Worried residents fear plans to convert a disused care home where a huge cannabis factory was discovered into a HMO will create problems in their street.

A murder investigation has been launched after a man was found fatally stabbed in a flat.

A Tory MP has described the Labour Party’s proposals for Lichfield as crazy.

Sandwell Council finances will be “challenged” as the cost of living crunch bites, said the director of finance, as she admitted the pandemic has changed consumer spending permanently.

Lawyer Adam Wagner said police sending questionnaires to more than 50 individuals is a ‘very significant’ development.

Employees at Sandwell Council have “no booking system” to hire out vehicles to deliver services across the borough.

Sandwell Council cabinet was meeting on Wednesday to recommend its annual budget for 2022/23 to full council next month.

Fees for permits to enable people to hold street parties to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee are to be waived.

A Sutton Coldfield cricket club has been granted permission to extend its bar area despite complaints from “exasperated” neighbours about noise.

Council bosses in Wolverhampton have unveiled a “refreshed” plan detailing how specialist services for residents and local businesses will be improved and upgraded over the next two years.

A home in Upper Gornal has been boarded up and its tenant thrown out after drugs and weapons were found.

A much-loved Black Country woodwork group which has been running for the past 30 years has made an emotional appeal to find a new home.

A non-league footballer affectionately known as Donkey Darby who graced Black Country pitches throughout the 1950s and 1960s has died aged 81.

More mobile network equipment will be put on street lights, bus shelters and traffic lights in the Black Country, as part of a new Government scheme to help boost connectivity.

The transformation of West Bromwich town centre is a step closer after Sandwell Council's cabinet approved a detailed masterplan.

A house fire in Wolverhampton that resulted in the death of a man has been blamed on an electrical fault involving a fridge.

A multi-million-pound plan to convert a former care home in Stourbridge into new affordable council homes has been given the green light.

An amateur theatre company believes performing arts in the area are slowly being squeezed out of existence with its base of many years under threat.

A mural showcasing Stourbridge's own footballing star Jude Bellingham has taken pride of place on the walls of a shopping centre in the town.

Businessman Carl Richardson says international event is the perfect antidote to Covid-enforced hiatus.

The Midlands Engine Investment Fund has reached the milestone of delivering £150 million to the region's small businesses since its launch in 2017.

Ideal & WRS Company are one of the largest manufacturers of all leather saddles on wooden saddle trees in the world, offering an extensive range of dressage, show jumping, eventing and showing styles.

A group is planning to tour war memorials around the region to mark 40 years since Argentinian forces invaded the Falkland Islands on April 2, 1982.

A secondary school in Wolverhampton has become the eighth school in the city to be recognised for building a "culture of hospitality and welcome".

A couple from Bilston, who have become sun seekers since retiring, have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in style with a family party and card from the Queen.

Pandemic lockdowns won't have helped the situation.

The landlords of a city pub are deep into training for huge charity challenges they are preparing to take on.

Walsall have sacked boss Matt Taylor after the club's slide towards the relegation places in League Two.

A mother accused of murdering her son has told the jury she only realised there may have been problems between the child and her former boyfriend after the toddler had died.

A drink-driver who left a teenage girl critically injured when he crashed at more than 40mph over the speed limit has been locked up for two years.

A heartbroken family has started fundraising to give a young man the funeral he always wanted and more than £1,000 has already been pledged.

Singer-songwriter Becky Hill has done the West Midlands proud in winning her first BRIT award for dance music, pipping superstars Calvin Harris and Fred Again.

Scores of jobs are up for grabs at Staffordshire attraction Drayton Manor Park.

A further six coronavirus deaths have been recorded in the region's hospitals, the latest NHS figures show.

Two men were stripped of their clothes and assaulted during a "nasty" attack in Walsall.

Scotland Yard is facing calls to expand its investigation into alleged Covid breaches in No 10.

The restoration of Sutton Coldfield pub is set to create 32 new jobs.

Fixing roads has been made a priority in Staffordshire County Council’s latest strategic plan – but the authority has lost out on more than £8m Government funding to help tackle potholes and other repair work.

A new degree apprenticeship introduced by the University of Wolverhampton is breathing new life into the careers of prospective midwives.

Councillors have pledged to do whatever they can to help repair a damaged war memorial.

Half of folk music duo A Different Thread will be kicking off a new tour in Lichfield on Friday(11).

Boris Johnson said his strategy for living with Covid will be published later this month.

The new Climate Change and Green Recovery Panel has met for the first time in Stafford.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the Black Country is "at the heart" of the 21st century green industrial revolution after leading the way last time.

Two bouncers who raped a woman they targeted and plied with drinks while they were working at a nightclub in Wolverhampton have been jailed.

Wolverhampton's libraries are back open to pre-pandemic hours with a new range of activities planned for the spring.

The closure of a Co-op store will be a "huge blow" to the local community, a councillor has said.

It’s time to help your school be top of the class with our latest competition, worth a cracking £12,000.

Around 150 people have lost their jobs after the sudden closure of a Black Country furniture factory.

A woman in her 20s was attacked and raped in an alleyway in Walsall.

