The week's news stories - in pictures
A selection of snapshots taken from the Express & Star across the last week.
The ultimate telephone helpline - Kurt Hyett and Gillian Bridgwater delivered their baby in a dramatic home birth, with help from a newly-trained ambulance operator Maria Spurr.nextpage
Projects manager Adrian Chubb at the Goodyear factory site in Wolverhampton. The famous Goodyear site is being reduced to rubble in a three-month clearing operation, that will pave the way for more than 600 homes to be built there.
The demolition work in progress.nextpage
Tyson, a puppy rejected by its mother, has found an unlikely parent figure at its home in Staffordshire in the shape of a half-tonne horse named Sophie.nextpage
Stan Gardner from the Royal Oak Inn, Wolverhampton. Gardner, who has been a tenant at the 200-year-old Royal Oak for 14 years, said he had no choice but to put up the price of beer due to the recent price hikes, which has pushed away punters who can get their hands on cheaper beer elsewhere. Dozens more pubs in the region also fear closures as a result of the hikes.nextpage
Fly-tippers have been caught on camera dumping two tonnes of Tarmac and concrete kerbstones on the roadside in a quiet residential street near Wolverhampton.
