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University of Wolverhampton pulls out of deal to buy Beatties over renovation costs

University of Wolverhampton pulls out of deal to buy Beatties over renovation costs

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 9 hours ago

Man attempts to abduct girl, 11, in Wolverhampton street

Man attempts to abduct girl, 11, in Wolverhampton street

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 4 hours ago

Wednesbury school on lockdown after man spotted on roof

Wednesbury school on lockdown after man spotted on roof

Wednesbury | Last updated: 2 hours ago

BMW rammed off the road in Wolverhampton road rage incident

BMW rammed off the road in Wolverhampton road rage incident

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 4 hours ago

Arson attack on four vehicles parked in West Bromwich

Arson attack on four vehicles parked in West Bromwich

West Bromwich | Last updated: 5 hours ago

One jailed but seven escape after failed gold bullion raid in Wolverhampton

One jailed but seven escape after failed gold bullion raid in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 12 hours ago

Conservative Party posts ‘misleading’ video of Labour’s Jess Phillips

Conservative Party posts ‘misleading’ video of Labour’s Jess Phillips

Birmingham | Last updated: 4 hours ago

Great-grandfather 'left without food and water' before hospital death

Great-grandfather 'left without food and water' before hospital death

Walsall | Last updated: 14 hours ago

Woman critically injured as dog killed in Bloxwich house fire

Woman critically injured as dog killed in Bloxwich house fire

Bloxwich | Last updated: 11 hours ago

Cash stolen during raid at Dudley pharmacy

Cash stolen during raid at Dudley pharmacy

Dudley | Last updated: 5 hours ago

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Feed a Family This Christmas: How you can help Black Country and Staffordshire families

The Express & Star today launches its Feed a Family This Christmas appeal for the fourth year running - and it’s been given the seal of approval by the Prime Minister.

News | Last updated: Nov 18, 2019

Woman critically injured as dog killed in Bloxwich house fire

Woman critically injured as dog killed in Bloxwich house fire

Bloxwich | Last updated: 11 hours ago

Cash stolen during raid at Dudley pharmacy

Cash stolen during raid at Dudley pharmacy

Dudley | Last updated: 5 hours ago

Warning over fly-tipping 'epidemic' as 111 cases a week reported in Sandwell

Warning over fly-tipping 'epidemic' as 111 cases a week reported in Sandwell

Sandwell | Last updated: 7 hours ago

Dudley sergeant resigns over racist and homophobic WhatsApp messages

Dudley sergeant resigns over racist and homophobic WhatsApp messages

Dudley | Last updated: 2 hours ago

Smethwick butcher gets £6,800 court bill over food hygiene offences

Smethwick butcher gets £6,800 court bill over food hygiene offences

Smethwick | Last updated: 10 hours ago

£15 million Stafford road scheme reaches next milestone

£15 million Stafford road scheme reaches next milestone

Stafford | Last updated: 11 hours ago

Lenny Henry returns to Dudley for big homecoming show

Lenny Henry returns to Dudley for big homecoming show

Dudley | Last updated: 11 hours ago

Help Feed a Family, urges Love Island star Dani

Help Feed a Family, urges Love Island star Dani

Wolverhampton entertainment | Last updated: 10 hours ago

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Dudley schools spend £4 million on agency workers in one year

