Politics Archive
Dudley Council could take over empty shops after meeting with minister
Birmingham businesses back controversial busker crackdown
'Don’t wash your hands of cuts in Dudley' - Council leaders urged to call for benefit reform rethink
Peter Rhodes on depressions, tinkering and improving the weather
'There is a real concern there will be fires' - Shropshire MP challenges Miliband about safety of battery farms
Councillor urges public to oppose ‘ludicrous’ tree felling plan across Willenhall
Opposition leader claims low morale causing thousands of sick days across Dudley
Buskers call for compromise amid PSPO plans for Birmingham city centre
Express & Star obtains secret report on 'stolen valour' councillor whose future will be considered tomorrow
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Walsall planning committee fallout continues as long-serving member quits
Stafford Councillor raises concerns about planning and enforcement case backlog
Council says that huge scheme to transform former Birmingham wholesale market site could leave £29 million cost
Proposals around busking crackdown in Birmingham city centre move closer to approval
Wolverhampton knife crime campaigner Pooja Kanda meets the King, Prime Minister and Idris Elba at summit
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Peter Rhodes on string, baked-bean tins and how a TV doctor is saving lives in the heatwaves
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A former West Midlands Mayor candidate who is accused of money laundering is to face trial in 2027
'Redundancy on the cheap': Union hits out as hospital trust staff in Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall and Sandwell 'invited to resign'
Wolverhampton Council to declare military service a 'protected characteristic'
'It’s ludicrous to chop down two perfectly healthy trees': Walsall Council urged to reconsider plans to fell 160 year-old trees worth £97,000
17 pictures capturing the remarkable rise and fall of John Stonehouse, Wednesbury and Walsall's most controversial politician
Timetable for completion of M54-M6 link road to be announced 'by next year'
Toby Neal on 900 years of common history, a mouche in the ointment and thermal shock in a heatwave
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Social homes are ‘changing lives’ for hundreds of West Midlands families, Mayor claims
Full list of Birmingham Labour councillors who are Unite members as union suspends memberships over bin strikes
Unite votes to suspend Angela Rayner’s membership over Birmingham bins dispute
MP claims businesses face being 'sleepwalked into disaster' with new Employment Rights Bill
Critical planning committee findings ‘cannot be brushed aside’, says former Walsall Council leader
Calls for iconic Black Sabbath pub next to Birmingham New Street station to reopen
'An accident waiting to happen': DX lorries blocking Willenhall roads cause safety concerns
South Staffordshire Council ends 2024/25 with £1m underspend
It's a turning point' says mayor Richard Parker as Government introduced devolution bill
Union accuses council of ‘abhorrent’ practices and calls for leader to quit
'Centre will not become an asylum hotel,' Dudley MP assures residents
'I doubt many members in this chamber have personal experience of the cruel welfare system. I do': What Stourbridge MP told Commons as she voted against Starmer's welfare plans
Senior councillor calls for review of Wolverhampton's taxi licensing in wake of national child-sex scandal
House to be converted into children's home, following approval by Walsall Council
Peter Rhodes on reforming the police, a bestseller under fire and a lesson from Dickens
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Temporary travellers sites in Birmingham delayed
New flats to be built on former Wolverhampton pub site in Heath Town amid £120m gateway to the city centre regeneration
Birmingham council at ‘absolute limit’ of pay dispute offer
Alcohol crime down by 10 per cent, says West Mercia's police commissioner
'We've been here five minutes and lots of cars have come in with illegal plates' - West Bromwich MP joins police on operation
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