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Prisoners celebrating their early release

Mark Andrews: Solve jail crisis and boat crossings in one fell swoop Mark Andrews

The Tamworth Tap has won the award three times and is in contention for a record-breaking fourth award

Staffordshire pub 'honoured' to be in contention for national award

The Polar Express Train Ride

Polar Express train ride comes to Birmingham

Emma and Heber Rodriguez are the owners of The Happy Quail in Newport

Newport restaurant owners share 'excitement' ahead of opening

The event promises good music and festive treats. Photo: WV1FEST

Fans urged to get tickets for massive Wolverhampton music festival

The new Peaky Blinders tour at Black Country Living Museum.
Reporter Emma Hynes sits next to the gates used in the Peaky Blinders series.
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I visit real-life Peaky Blinders sets at Black Country Living Museum

The Black Country Arms in Walsall is one of the pubs on the trail

Real ale lovers invited to take on new trail across West Midlands

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Croquet on the lawn at Attingham Park

7 stunning National Trust sites perfect for a day out this autumn

There are plenty of Indian restaurants and takeaways in Northumberland with very good reviews. Picture from Pixabay.

Top 10 Indian restaurants in the Walsall area according to Tripadvisor

The Spring Road cafe is set to close for nearly a week to allow for the makeover. Photo: Google Street Map

New look coming for Wolverhampton Costa as store closes for makeover

A fireworks display. PIC: Richard Ponter

Spectacular West Midlands firework displays worth seeing

The Full Monty Burger is one of many new additions to the menu. Photo: Davenports

Staffordshire pub aims to keep delivering for customers with new menu

Dan Stacey has a look around White Ladies Priory, which many people say is haunted

Plus Shropshire priory ruins that sheltered a king – and may hide a ghost

Crime

Shrewsbury Crown Court GV.

Plus Man admits dangerous driving and injuring child near Bridgnorth

Officers found cocaine, cash and a mobile phone after stopping a car

Man arrested in Rugeley after officers find cocaine, cash and mobile

Ayden Cooper was described as having 'had a heart of gold'. Photo: West Midlands Police

'A heart of gold': Emotional tributes to West Mids stabbing victim

John Scott representing the Express & Star in Afghanistan

Express & Star writer who met the stars and travelled the world

Police arrested a man on suspicion of criminal damage

Man arrested in Wednesbury after criminal damage locks down school

Business

10 lowest-rated banks in the West Midlands based on Google Reviews

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held as TravelCoop officially opened its new Kidderminster branch

TravelCoop celebrates opening of new Kidderminster branch

staff from mfg Solicitors

mfg Solicitors celebrates record number of Legal 500 rankings

Co-founders of Recyclus Robin Bundle (left) and Alex Stanbury

Recyclus secures largest contract to date with global automotive firm

Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Ice Arena will be converting into a rollerskating rink for the summer

'Let's roll' - Opening date for new roller rink in West Midlands town

The switchboard equipment which fell on the victim.

Telford firm fined £4m over devastating injuries to dad of one

Politics

Birmingham Council House

Bin boss insists no final decision made on fortnightly collections

The burned-out remains of The Crooked House in August 2023

Fury as 'Crooked House' pub laws are talked out by Labour MPs

By-election battle after resignation of West Midlands councillor

David Gardner

Staffordshire Police announces new chief constable

Education

Making friends and learning together at the Nest

West Midlands school opens new nursery for two-year-olds

Dudley Council's cabinet approved a big increase in SEND spending.

Council's SEND spending set to almost double as new hub agreed

21 adorable first-day-of-school photos from Black Country and Staffs

James Watt Primary School in Handsworth

Fire doors at school to be replaced after 'not meeting regulations'

Springdale Primary School celebrate Ofsted Result

Wolverhampton primary school celebrates Ofsted praise as result rise

Celebrating their Ofsted success are D’Eyncourt Primary School pupils with, left, Headteacher Danielle Darby and, right, Councillor Jacqui Coogan, Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Education

'Highly inclusive' primary school celebrates Ofsted success

Property

Site In Armitage Road, Rugeley

Industrial building could be pulled down to make way for care home

South Staffordshire District Council In Codsall

Council leader urges Gov. to review national planning policy change

Andrew Dunham (McPhillips Director), Nell Lloyd (Virtus Project Manager), and Councillor Qaiser Azeem (Cabinet Member for Resident Services) break ground for the construction works at the Hickman Avenue site

Construction work starts on new Wolverhampton fleet services facility

209 Grange Road

Inside 'fixer-upper' two-bedroom home in Birmingham up for auction

Health

Sandwell Couch Potatoes climb Snowdon to help raise money for a sailing voyage which will help people recovering from psychosis

Sandwell group tackle Snowdon to raise funds for psychosis recovery

Lou Pickering, Community Service Manager for BSMHFT’s dementia and frailty services (Centre) at the official launch of Memory Matters.

NHS bosses would ‘love’ to see pilot dementia project extended

Bridgnorth Community Hospital

Hospital's concern over Bridgnorth GP surgery patients using car park

High Street, Bridgnorth

Plus Wolverhampton man in court over theft of chocolates from Bridgnorth

Russells Hall Hospital’s Stroke Unit staff receiving their accreditation from the National Gold Standards Framework (GSF)

Every medical ward at Dudley hospital accredited for end-of-life care

Royal Stoke University Hospital Main Building

Urgent and emergency care performance 'worsened' at hospital

Environment

Birmingham councillor Harris Khaliq, cabinet member for city operations and digital.

Update issued on key Birmingham waste service as huge changes proposed

Harris Khaliq

Fortnightly bin collections for household waste proposed for Brum

Sandwell Council House

Reform to axe climate emergency declaration in Sandwell

Fresh images of the new Smithgate Bicycle Works development in Wolverhampton.
Tim Thursfield/Iconic Media Group

Fresh images of the Smithgate Bike Works building project in market

Dead fish have been spotted floating in the canals in Walsall

Plus Court appearance for company accused of Walsall Canal spillage

The team at S C Painting and Decorating Services sent us this from Tettenhall

Northern Lights dazzle West Midlands and Shropshire residents

Latest UK News

Soldiers at Sennybridge Training Area Main Camp, Brecon, where Exercise Cambrian Patrol, the British Army’s premier international military patrolling event is taking place, with over 1,000 troops from the UK and overseas taking part

British troops to take part in major Ukraine-facing wargame next month

“Glamour Gran” Ann Marie Harper

‘Glamour Gran’, 71, falls just short at Miss Great Britain beauty pageant

Andy Burnham gesturing as he delivers a speech

PM offers Scotland more powers in bid to move past ‘old politics of conflict’

Jason Kamal

Men who stole £12,000 worth of Ann Summers’ products ‘not mastermind criminals’

Russell Brand was ‘wild-eyed maniac’ who tried to drag TV worker into toilet

Former FCDO boss Sir Olly Robbins

Government settles out of court after challenge by sacked Foreign Office chief

World News

A woman places flowers at a makeshift memorial

Teenage gunman who killed four at Oregon school was former student, police say

Katie Zacharia speaks to reporters

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is leaving the job after rocky start

A helicopter from Brazil’s environmental agency flies over an area of the Amazon rainforest

Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level since 1988, Brazil says

Iguazu Falls

El Nino rains flood South America, sending residents fleeing and cattle swimming

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