Dudley schools spend £4 million on agency workers in one year

Dudley | Last updated: 14 hours ago

Vets in plea to make Arthur’s Christmas

Vets in plea to make Arthur’s Christmas

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 11 hours ago

Star Witness celebrates our beautiful region - in pictures

Star Witness celebrates our beautiful region - in pictures

Entertainment | Last updated: 10 hours ago

Steel structures to be demolished at Rugeley Power Station next week

Steel structures to be demolished at Rugeley Power Station next week

Rugeley | Last updated: 14 hours ago

Driver jailed for 'carjacking' lie after two seriously injured in crash

Driver jailed for 'carjacking' lie after two seriously injured in crash

Birmingham | Last updated: 9 hours ago

Dishonest Dudley restaurant owner lands £1,400 court bill

Dishonest Dudley restaurant owner lands £1,400 court bill

Dudley | Last updated: 9 hours ago

Evening car parking charges to be introduced in Stafford from January

Evening car parking charges to be introduced in Stafford from January

Stafford | Last updated: 6 hours ago

Comment: Underestimate the master of opportunism at your peril

Comment: Underestimate the master of opportunism at your peril

General Election 2019 | Last updated: 11 hours ago

Severn Trent sees profits stumble

Severn Trent sees profits stumble

Business | Last updated: 7 hours ago

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Crime

Man attempts to abduct girl, 11, in Wolverhampton street

Man attempts to abduct girl, 11, in Wolverhampton street

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 4 hours ago

Wednesbury school on lockdown after man spotted on roof

Wednesbury | Last updated: 2 hours ago

BMW rammed off the road in Wolverhampton road rage incident

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 4 hours ago

Business

University of Wolverhampton pulls out of deal to buy Beatties over renovation costs

University of Wolverhampton pulls out of deal to buy Beatties over renovation costs

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 9 hours ago

Severn Trent sees profits stumble

Business | Last updated: 7 hours ago

Express & Star comment: Tata Steel jobs woes reflect economic uncertainty

Opinions | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

Education

Dudley schools spend £4 million on agency workers in one year

Dudley schools spend £4 million on agency workers in one year

Dudley | Last updated: 14 hours ago

Walsall school holds 'parliament day'

Walsall | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

School to install leisure dome for all year round sport

Rugeley | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

Feed a Family campaign

Feed a Family This Christmas: How you can help Black Country and Staffordshire families

The Express & Star today launches its Feed a Family This Christmas appeal for the fourth year running - and it’s been given the seal of approval by the Prime Minister.

News | Last updated: Nov 18, 2019

Motors

Speed awareness courses cut repeat offending, says research

Speed awareness courses cut repeat offending, says research

Motors | Last updated: 5 hours ago

More than 630,000 untaxed cars on UK roads, government estimates

Motors | Last updated: 6 hours ago

New Taycan 4S joins Porsche line-up

Motors | Last updated: 7 hours ago

Property

Legal ‘flaw’ over travellers’ site parking at Wolverhampton Science Park

Legal ‘flaw’ over travellers’ site parking at Wolverhampton Science Park

Wolverhampton | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

Appeal lodged after plans refused for former Kenrick House offices

West Bromwich | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

Hometown developer behind purchase of Cannock sports ground

Cannock Chase | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

Health

New hospital medical centre will be crucial, says health boss

New hospital medical centre will be crucial, says health boss

Sandwell | Last updated: 14 hours ago

Elderly care and freeing up beds key to easing NHS crisis, says health boss

Sandwell | Last updated: 9 hours ago

Shropshire maternity scandal: Babies and mothers died amid ‘toxic’ culture at NHS trust

Health | Last updated: Nov 19, 2019

Latest videos

WATCH: Dominic Raab's election pitch scuppered by barking dog in Wolverhampton

WATCH: Dominic Raab's election pitch scuppered by barking dog in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

Car hits high-rise flats after Stafford Street crash in Wolverhampton

Car hits high-rise flats after Stafford Street crash in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton | Last updated: Nov 19, 2019

West Midlands' first female firefighter retiring after 30 years

West Midlands' first female firefighter retiring after 30 years

Bloxwich | Last updated: Nov 19, 2019

WATCH: Sikhs celebrate Guru Nanak's 550th birthday with Sandwell parade

WATCH: Sikhs celebrate Guru Nanak's 550th birthday with Sandwell parade

Sandwell | Last updated: Nov 19, 2019

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Letters

Brexit LETTERS: Impartiality, manners and making voices heard

Read the latest selection of readers' letters on Brexit.

Readers' letters | Last updated: Oct 10, 2019

Opinions

Foolish to underestimate Farage – the master of opportunism

Foolish to underestimate Farage – the master of opportunism

General Election 2019 | Last updated: 9 hours ago

Comment: Underestimate the master of opportunism at your peril

Comment: Underestimate the master of opportunism at your peril

General Election 2019 | Last updated: 11 hours ago

Peter Rhodes on wise owls, curious computers and a muddy re-run of The Italian Job

Peter Rhodes on wise owls, curious computers and a muddy re-run of The Italian Job

