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April 30, 2025

Murder trial of men accused of starting Wolverhampton house fire which killed man and badly injured four others begins

Wolverhampton crown court high res

Walsall man pleads not guilty to nine year campaign of controlling behaviour and strangling woman

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Wolverhampton Crown Court (PA)

Ringleader of young car thieves gang jailed after Black Country crime spree

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Wolverhampton Crown Court

Man pleads guilty to attacking man and police officer in Oldbury

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April 29, 2025

Wolverhampton Crown Court (PA)

Weeping woman pleads not guilty to maliciously wounding a lady in Wolverhampton

Seven men switch pleas to guilty hours before eight week trial about violent disorder in Walsall which left one shot and three stabbed

Wolverhampton Crown Court (PA)

Spurned ex-husband walks free from jail despite stalking, strangling and ramming his car at woman's Tipton home

April 27, 2025

Sultan is accusing of stealing from a Lye cashpoint

Trial set for man accused of stealing £35,000 from a cashpoint in Dudley over five months

April 26, 2025

Killer of Tipton carer Darren Whitehouse found guilty of death by dangerous driving four years after fatal stolen car crash

Wolverhampton Crown Court (PA)

Bilston woman avoids jail despite attacking two people and beating police officer

April 25, 2025

Police at the scene of the disorder this summer

Jury chosen for major trial over Walsall violent disorder in which one man was shot and three were stabbed

Wolverhampton Crown Court (PA)

West Bromwich man set for trial after denying several charges concerning the selling of crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis

Adeeb Ahmed

Walsall drug dealer ordered to pay Government £25,000 of crack and heroin profits or serve another 10 months

Police used a stinger to puncture Wilkins van tyres

Banned: White van man tries to escape chasing police cars despite stinger deflating three tyres in Great Barr

April 23, 2025

Great Barr School in 1992

Former pupils set to descend on Bartons Arms for Great Barr Comprehensive reunion this weekend

Dr Sophie Gwinnett and trainee counsellor Vicky Swann

Ground-breaking Codsall grief counselling collaboration puts town on the UK mental health map

Wolverhampton crown court high res

Ranting defendant walks free from court as strangulation and coercive behaviour trial collapses

April 22, 2025

Tokyo was found skinny and starving

Heartless Walsall dog owner banned from keeping animals for 10 years after assaulting RSPCA officer who saved his starving dog

Staffordshire polling station

Next week's all out election in Staffordshire is the first county poll where voters will need to bring ID

Suzanne Cherry

Three men charged with manslaughter of Suzanne Cherry outside Aston Wood Golf Club appear in court

Benson was found on a Walsall pavement

Easter miracle: Sky-high cat reunited with kittens after giving birth in a tree and being found 'helpless' by pedestrian

Wolverhampton in top 10 best cities for nightlife in the country according to new report

April 21, 2025

Man arrested after knife wielding masked gang rob bikes from children in Dudley park

The Stourbridge Shuttle

Technical fault closes Stourbridge Junction to Town line for Easter Bank Holiday Monday

Suzanne Cherry, aged 62, of Aldridge, sadly died in hospital on Tuesday (15 April) after she was struck by a van at Aston Wood golf course

Three men charged with manslaughter over death of Suzanne Cherry outside Aston Wood Golf Club

The speed trap on Landsdowne Road

Black Country councillor begs speeding drivers to slow down due to deadly consequences after speed trap results

West Midlands Police

Man remains in critical condition in hospital after being attacked in Birmingham

Pope Francis

Tributes pour in from across the Black Country and Staffordshire after death of Pope Francis

This driver ended up in the cells

Staffordshire Police traffic cops have successful Easter Sunday arresting drivers breaking the law

Have you seen Tilli?

Police launch appeal to find missing girl, 11, from Sandwell

Old Boys turning out for Dementia UK charity football match in Lower Gornal

The Sahara Sisters from Stourbridge and surrounding areas

Sahara Sisters swapping Stourbridge for the sweltering Sahara Desert to raise money for Acorns Hospice after being inspired by brave Olivia

April 20, 2025

Church opens doors to new soup kitchen, food and clothes bank in Willenhall

The new Cricket Lane development

Council announces new streets names for major Staffordshire housing development of more than 500 homes

The proposed apartment block

Planning application submitted for apartment block and houses on Cradley Heath brownfield site

April 19, 2025

Do you know this bilker?

Police appeal for information about bespectacled bilker after Birmingham garages were swindled

The crashed Mini Cooper in Walsall

'I'm lucky me and the dog are not brown bread' - Willenhall residents react to Good Friday police pursuit crash

The crashed Mini Cooper in Walsall

Teenager arrested in hospital after high speed chase through Walsall ends with him crashing into a lamppost

New Wolverhampton commander Jenny Skyrme

West Midlands Police appoints new Wolverhampton commander to replace retiring top cop

Staffordshire Police made several arrests on the M6

Driver wanted for immigration offences among Good Friday arrests on M6 in Staffordshire

Inmates claim £300,000 of taxpayer cash from local prisons in five years - including for injuries from falling out of bunk beds

April 18, 2025

The incident took place on Wednesday night

Two 21-year-olds deny attempted murder after Wolverhampton shooting

The cannabis plants were discovered in the loft area of an address in Oldbury. Photo: West Midlands Police

Halesowen cannabis farmer caught after phoning the police to stop robbers stealing his £30,000 illegal crop

April 17, 2025

Connor Brookes was killed on July 8 of last year

The deadly and escalating Walsall feud behind the Connor Brookes guilty murder verdicts

April 16, 2025

Three men found guilty of murdering Connor Brookes in Walsall drive-by shooting

Craig Callear

Revealed: Face of careless driver who killed his passenger after crashing high-powered BMW in Bilston

Thomas Sykes has been jailed for life after murdering his dad in August 2022

Son jailed for life after being caught trying to bury his murdered father in his West Midlands garden

April 15, 2025

Sharjeel Shahzad

This is the face of the dangerous Porsche driver who killed a baby and injured parents in Smethwick crash

Wolverhampton Crown Court (PA)

Major Wolverhampton attempted murder trial stopped after three weeks due to jurors in danger of missing holidays

The spot where Callear crashed his BMW in November 2021

Walsall man admits killing passenger of the BMW he crashed on the Black Country Route