In the old days it would have been “madam” – but now it’s more likely to be “babe (or round these parts ‘bab’)”, “love”, “duck” or “chick/chuck”, writes Louise Jew.

Tributes were paid to-day to a former England water polo star from the Midlands who has died at the age of 75.

A bouncer who dumped bin bags overflowing with rubbish in a South Staffordshire lane has been hit with a bill of more than £1,300.

Our am dram guru Alison Norton casts her expert eye over the shows that you should be looking out for this week – including the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast, Noel Coward’s This Happy Breed and a new play written by a member of Hagley Theatre Group.

An Express & Star reader is enjoying getting all his news via our new app. Warehouse worker Jamie Skelding, 31, had been missing his favourite paper but he now gets all the latest news via the app, which is available for iPad and iPhone users.

To anyone who might have spied me smoking a cigarette since New Year and thought “aha, we’ve caught her out”- I really am giving up, writes Louise Jew.

This is the first picture released of Black Country murder victim Jagjit Singh Villkhu.  

A man has been charged with the murder of a 33-year-old from the Black Country, whose battered body was found lying on park land.

Police have been granted more time to question a man in connection with the death of Jagjit Singh Villkhu, whose body was found on park land in Willenhall.

A man whose body was found on park land in Willenhall was today named by police as Jagjit Singh Villkhu.