The week in pictures
A selection of snapshots taken from the Express and Star across the last week.
James Park-Davies and Kelly Bayton, both aged 11, with the recycler robot who has been touring primary schools across the West Midlands.
Stephen Whittaker of Birmingham auctioneers Fellows & Sons was one of many people profiting from the alarmingly high levels of debt in the West Midlands announced last week. nextpage
Marlene and Robin Corfield from Albrighton, who have given Max the Staffordshire bull terrier a new home. Max captured readers' hearts after his previous owner "kicked his head as if it was a football".
A monster crane toppled onto a Black Country home last week, punching a hole through the roof and sending debris into the street.nextpage
Joe Thomas, aged 58, from Wolverhampton, looking at a sign that was put up next to where Fred the tramp used to live in the middle of the ring road.nextpage
Jonathan Maitland goes undercover to expose the licensed scrapyard dealers, who buy metal without appropriate questioning as to its origins from the metal thieves who have plagued the West Midlands in recent years.nextpage
The fun fair is under water in Stourport after the River Severn burst its banks.
