A man has been taken to hospital with burns after a fire at a house.

Funerals and crematoria group Dignity conducted fewer funerals in the first six months of its latest financial year.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng insisted he was focused on helping ‘vulnerable’ customers heat their homes.

It comes after Kwasi Kwarteng said there would be no bailout for energy firms that go to the wall amid rising gas prices.

A children's hospice in the West Midlands has reopened its doors for overnight stays for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Frontier Development Capital has successfully exited its investment in a Black Country manufacturer, behind the world’s first condensate filter made from recycled glass.

One of the country’s oldest air pollution control companies is moving into its second century in a new headquarters with help from commercial property agents Siddall Jones.

Community leaders and residents have told of their shock after a woman was found stabbed to death in the second suspected murder in Wolverhampton in two days.

Police have issued a dispersal order on a Black Country town centre following two violent attacks, including one where a man was hit with a hammer.

A fundraising campaign has been launched to help secure the future of a church and community centre.

Hundreds of West Midlands Police officers missed work as the force's absence rate hit nearly six per cent at the height of the Covid pandemic, new figures reveal.

“It’s been such a long journey and it’s had a massive impact on us a family. It feels like we’ve spent the last 18 months living on a knife edge," says the mother of a man who is struggling with the effects of long Covid.

Schools across the region are gearing up to support the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccination programme for young people aged 12 to 15.

The delicious smell of German sausages, lederhosen-clad hosts and oomptastic live entertainment – welcome to Oktoberfest at Alton Towers.

Prices of wholesale gas have surged 70% since August.

Wolverhampton University has set up a trio of on-campus walk-in clinics to encourage all students and staff to get their coronavirus vaccination.

The first stretch of tram tracks outside Wolverhampton's refurbished railway station have been installed.

The news will be a major boost for airlines such as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

A woman has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a car hit a tree in Stourbridge.

Boris Johnson warned that the gap between what industrialised nations have promised and what they are actually delivering remains ‘vast’.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of two Staffordshire men accused of causing the death of a wheelchair user almost 13 years after he was attacked.

Sutton Coldfield's Empire Cinema has confirmed it could be more than nine months until it reopens again.

Some 1.5 million people will be contacted and encouraged to arrange a top-up jab against Covid-19.

A further 25 deaths have been confirmed in the region's hospitals over the last four days, NHS figures have shown.

A teenage mother-to-be is still in a critical condition in hospital four days after being injured in a crash between a tram and car in Wolverhampton.

A community library has been set up outside a primary school in the Black Country to encourage children to read for fun.

More than 2,000 people and as many as 20 boats took part in the Brownhills Canal Festival which made a welcome return at the weekend.

A woman has been stabbed to death at a house in Wolverhampton.

Quinn Foakes, 15, was jabbed as the vaccination programme is rolled out to three million eligible youngsters across the UK.

Some 15,000 Britons took part in the Novavax clinical trial.

President Biden is expected to make an announcement soon.

A midwife from the Black Country who stepped in to stop a premature baby being born on a holiday flight has been honoured at the Who Cares Wins Awards.

A school has been praised for taking effective action towards the removal of 'special measures' status.

CCTV footage has been released showing the moment a shop worker was threatened with a large sword in the Black Country.

Wolverhampton Wanderers has officially launched a record label – and is the first football club in the UK to do so.

A man who suffered a serious head injury when he was struck by a car had pushed his friend out of the way seconds before he was hit.

A derelict county hall which gained notoriety as a swingers club could be bulldozed to make way for homes under new plans.

A Lichfield school’s community-backed allotment project is set to grow and become a weekly activity for students.

Music on the move is on offer next week when the Lichfield Arts' Folk Train runs on the Cross City Line to Sutton Coldfield.

More than 1,000 people participated in Lichfield Community Games at the weekend trying their hand at a host of sports and activities.

A man has been charged with the murder of a pensioner at a house in the Black Country.

The retail giant said it will be the first supermarket group to remove plastic bags from all bananas sold in its stores.

Concerns have been raised that failing to vaccinate the world will increase the chances of new variants emerging.

The Scottish Government said older residents in care homes are the first to be offered the booster coronavirus vaccine from Monday.

It was a case of the strong arm of the law as six prison staff from HMP Featherstone in Wolverhampton put their weight behind their latest fundraising project to bring in the pounds for a mental health charity.

The falling masonry and peeling paintwork of a famous brickworks. Rusting machinery lying idle in what had once been the workshop of the world.

Two volunteers with learning disabilities have won a special award for their work on a pioneering end of life care and bereavement project at St Giles Hospice.

Thousands of complaints were recorded across the West Midlands as noisy neighbours caused a headache during the coronavirus pandemic.

More than £43,000 has been raised through a fundraising skydive over the West Midlands in memory of the people killed in the Tunisia terrorist attack in 2015.

The skies of the West Midlands will be ablaze in June next year as Britain celebrates its first Platinum Jubilee in history.

South Staffordshire Council is considering handing over taxi licensing functions to a neighbouring authority in a move that is claimed could cut costs and improve public safety.

A teenager has been arrested after a girl was lured away from a playground in a park and sexually assaulted, police have said.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 73-year-old man suffered a head injury at a house in Wolverhampton and later died.

A man from Dudley has been jailed for more than a year for dangerous driving after a 25-minute police pursuit across the Black Country.

Professor Stephen Reicher said the relaxation of rules on international travel will increase the risk of importing infections and variants.

More than 3,000 runners from across the West Midlands and Staffordshire hit the streets of Stafford to take part in the town's annual half marathon.

Communities will be invited to sign up to a climate change pledge as part of Stafford Borough Council’s campaign to become more sustainable.

A Shropshire contractor has been chosen to undertake the revamp of Dudley Town Hall with work starting next month, council chiefs have said.

People in Sandwell have been urged to get a PCR Covid-19 test if they're feeling unwell – even if they don't have the three traditional symptoms.

The founder of one of Britain’s biggest food producers has warned that the growing carbon dioxide crisis – coupled with the continuing lack of labour supply – could jeopardise food supplies and ruin Christmas unless the Government intervenes to...

Police have urged people to come forward as they continue to investigate a fatal crash involving a car and a coach.

A summer activity scheme enjoyed by thousands of youngsters across the city has been hailed as a "great success" and is set to be replicated in half-term.

A new project to create a wildflower meadow as part of the city's carbon reduction plans has been launched.

Plans to knock down a former cinema have been put forward after demolition work was halted by Stafford Borough Council.