bands include the likes of Rihanna, The Saturdays, Eminem, Olly Murs and Bruno Mars while celebrities include Coleen Rooney and Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington.

It was the year pop took over the V Festival with a line-up packed full of chart-topping artists.

Developers have won a fight to install a 230ft wind mast at the site of a controversial windfarm in South Staffordshire.

Here’s a way to enjoy the V Festival in style – if you have a few thousand pounds to spare. While tens of thousands slum it under canvas, a select few were today waking up in pop-up hotels and designer sheds.

It’s that time of the year again when for one weekend and one weekend only it’s cool to be seen wearing wellies, all thoughts of washing go out the window and around 85,000 music fans descend on Weston Park, writes Amy Burns. It can only be V Festival 2011.

Here’s the complete breakdown of the acts performing at Weston Park in Staffordshire for V Festival 2011.

The tickets whose temperatures send the mercury soaring are presently stuffed deep in the wallets and pockets of 85,000 fans from around the UK at V Festival, writes Wolverhampton Civic Hall’s Jonn Penney.

Miles of tailbacks snarled up major routes around Weston Park today as tens of thousands of music fans made their way to the V Festival.