Five parks in Wolverhampton will be protected from development forever under a move announced today as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Street lights will be dimmed or switched off overnight in Staffordshire under cost-cutting plans revealed today.

Dozens of dangerous cars are being sold illegally to unsuspecting drivers in the region as unscrupulous traders take advantage of private selling laws, it emerged today.

Councils in the West Midlands spent £34.6 million on agency staff in one year as they axed hundreds of jobs.

Middle management jobs at Wolverhampton City Council are under threat with a cull of senior staff set to continue, it was revealed today.

A former care home in a Wolverhampton suburb has cost taxpayers £134,000 in the four years that it has been sitting empty.

Two temporary directors who were costing taxpayers £800 a day to work at Wolverhampton City Council have had their contracts extended until March 2013, it was revealed today.

More than 30 jobs will be cut at Wolverhampton City Council next year with dozens more likely to follow, it was revealed today.

Jet-setting council staff in the Black Country clocked up tens of thousands of air miles on official business last year –with short-haul flights up more than 250 per cent on the previous year at one authority.

A Midland council will axe a day’s paid holiday given as a reward if staff do not call in sick, it was revealed today.