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Urgent call to Staffordshire residents to help protect pollinators and local biodiversity

South Staffordshire’s beekeepers are urging residents to participate in the “No Mow May” initiative to help protect local biodiversity and prevent a serious decline in pollinators.

Your World|20 hours ago

Beekeepers take care of honeybee colonies at South Staffordshire & District Beekeepers Association's Shugborough Hall teaching apiary,

The land has been leased to the charity since 2011.

Popular community garden set to bloom for years to come

Your World|20 hours ago

The Mickey Mouse toy that made its way through the sewers and was found by Severn Trent.

Mickey Mouse made a splash in the Severn Trent sewers, but thankfully didn’t cause a huge blockage

Your World|May 7

Councillor Bhupinder Gakhal, cabinet member for resident services at Wolverhampton Council, with the crushed van.

Wolverhampton fly tipper's van seized and crushed by the council after local filmed them dumping waste

Lickey Hills Country Park. Taken from Google Street View.

Divisive Birmingham Country Park charging proposal set to proceed despite huge opposition

Environment|May 6

Work to build the new Household Waste Recycling Centre and Waste Transfer Station, Middlemore Lane, Aldridge is beginning to take shape.

Walsall Council unveils new 'odour control system' for £32M Aldridge waste recycling centre

Plenty of people relaxed by the cathedral pool

Warm weather ahead as sunshine and moderate temperatures predicted for the West Midlands

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Full list of proposed parking charges for three West Midlands beauty spots

Environment|May 5

One of the worst three roads in Walsall for flytipping reports, other two are Milton Street, Palfrey and Bloxwich Road, Birchills Leamore
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Five Walsall wards make up half of all flytipping reports

Environment|May 3

Essington farm invites the public to take a walk through stunning bluebell walk for charity

Peter Rhodes on apologies, imperial guilt and a lesson in rounding-up penguins

Peter Rhodes|May 2

Rare dragonfly at Vistry's Park Gate development in Kidderminster

Green Kidderminster housing development receives Building with Nature accreditation

Your World|May 1

Businesses across West Midlands feeling benefit of sunny weather as greater numbers come through doors

Stafford MP Leigh Ingham, during PMQs on January 22, 2025. Screen grab from parliamentlive.tv

Recycling old tyres will help reduce fly tipping, says Stafford MP

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Dudley fields whg Walsall Council WMCA

160 Bloxwich homes to receive free energy upgrade to become one of Britain’s first net-zero carbon-ready neighbourhoods

Environment|May 1

'It's like a phoenix rising!' Goscote Greenacres returns with annual bank holiday plant sale

Luke Hufton

Severn Trent worker reveals grossest day in job - tackling fatbergs

Your World|Apr 30

(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 app

Rightmove sees customer and revenue growth as UK housing market improves

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Bank of England monetary policy report

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

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Aerial view of ocean surf on beach

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

UK News|1 hour ago

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

World News|Just now

Military troops stand in formation in Red Square

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

World News|1 hour ago

The new Pope waves at the Vatican

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

World News|1 hour ago

Man stands in the window of a scorched building

Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire overnight

World News|2 hours ago

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

World News|3 hours ago

Photo provided by the North Korean government showing what it says a drill of long-range artillery and missile systems at North Korea’s eastern coast

North Korea says Kim Jong Un supervised missile tests

World News|6 hours ago