Peter Rhodes | Last updated: 14 hours ago

Express & Star comment: City in limbo as Beatties deal collapses

Express & Star comment: City in limbo as Beatties deal collapses

Wolverhampton | Last updated: 10 hours ago

Express & Star comment: Tata Steel jobs woes reflect economic uncertainty

Express & Star comment: Tata Steel jobs woes reflect economic uncertainty

Opinions | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

COMMENT: Aimless jousting during Johnson v Corbyn Leaders' Debate

COMMENT: Aimless jousting during Johnson v Corbyn Leaders' Debate

Opinions | Last updated: Nov 20, 2019

Readers' letters

LETTER: Requirements that need to be met if MPs want my vote

LETTER: Requirements that need to be met if MPs want my vote

Readers' letters | Last updated: 10 hours ago

LETTER: Stop letting off fireworks, it's not even Bonfire Night

LETTER: Stop letting off fireworks, it's not even Bonfire Night

Dudley | Last updated: Nov 14, 2019

Family occasions are sadly a rare occurrence today

Family occasions are sadly a rare occurrence today

Readers' letters | Last updated: Oct 26, 2019

LETTER: Praise for Perton Library history event

LETTER: Praise for Perton Library history event

South Staffordshire | Last updated: Oct 23, 2019

LETTER: Loneliness is truly terrible to endure

LETTER: Loneliness is truly terrible to endure

Readers' letters | Last updated: Oct 11, 2019

Brexit LETTERS: Impartiality, manners and making voices heard

Brexit LETTERS: Impartiality, manners and making voices heard

Readers' letters | Last updated: Oct 10, 2019

UK News

Duchess of Cambridge pulls out of awards event ‘due to the children’

Duchess of Cambridge pulls out of awards event ‘due to the children’

UK News | Last updated: Less than an hour ago

County Durham coal miner’s daughter takes centre stage in impeachment hearings

County Durham coal miner’s daughter takes centre stage in impeachment hearings

UK News | Last updated: Less than an hour ago

More groups cut ties with Duke of York

More groups cut ties with Duke of York

UK News | Last updated: Less than an hour ago

Extinction Rebellion co-founder sorry for ‘crass words’ about Holocaust

Extinction Rebellion co-founder sorry for ‘crass words’ about Holocaust

UK News | Last updated: Less than an hour ago

China releases footage of ex-British Consulate worker ‘soliciting prostitution’

China releases footage of ex-British Consulate worker ‘soliciting prostitution’

UK News | Last updated: 1 hour ago

Foreign Secretary confirms British orphans in Syria to return to UK

Foreign Secretary confirms British orphans in Syria to return to UK

UK News | Last updated: 1 hour ago

Led By Donkeys offers to sell thebrexitparty.com to Nigel Farage for £1m

Led By Donkeys offers to sell thebrexitparty.com to Nigel Farage for £1m

UK News | Last updated: 1 hour ago

Campaign highlights: Corbyn reaches for the stars at Labour manifesto launch

Campaign highlights: Corbyn reaches for the stars at Labour manifesto launch

UK News | Last updated: 2 hours ago

World News

Ukraine probes pursued at direction of Donald Trump, impeachment inquiry told

Ukraine probes pursued at direction of Donald Trump, impeachment inquiry told

World News | Last updated: 3 hours ago

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu charged with fraud and bribery

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu charged with fraud and bribery

World News | Last updated: 2 hours ago

Serbian minister urged to quit amid claims PhD was plagiarised

Serbian minister urged to quit amid claims PhD was plagiarised

World News | Last updated: 3 hours ago

Greenpeace activists spell out climate message on Angela Merkel’s office

Greenpeace activists spell out climate message on Angela Merkel’s office

World News | Last updated: 4 hours ago

Israeli PM awaits decision on corruption charges

Israeli PM awaits decision on corruption charges

World News | Last updated: 4 hours ago

Donald Trump ‘overheard questioning if Ukraine would investigate Biden’

Donald Trump ‘overheard questioning if Ukraine would investigate Biden’

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Ukraine election interference claims fictional, impeachment probe told

Ukraine election interference claims fictional, impeachment probe told

World News | Last updated: 6 hours ago

Pope urges action to help women and children ‘humiliated’ by traffickers

Pope urges action to help women and children ‘humiliated’ by traffickers

World News | Last updated: 6 hours ago

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