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

The New Art Gallery was part of the first phase of the district's Millennium project, is home to priceless collections and has in the past played host Royalty.

How RAF Cosford nursed sick and battle-scarred prisoners back to health as they returned home

New local history book by Walsall Council honours late Queen Elizabeth II

11 retro toys commonly banned from schools in the 2000s

Education|Jan 30

Boogie Lights Express aims to banish winter blues at Severn Valley Railway

Warning that land slippage on the Severn Valley Railway will affect some services

Celebrations for Wolverhampton banqueting suite as building taken off national at-risk register

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A £70 plane to beat the traffic? What could go wrong? - Toby Neal looks back on the fatally flawed 'people's plane'

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Eighty years ago, on December 24, 1944, Hitler sent a Christmas message to a Shropshire town.

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