Lisa O'Brien
Chief Reporter
Chief reporter at the Express & Star
Take a sneak peek at Black Country Living Museum's new industrial quarter set to open this week
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Almost £10 million to help tackle city's pothole-plagued roads and improve highways over next year
Community orchards and micro woods to be created across Walsall thanks to government grants
Final public consultation on £3.3 million transformation of town's High Street will launch next week
Black Country and Staffordshire branch of RSPCA unveils cattery expansion plans due to 'massive' rise in demand
Issue with 'subsidence on road' closes Wombourne tip for foreseeable future
Dramatic first-look footage brings every twist and turn of Alton Towers’ revamped rollercoaster to life ahead of opening
Wolverhampton team wins gold award in contest dubbed 'the Olympics of wound care'
Macmillan support worker urges people to 'listen to their bodies' if something doesn’t feel right after ovarian cancer diagnosis
More than £200,000 could be spent on revamping Stourbridge town centre, improving footpaths and new cycle route
Residents face 10 mile trip to nearest tip after recycling centre shuts due to 'unforeseen circumstances'
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Planned refurb for Aldi will lead to it becoming 'larger and brighter with new layout'
West Midlands ranked fifth in league of litter-related incidents injuring and killing animals
Dudley teachers taking on marathon together for two good causes
Jury retires to begin deliberating in trial of three men accused of killing footballer Cody Fisher
Walsall golf club's tee-riffic fundraising drive raises over £15,000 for Black Country hospice
Historic puppet collection to take centre stage in new history centre
Firm and director to pay thousands after worker crushed to death by granite slabs
Land dispute over university campus plans on Dudley Hippodrome site set to be settled at public inquiry
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Junior football club running for nearly four decades is looking for new site to expand
Murdering rapist who stamped Wolverhampton father to death handed extra jail time after 'error'
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Three Black Country fish and chip shops are up for sale – one 'famous for their battered chips'
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New £750 'cost of living' scholarships to help students afford the basics
Walsall midwife to give evidence to parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma
Gladiator, Ready! Jodie 'Fury' Ounsley joins Wolverhampton pupils for a game of football
Dedicated Black Country podiatrist putting his feet up after 45 year career in the NHS
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Pictures show why health inspectors took action to close Walsall food store after finding mouse droppings
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Energy Secretary takes tour of Dudley waste plant which can help raise income for council
Daughter of cancer patient embarks on £5,000 fundraiser for Macmillan
Wolverhampton students first to experience new adventure playbarn attraction due to open next week
Man pleads guilty to sending malicious and 'threatening' emails to Walsall MP
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Police issue 10 penalty notices for 'dangerous parking' around schools in Netherton
West Midlands Police appoints football investigation officer to tackle hate crime against women and girls
Ambulance involved in crash while responding to 999 call in Woodsetton
Woman to appear in court accused of stealing hundreds of pounds of items from beauty store
Jailed: Walsall man who discussed sexually abusing children as young as six with convicted female paedophile
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Watch: Saucy TV advert sparks massive business boom for Staffordshire takeaway firm
Fundraiser for 10-year-old Shay Kang surpasses target as trek and memorial planned in her memory
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Fire chiefs respond to study finding service has sixth slowest firefighter response time in the UK
Doctor Who fans from across the world to descend on Great Barr for weekend of sci-fi fun
Staff at four Dudley schools delighted by national award
Prolific litterer ordered to pay more than £2k after being caught on CCTV in Walsall
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