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VE Day brought first ever tot of naval-issue rum for Shropshire Wrens

If the things they got up to at one Shropshire military base were anything to go by, VE Day saw one heck of a party - and a headache for those charged with keeping discipline.

Jim Stowe in the 1940s

'The moment a Nazi U-boat met us to surrender' - vivid VE Day memories from veterans in the West Midlands and Shropshire

Nostalgia|May 6

How the West Midlands remembered VE Day - poignant interviews from the files of Peter Rhodes

Nostalgia|May 5

Baker Ruth Redgate, owner of Hunnypot Cottage Bakery

'I started my artisan bakery business in Staffordshire after my children bought me a bread making course'

Food and Drink|May 4

'Time will tell if I did the right thing' - Shropshire author took a sometimes rocky road to achieve his mill home dream

Celebrating independent traders: Cannock bridal boutique is the perfect fit

Features|Apr 27

A rail crash at Bushbury, Wolverhampton, which happened on the evening of Saturday, October 22, 1960

'Stop the Wolverhampton express!' - How quick thinking spared Wolverhampton from a major rail disaster

Features|Apr 25

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'I haven't regretted it for one second,' says new chief of troubled fire service after 100 days in post

Features|Apr 14

An outdoor cinema was created at RAF Cosford in Aug 2021

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"I'm sure it will be emotional" - Olympic ice skaters Torvill and Dean coming to Birmingham for farewell tour

For his dedicated service and good works, Shropshire rural bobby Bill Williams got a gentle pat on the back from officialdom. For Alan Scriven, a Wolverhampton lad from an impoverished background whose life Bill transformed, it was a meagre reward.

Features|Apr 11

Hero to zero - John Towers' was hailed the saviour of MG Rover when he took over in 2000

Longbridge 20 years on - end of the road for Britain's biggest car plant MG Rover

Empty seats. Rows and rows of them. It wasn't the best start to Dudley Pageant back in 1951. The weather was bad - but even so.

B D Price toys and cycles in Sedgley is closing after 160 years, as owner Dan Price plans to retire

Famous Dudley toy and bike shop to close after 160 years

We went on a 'pothole safari' around the Black Country - I lost count how many I saw on one street

The A442 from Telford to Bridgnorth

'Sort out the potholes!' Ravaged roads of the West Midlands in disrepair as RAC reveals huge cost to motorists

Politics|Mar 31

(left to right) Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar

Nottingham attack survivor says she wishes killer ‘had taken me instead’

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Rightmove sees customer and revenue growth as UK housing market improves

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UK must seek to ‘rebuild’ trade relationship with EU, says Bank governor

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Ratify ocean treaty and ban destructive fishing in protected areas, PM urged

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Eurostar trains on the platform at St Pancras International station, London

Direct trains from UK to Switzerland move step closer

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Cabinet meeting

‘Trade deal needed urgently to save 150,000 livelihoods’ senior minister says

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Kevin Beresford has devoted 12 months entirely to the industrial action blighting his home city for his calendar called "Rats The Size of Cats".

Britain's 'dullest man' selling merchandise dedicated to the Birmingham bin strikes

Birmingham|May 7

The Royal Mint VE Day commemorative 50p coin

Coins to mark 80 years since VE Day launched by Royal Mint

Viral news|Apr 30

Stephen Lappin smiling while holding a defibrillator

Runner who had cardiac arrest at race to compete in same event a year later

Viral news|Apr 24

Did The Simpsons predict Birmingham bin strikes? Social media users believe so

Birmingham|Apr 12

Blues and Villa fans spotted at WWE

Aston Villa and Birmingham City fans spotted at WWE 'every week' - leaving fans flabbergasted

Aston Villa|Mar 26

CCTV shows Shane O'Malley and an accomplice raiding Hansons Auctioneers building in Derbyshire

BBC Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson's auction house targeted by hammer-wielding ram-raid crook in £21,000 raid

A Powelliphanta augusta snail lays an egg from its neck

Rare snail filmed for the first time laying an egg from its neck

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Military troops stand in formation in Red Square

Russia’s Victory Day parade marks 80th anniversary of defeat of Nazi Germany

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The new Pope waves at the Vatican

Pope Leo XIV to celebrate first Mass after election as Francis’s successor

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Man stands in the window of a scorched building

Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire overnight

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A family waits for transportation as they leave following overnight shelling from Pakistan at Gingal village in Uri district, Indian controlled Kashmir

Pakistan denies Indian accusations of attacks on military bases

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North Korea says Kim Jong Un supervised missile tests

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