The week in pictures
A selection of snapshots taken from the Express & Star across the last week.
This double decker bus underwent a messy conversion into a single-decker bus after the driver attempted to pass beneath a low bridge near Wolverhampton.nextpage
The roof of the bus lay on the road just beneath the bridge. nextpage
A blaze ripped through a workshop roof at Stafford College forcing part of the town centre to be sealed off. Fire crews had to be decontaminated as they came off the frontline because of asbestos sheeting at the scene of the fire. nextpage
One of Wolverhampton's greatest historical landmarks, the Royal Hospital, has just embarked upon a £50m restoration project. The dilapidated hospital has been left derelict for decades, but will now be converted into homes, shops and offices.
A former Wolverhampton newsagents that was set to be transformed into apartments has been destroyed by arsonists .nextpage
Stunned residents watched the now derelict shop in Warwick Street, Horseley Fields, next to the Oxford Street car park off Bilston Road, go up in flames.nextpage
Rescuers dragged an 87-year-old man to safety after smashing their way into his house as it was gutted by flames.
