'Paying for his crimes with yet more jail' and a 'laissez-faire attitude towards security' - The week's news in five quotes
The Express & Star takes a look back over the past seven days to sum up some of the week's top stories in soundbites.
"Well done to everyone today. A sad start to the day but incredibly proud with how everyone conducted themselves."
This was the response of Robin Grover, headteacher of ACE Academy in Tipton, after his school was one of among fourteen targeted in a hoax bomb threat.
West Midlands Police visited all school sites, and declared them all safe.
"Carl is paying for his crimes once again with yet more jail.
West Midlands Police responded to notorious Wolverhampton crook Carl Johnson finding himself back behind cars this week after failing to beat a deadline to repay money earned from his crime.
Johnson had only paid back £30,029 of the £71,550 he owned.
A Wolverhampton pub with a "laissez-faire attitude towards security, with no discernible door policy and lack of basic knowledge of the licensing act poses a real risk to the public."
It was this reason that Wolverhampton council bosses decided to close down the venue for the second time in five months.
"It is no exaggeration to say each and every gun or bullet that weve seized represents a life potentially saved."
As the final three of 18 members of the notorious Birmingham gang, the Burger Bar Boys, were jailed for their part in supplying guns to the city, West Midlands Police told of their attempts to cut gun and gang crime in the city.
Following our inspection we issued the trust with a warning setting out that significant improvement was immediately required in a number of areas including maternity services and emergency care."
The Care Quality Commission's chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, gave this report on Walsall Manor Hospital after a damning inspection placed it in special measures and giving it a rating of 'inadequate'.
