A motorcyclist has died after a horror crash in Staffordshire – in the third accident on the same road in just over a week.

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.

As the clock counts down towards the start of the V Festival at Weston Park, Dawn Woodhouse, the festival’s co-ordinator talks to us about her perfect weekend and what goes on in the busy run-up to the epic annual two-day music event.

Plans to build 10 homes in the orchard of a historic house in Staffordshire have been thrown out by council chiefs.

So it’s the first week of June – surely this is the official start of the summer right!? Here’s hoping for at least a couple of months of fun and frolics in the Black Country and West Midlands sunshine!

Campaigners fighting plans to build six giant wind turbines in South Staffordshire are aiming to raise £20,000 to hire professional experts to back their cause.

Hotel bosses in Wolverhampton have started the summer on a high note as hundreds of rooms across the city have already been snapped up ahead of this year’s V Festival which kicks off later this month.

V Festival 2010 is just over a month away. With acts including Kings of Leon, Kasabian and Pet Shop Boys to look forward to at Weston  Park, Staffordshire, on August 21 and 22, join us as we look back at our favourite Express & Star V Festival photos from the past few years.