A special group has been set up to help protect businesses in Willenhall after a spate of raids and attacks that have caused thousands of pounds of damage.

Control of Walsall Council was in limbo today after Labour became the largest party on the authority – but failed to win overall control.

A man who staged smash-and-grab raids on two newsagents shortly after being freed from a prison sentence imposed for a similar offence was today again behind bars.

Motorists in a South Staffordshire village will face four weeks of roadworks at a busy crossroads as £75,000 of vital repair works are carried out.

More than 800 of litres of diesel was siphoned from a haulage firm in the fourth raid at the business in just six months.

Almost 160 horses have been rounded up from the streets of Dudley since a pilot project run by police began a year ago.

A woman who was killed in a car smash near Wolverhampton was today named as 24-year-old Jekaterina Ruluka.

Two people were killed and three others injured in a number of crashes on roads across the West Midlands. A man and woman died instantly when their powerful silver Mercedes hurtled off the road  on the approach to the Keyway island, near Willenhall.

Almost £5,000 worth of fake goods have been seized from council-run markets across Walsall in the last six months, enforcement bosses have revealed.

Twin boys and their eight-year-old friend found two rifles and a bullet buried in the towpath of a canal in the Black Country.