Plans for up to 300 homes on the site of a historic former sugar factory in Kidderminster are to be submitted within days, it has been revealed.

A crack team is expected to be set up within days to tackle flooding, including repeated problems with the River Severn bursting its banks in Bewdley.

A landmark appeal which will decide how much Wyre Forest District Council will get back from millions of pounds invested in Icelandic banks was starting today.

This is the first glimpse of how an £18 million hotel and water park scheme could look under plans proposed at West Midland Safari Park which have been revealed today.

Local authorities across the West Midlands and Staffordshire have shelled out £250,000 over five years to help high-earning recruits move into their new homes, figures have revealed today.

A total of 800 jobs are to be axed by Dudley Council over the next three years in the latest round of cuts to hit the Black Country.

Weddings are to be held at Kidderminster Town Hall for the first time to raise cash towards the upkeep of the historic building.

Thousands of homes have been sent wrong information about new refuse collections for Wyre Forest – meaning “costly” new leaflets are needed to correct the mistake.

Charges are to be cut on a busy Kidderminster car park to stop long-term problems with commuters’ vehicles clogging narrow town streets, it has been announced.

A council leader today defended the huge salary hikes enjoyed by chief executives in the West Midlands.