These CCTV images show the moments three masked men looking to swipe cigarettes from a supermarket were forced to flee empty-handed – because the loot they were targeting was already locked away.

Thieves are repeatedly stripping sandstone slabs from a historic wall – totalling a length of more than 60 metres and worth an estimated £10,000, over the last year.

Car boot sales in Staffordshire are being run like “industrial market places”, with some operators exploiting a loophole in the law to double the number of events held at each site, it emerged today.

It was once the place where bobbies could relax with a pint after a long day on the beat, but the last remaining police social club in Staffordshire has now closed.

A serial criminal, who sped through a string of red lights at up to 60mph while being pursued by police through the Black Country, has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Why were there no female finalists in this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year competition, asks Louise Jew?

A running coach and sports-mad college student have been selected to carry the Olympic torch during next year’s games.

Police are hunting a man who is on the run after absconding from an open prison.

Children at a school in South Staffordshire were helped to celebrate getting new play equipment by a hat -rick of Wolves goalkeepers.

A D-Day hero known to thousands of Black Country scouts who attended the camp he used to run died on Remembrance Day – wearing a poppy that nurses pinned to his hospital gown.