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May 31, 2025

'I started a craft business in Bearwood while pregnant and now I sell to customers around the world'

Features|2 hours ago

May 30, 2025

'If we don’t act we'll be looking at water rationing like in the Mediterranean' - Minister explains why Government will force through reservoir plans

Features|May 30

May 29, 2025

Bereaved mother of Wolverhampton knife-crime victim asks: 'Why isn't it Sceptre Week every week?'

May 28, 2025

'He was such a gentle soul, a gentleman' - Tributes pour in for former newspaper editor John Griffiths who has died at his Telford home

May 24, 2025

"I left teaching to become an osteopath and now help people in pain at my practice in Eccleshall"

Features|May 24

May 19, 2025

The day a Lancaster bomber crashed on my Wednesfield street - killing its crew

Wolverhampton|May 19

May 18, 2025

'The day I came face to face with Goering' - Stourbridge war veteran's role in the Nuremberg trials

Stourbridge|May 18

May 17, 2025

'I run a mother and baby boutique in Kinver with my two daughers but it's my grandpa who is the inspiration behind our unusual name'

May 15, 2025

'It was basic and short of creature comforts - but I loved it' - Memories of Shropshire's 19th century terraced rows demolished in 1960s

Features|May 15

May 11, 2025

'I love James Bond so much I turned a room in my Wolverhampton home into a shrine to my favourite fictional spy'

Entertainment|May 11

May 10, 2025

11 pictures of what life was like in Walsall in 1978. Are you in any of them?

Walsall nostalgia|May 10

May 8, 2025

VE Day brought first ever tot of naval-issue rum for Shropshire Wrens

May 5, 2025

How the West Midlands remembered VE Day - poignant interviews from the files of Peter Rhodes

Nostalgia|May 5

May 4, 2025

'I started my artisan bakery business in Staffordshire after my children bought me a bread making course'

Food and Drink|May 4

May 2, 2025

'Time will tell if I did the right thing' - Shropshire author took a sometimes rocky road to achieve his mill home dream

April 27, 2025

Celebrating independent traders: Cannock bridal boutique is the perfect fit

Features|Apr 27

April 25, 2025

'Stop the Wolverhampton express!' - How quick thinking spared Wolverhampton from a major rail disaster

Features|Apr 25

April 20, 2025

Meet the Staffordshire arborist transforming unique trees into bespoke furniture

Features|Apr 20

April 14, 2025

'I haven't regretted it for one second,' says new chief of troubled fire service after 100 days in post

Features|Apr 14

April 13, 2025

Historic and fascinating RAF Cosford - 26 pictures from popular museum and airbase between Wolverhampton and Telford

April 11, 2025

"I'm sure it will be emotional" - Olympic ice skaters Torvill and Dean coming to Birmingham for farewell tour

For his dedicated service and good works, Shropshire rural bobby Bill Williams got a gentle pat on the back from officialdom. For Alan Scriven, a Wolverhampton lad from an impoverished background whose life Bill transformed, it was a meagre reward.

Features|Apr 11

April 8, 2025

Longbridge 20 years on - end of the road for Britain's biggest car plant MG Rover

April 4, 2025

Empty seats. Rows and rows of them. It wasn't the best start to Dudley Pageant back in 1951. The weather was bad - but even so.

April 3, 2025

Famous Dudley toy and bike shop to close after 160 years

April 1, 2025

We went on a 'pothole safari' around the Black Country - I lost count how many I saw on one street

March 31, 2025

'Sort out the potholes!' Ravaged roads of the West Midlands in disrepair as RAC reveals huge cost to motorists

Politics|Mar 31

March 30, 2025

'I'm keeping an old tradition alive' - Staffordshire saddle maker impresses industry judges

March 25, 2025

130 fantastic World Book Day 2025 pictures from schools across the West Midlands and Staffordshire

March 22, 2025

How Covid brought down the curtain on our theatres - but the show still went on

Features|Mar 22

March 21, 2025

Things are looking up for a 21st century airship revival in Bridgnorth - but this new dawn has beckoned before

Features|Mar 21

March 19, 2025

'I could never have dreamed of anything this bad' - Remembering the shock of Covid at Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital

'I saw so much care and compassion' - minister Kinnock hints at extra funding for hospice sector during visit to Stafford's Katharine House

March 18, 2025

From joking in the pub to six weeks in isolation: How I realised Covid was no laughing matter

Features|Mar 18

March 17, 2025

Covid five years on: How the awful reality unfolded in just a few weeks

Long Reads|Mar 17

March 15, 2025

Wolverhampton's Olympic champion Denise Lewis at 52: 'I feel ageless, it's a really special place to be'

March 12, 2025

We need to talk about incontinence, Dudley MP tells Parliament

Politics|Mar 12

March 9, 2025

The 'Great Fire' that changed Newport forever

March 5, 2025

Best-rated campsites in the West Midlands as first signs of Spring show

Entertainment|Mar 5

Crufts 2025: Ten of the Best in Show winners of the past decade including a poodle, a whippet and a Lagotto Romagnolo

March 3, 2025

Revealed: The 17 Black Country bus lane cameras which have raised £12 million for councils

Transport|Mar 3

A rare beauty, isn't she? Muscular, too, with enough horsepower to knock your socks off.

March 2, 2025

Concrete carbuncles or a bold vision for the future? Shropshire's 1960s era public buildings standing at a crossroads

February 22, 2025

Wolverhampton-born author explains what should happen to 'forgotten Scots' artefact 'Book of Deer'

Features|Feb 22

February 19, 2025

Life was a Laff for Suzi Perry's dad during the heady days of Wolverhampton's famous nightspot

Wolverhampton entertainment|Feb 19

Couple who spent 67 years bringing music to the people of Walsall

Features|Feb 19

February 17, 2025

'I'm so excited' - Beverley Knight coming home to star for the first time at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre

February 16, 2025

'I've swapped Wolverhampton potholes and politics for motherhood and I'm loving it'

'George Edalji - guilty or innocent?' - New research uncovers clues to unsolved mystery hanging over Cannock since 1888

Features|Feb 16

February 12, 2025

Bold plans for museum to remember Wolverhampton's 910 Battle of Tettenhall, when Vikings were driven out of Britain