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November 21, 2024

Your Letters: November 21

Readers' letters|2 hours ago

Peter Rhodes on VE-Day, secure borders and fish and chips for all

News|4 hours ago

Scandal of lives lost due to turnover of NHS staff

Star Comment|4 hours ago

November 20, 2024

Comment: Our thoughts are with those who lost son, father and friend Liam Payne

Star Comment|17 hours ago

Your Letters: November 20

Readers' letters|Nov 20

Tragic tale of a fallen Australian soldier who ended up being buried in Dudley

Homelessness and hunger bring shame to us all

Star Comment|Nov 20

Peter Rhodes on booze in Downing Street, a boom in psychotherapy and jobs for two iconic women

Peter Rhodes|Nov 20

Country will pay a great price for hidden taxes

Star Comment|Nov 20

November 19, 2024

Your Letters: November 19

Readers' letters|Nov 19

Peter Rhodes on a cook's mistake, harsh punishments and the high-risk profession of writing

Peter Rhodes|Nov 19

November 18, 2024

Your Letters: November 18

Readers' letters|Nov 18

Peter Rhodes on a slow train, a job for Homer and whatever became of the navvies?

Peter Rhodes|Nov 18

November 16, 2024

Your Letters: November 16

Readers' letters|Nov 16

Mark Andrews: E-scooters, the four-day week and kids who smell of fish

Mark Andrews|Nov 16

November 15, 2024

Your Letters: November 15

Readers' letters|Nov 15

Peter Rhodes on learning maths, queuing for pans and a close look at the art of subtitling

Peter Rhodes|Nov 15

November 14, 2024

Mark Andrews: What I learned from a night on the tiles in Milton Keynes

Your Letters: November 14

Readers' letters|Nov 14

Peter Rhodes on unwanted horns, unpaid loans and trying to predict the Grim Reaper's arrival

Peter Rhodes|Nov 14

November 13, 2024

Peter Rhodes on mulch, tortoises and a variant on the four-day working week

Your Letters: November 13

Readers' letters|Nov 13

November 12, 2024

Your Letters: November 12

Readers' letters|Nov 12

Peter Rhodes on greenwashing, shoplifting and Trump's road map to peace

November 11, 2024

Your Letters: November 11

Readers' letters|Nov 11

Toby Neal on politics: American election inquest and how Rachel Reeves' 'working people' get by

Toby Neal|Nov 11

Peter Rhodes on clean power, a Church under attack and the nobility of the Tommies

Opinions|Nov 11

November 9, 2024

Your Letters: November 9

Readers' letters|Nov 9

Mark Andrews on Vordeman's meltdown, a politically incorrect car, and a Hollywood actor on the run

Mark Andrews|Nov 9

November 8, 2024

Your Letters: November 8

Readers' letters|Nov 8

Peter Rhodes on a new mole, a queue at the surgery and how to deal with President Trump

November 7, 2024

Your Letters: November 7

Readers' letters|Nov 7

Peter Rhodes on vanishing hedgehogs and chucking money at migration and academia

Peter Rhodes|Nov 7

November 6, 2024

Your Letters: November 6

Readers' letters|Nov 6

Pools at risk as Wolverhampton Council announces £32.5 million worth of cuts

Peter Rhodes on first-world problems, pricey plinths and an infinite challenge for monkeys

Peter Rhodes|Nov 6

November 5, 2024

Your Letters: November 5

Readers' letters|Nov 5

Peter Rhodes on new-tech stoves, Labour's Mr Cool and a big bill for doctors

Peter Rhodes|Nov 5

How gunpowder plotters came a cropper on the outskirts of Dudley

Kingswinford|Nov 5

November 4, 2024

Peter Rhodes on censoring kids' books, how a tiny fault can doom a car and more

Black Country hospitals prepare for winter pressures - here's how local NHS plans are shaping up

November 2, 2024

Mark Andrews: PM's dubious fanboy, road tax debacle, and an Adonis like professor who says the Welsh are ugly

Mark Andrews|Nov 2

Comment: Rachel Reeves is "othering" non-workers believing they're modern-day graft dodgers

November 1, 2024

Peter Rhodes on a vanished city, careless words and discovering that you're not a working person

Peter Rhodes|Nov 1

October 31, 2024

Comment: Rachel Reeves listened to public's demand for change in the Budget – but will it work?

Opinions|Oct 31

Peter Rhodes on handwriting, sales slogans and the joy of dining with strangers

October 30, 2024

Sober Chancellor delivers a sobering budget for difficult times

Politics|Oct 30

Watch: New facial recognition CCTV system in Wolverhampton detects shoppers' feelings, age, and glasses

Wolverhampton|Oct 30

Opinion: Asylum barge was dogged with controversy from the beginning

Wolverhampton|Oct 30

Explained – why a little weekend exercise can help you beat off dementia