Wolverhampton news, page 2


Learning about life at Bilston market

Express & Star feature writer Cathy Spencer spent three days working at Bilston market seeing just how tough life on the markets is.


Fire destroys house within minutes

A pensioner and her son were taken to hospital after escaping from a severe fire that destroyed their South Staffordshire home.


No pub ban for West Brom fans

There will be no blanket ban on West Brom fans in Wolverhampton city centre pubs for Sunday’s big Premier League derby, police said today.


British title fight coming to the Civic

Wolverhampton Civic Hall will stage it’s first British title fight in nearly four years next month when Enzo Maccarinelli challenges Shane McPhilbin.


Conman is told to fork out £500,000

The lavish lifestyle of a Wolverhampton criminal at the centre of a money laundering scam was at an end today after a judge ordered him to sell his assets and fork out £500,000 or face four years in prison.


Wolverhampton college students show dance skills

Dance students from the City of Wolverhampton College are stepping in to the spotlight for their annual showcase.


Blaze breaks out at former bowling alley

The Fitness First gym  in Wolverhampton was closed today for emergency repairs after a blaze broke out at the former AMF Bowling alley upstairs.


Man, 85, hit by car dies in hospital

A pensioner has died after being hit by a car in Wolverhampton during rush hour.


Massaro murder accused is a convicted burglar

A man accused of battering and stabbing an elderly couple to death is a convicted burglar who had started taking crack cocaine days before the double murder, a jury heard.


The rise of the meat megamarket

Gary Walker opened his Town and Country Meat Megastore in the Black Country just last week – and welcomed more than 3,700 customers in his first two days.

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