The presence of antibodies suggests someone has had the infection in the past or has been vaccinated.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the move would reduce the UK’s exposure to expensive gas prices.

The Levelling Up Secretary says ‘anti-rigour’ arguments have resurged in the education sector during the pandemic.

The home furnishings chain is under pressure, along with other retailers, from rocketing freight costs, utility bills and wage inflation.

A man from the Black Country has been fined £4,000 after his father fell off scaffolding and died whilst working for his company.

Three men have been fined after a flare was thrown onto the pitch during Kidderminster Harriers' heartbreaking FA Cup defeat to West Ham.

Giant wand statues from the world of Harry Potter will visit the region on a tour of the UK this spring in celebration of the release of the latest film in the Fantastic Beasts prequel series.

Relatives of a pensioner who died in the Black Country have been called on to come forward so his funeral can be arranged.

The founder of a charity which helps children fleeing domestic violence has been formally presented with her OBE by the Princess Royal.

More than £7.5 million has been saved in the fight against scams in the last three years across Dudley.

A new micropub can now open in a former town centre shop unit more than eight months after it was granted a licence.

Gillian Keegan said she should have ‘immediately’ ended the meeting, and described not doing so as a ‘mistake’ and ‘an error of judgment’.

A total of 12 candidates are standing for election in the West Midlands seat held by Jack Dromey until his death last month.

A new app developed by a Staffordshire council to help residents improve their health and wellbeing has gone live.

Children’s services and mental health bosses in Wolverhampton are carrying out a review of how the council and its partners support vulnerable adolescent people in the city who may be at risk of exploitation.

Fan zones to encourage people to get involved in the Commonwealth Games are to be set up across Birmingham.

An historic 1930s Dudley town centre building that previously housed a Woolworths has been restored through a £100,000 revamp project.

Not many people can say they have worked for one organisation their whole life, even fewer can say they did so saving and protecting lives.

A Black Country cycling club joined celebrations to mark the start of a countdown to the Commonwealth Games.

A Shropshire rugby club ravaged by flooding four times in the last two years is to get a new ‘flood-proof’ clubhouse raised 2.5 metres above the ground.

Young people across Wolverhampton are being encouraged to have their say on two major youth campaigns taking place this year.

More than 30 per cent of Walsall people have not been vaccinated in some parts of the borough, it has been revealed.

Last September, England’s chief medical officer estimated that half of children had had Covid – a figure that will now be far higher.

A travel agency with branches across the West Midlands is on a recruitment drive to find more than 30 new staff.

The PM appointed a new Chief Whip and moved Jacob Rees-Mogg into a new Brexit-focused role.

John Armitage called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to display a sense of personal responsibility.

It is "disingenuous" for developers to argue that restoration is their motive for building 50 homes at an historic hall, an MP has claimed.

A Shropshire chess player has made an adventurous new move – into the literary world.

Experts from the Centre for Global Development said overstating the cost of vaccines could mean aid was cut by £171 million.

There has been a "significant drop" in the number of children being vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in a Black Country borough since the pandemic started.

Road congestion in the traditional morning and evening peaks eased by 35% in 2021 compared with 2019, according to TomTom.

The front pages focus on the NHS backlog ‘getting worse before it gets better’.

Mr Javid earlier set out in the Commons how the NHS would tackle the backlog built up during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Public Accounts Committee said the Government has ‘much more work’ to do to ease the Brexit burdens on UK firms.

A campaign to raise £750,000 has been launched to help transform a Black Country hospice.

Acorns Children’s Hospice has a special place in Jen Day’s heart.

A suspect has handed himself in to police after an attack left a man needing surgery to reattach his ear.

Research by the Post Office reveals almost half of people in the West Midlands have reduced spending on essentials in the last two months.

Proposals to create a series of open access cycle trails within Sandwell Valley are to go before council bosses for approval.

The chairman of the Post Office has announced he is to stand down from his role just days before an inquiry begins into how hundreds of post office workers were falsely accused of stealing from their own tills.

Black Country students are being inspired by a new after-school project which hopes to encourage young people to pursue science and engineering subjects.

The Brazilian Government has given a prestigious award to a professor from the University of Birmingham, for his "outstanding contribution" to championing academic co-operation between Brazil and the UK.

Pupils have taken part in a video call with children in Sri Lanka as excitement builds for the Commonwealth Games.

Profits of £20,000-a-minute will anger millions.

Masterchef champion Dan Lee made an "emotional" return to the Birmingham college where he trained 12 years ago, which helped him embark on his path to Masterchef glory.

Pub and restaurants group Marston's is among hospitality and leisure business signatories to a letter urging a rethink on a rise in VAT.

Operators of award-winning Warley Woods park are thanking their lucky stars after an internet appeal by Dame Julie Walters led to a funding boost.

Just 7% of areas have recorded a week-on-week rise in rates.

A school bus and a Jeep involved in a crash which left the car driver dead were both travelling below the speed limit before the tragic collision, an inquest heard.

A Walsall MP says her calls for more funds to tackle violent crime in a borough have fallen on deaf ears.