Mary Beard says damehood ‘tribute to Greeks and Romans’
The academic has been awarded the honour for her services to the study of classical civilisations.
The academic has been awarded the honour for her services to the study of classical civilisations.
Plans for a controversial motorway that will skirt the Black Country and carve through sections of Staffordshire are back on the table.
n Theresa May, as she heads into the New Year, will be reflecting, possibly a little ruefully, on the past year of bumps and bruises rather than the months of plain sailing she had hoped for.
A year ago when South Staffordshire MP Gavin Williamson was still finding his feet in the Whips office the suggestion that he might be the next Prime Minister would have been completely ludicrous.
Susan Calman and JK Rowling are full of praise for each other on Twitter.
Susan Calman said she was wowed by dancer Gorka’s muscled arms.
She has also said that she has not danced with a man or worn heels in over a decade.
There is nobody more proud of the Strictly star than her other half.
The Glasgow-born comedian and former lawyer is hoping to negotiate her way around the dancefloor.
We start our series on the election battles in Staffordshire and the Black Country with the Tory stronghold of South Staffordshire.
The Government is still on course to trigger Article 50 before the end of the month despite the House of Lords 'attempts to weaken Britain's negotiation position', according to Theresa May's parliamentary enforcer.
Forty-eight hours before, they had been celebrating an historic vote in the House of Commons with a glass of champagne.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said the Government had to cap the number of lone child refugees being brought to Britain from Europe because the rule was encouraging people-traffickers.
Tributes have been paid to a Staffordshire priest who has died aged 101.
The House of Lords 'overstepped the mark' by blocking the government's planned cuts to tax credits and now faces 'long-overdue reform' says a leading Conservative MP.
Amid deep and growing resentment from the public, the Lords must get their House in order, urgently.
Just one new baroness in the House of Lords is from the West Midlands - amid an intake of dozens of former MPs, party grandees and donors.
The Conservatives have kept control in all their constituencies across south Staffordshire after this morning's results.
Another Tory safe seat is South Staffordshire, where the incumbent MP is Gavin Williamson who has been David Cameron's eyes and ears in Westminster.
The former MP who gave the address at Enoch Powell's funeral has dismissed as 'absurd' allegations he was involved in 'satanic' sexual abuse.