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Walsall’s history to be celebrated with new digital archive grant awarded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Walsall Council has secured a grant of £249,020 to create a digital archive celebrating the borough’s rich history and diverse communities.

Your World|Mar 19

The infamous Jack Haddock inspecting his work at the old Walsall Local History Centre, Essex Street in the late 1980s

Couple who spent 67 years bringing music to the people of Walsall

Features|Feb 19

The Prince pub in Walsall is set to be converted into flats

200-year-old Black Country town centre pub to be converted into flats

A look back at The New Art Gallery Walsall as it gears up for its 25th anniversary

Step back in time to swinging 1960s Black Country with 30 of our archive photos

Wolverhampton nostalgia|Jun 14, 2024

33 nostalgic photos showing life and times of the Black Country throughout the 1970s

Wolverhampton nostalgia|Jun 9, 2024

How Covid and electric cars helped put famous foundry on the brink

Walsall nostalgia|May 22, 2024

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Heartfelt Sister Dora letter appears in family history magazine

Walsall nostalgia|Dec 13, 2023

How a Black Country MP tipped to be Prime Minister faked his own death and disappeared - Part 1: Golden Boy

Walsall nostalgia|Nov 28, 2023

14 perfectly preserved photographs that show impressive Black Country spirit during WWII

Dudley nostalgia|Oct 28, 2023

How the West Midlands was last bastion for bloodthirsty bull baiting

Dudley nostalgia|Oct 28, 2023

Drums which honoured Walsall war heroes

Features|Sep 8, 2023

'No regrets from either of us!' Couple shares key to successful marriage following 70th anniversary

Walsall nostalgia|Jul 23, 2023

Mystery Walsall women with the film star look - do you know them?

Features|Jun 12, 2023

Service to honour pit disaster 150 years on

Walsall nostalgia|Nov 12, 2022

Grand Theatre's Windrush film returning to Light House Cinema

Wolverhampton entertainment|Aug 24, 2022

How aviation heroine Amy Johnson survived a West Midlands mishap

Features|Jul 19, 2022

Child with hands over face

Children put at ‘unnecessary risk’ under proposals to overhaul mental health law

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Shabana Mahmood speech – London

Sentencing guidelines delayed after row over claims of ‘two-tier justice’

UK News|Just now

The River Thames near Woolwich

Search for girl, 11, missing after entering River Thames

UK News|1 hour ago

Harry with Sentebale chairwoman Sophie Chandauka

Harry ‘sent unpleasant message’ to Sentebale charity’s boss

UK News|1 hour ago

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood

Ministers mull axing Sentencing Council as law to reverse guidance is drawn up

UK News|2 hours ago

Overflowing bins on a Birmingham street

'National embarrassment' Government accused of ‘washing its hands’ of Birmingham bin strike problem

UK News|2 hours ago

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

Glen Elmy handed back his keys after just three days

Dream home turned nightmare - Walsall man who won James Bond-style property 'handed keys back after three days'

Mackintosh at the Willow

Glasgow tearoom hosting talks on enduring relationship with ‘now-humble’ cuppa

Viral news|Mar 24

Ireland’s ‘best contemporary art’ to be showcased at Dublin fair

Viral news|Mar 23

Lisa Wright and Valerie Jack

Woman who gave kidney to friend urges Scots to consider donation

Viral news|Mar 11

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom after a French court found her guilty in an embezzlement case in Paris

Marine Le Pen barred from seeking public office after embezzlement conviction

World News|Just now

Mourners carry the bodies of eight Red Crescent emergency responders

Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in mass grave – UN

World News|Just now

The ruins of Sky Villa Condo that collapsed in Friday’s earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar

Earthquake death tolls passes 2,000 in Myanmar

World News|2 hours ago

Marine Le Pen

What to know about the Marine Le Pen ruling

World News|3 hours ago

Myanmar Southeast Asia Earthquake

Earthquake death tolls passes 1,700 in Myanmar

World News|4 hours ago

A Russian Army 2S5 howitzer Giatsint-S fires towards Ukrainian positions in Ukraine

Russia sees efforts to end Ukraine war as drawn-out process – Kremlin official

World News|5 hours ago