The recent sale of the Shropshire and Mid Wales supermarket chain Harry Tuffins to the Co-op has been referred to the Office of Fair Trading, it was revealed today.
Up to 50 jobs are on their way to Walsall with the opening of a call centre for Co-operative Energy. The centre is to open towards the end of this month.
Balaclava-wearing robbers raided a South Staffordshire store and demanded cash before fleeing. The raiders escaped with a "large amount of coins".
Britain's first £1 million footballer Trevor Francis is recovering after suffering a suspected heart attack. The 57-year-old had to have emergency surgery at a Birmingham hospital.
A teenage boy injured when armed raiders struck at two homes in Shropshire could require corrective surgery, detectives have revealed.
Wolves winger Stephen Hunt today underwent successful groin surgery – and could still play this season.
A 21-year-old man from Ludlow has died after a long fight with a rare heart disease.
The devastated family of a retired school cook who died following a routine operation to remove her gall bladder said they hoped lessons would be learned following her death.
Darren Bent's Euro 2012 dreams were left hanging by a thread as the Aston Villa and England striker spent today in hospital recuperating from ankle surgery.
The Staffordshire-based Midlands Co-operative Society has defied the Christmas retail gloom with yet another year of robust seasonal retail trading.
A 28-year-old man accused of ram raiding the Co-op store in Whitchurch and stealing a cash machine containing £59,000 appeared at Shrewsbury Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Doctors at Stafford Hospital wrongly removed a pensioner's stomach after she was misdiagnosed with cancer.
Wolves have received an injury blow with news that Adlene Guedioura will be out for a minimum of six weeks.
Letter: In Pant, near Oswestry, we are lucky, we have a busy rural village shop run by the Co-operative. They have just refurbished it and it now looks every inch the corporate retail outlet. They no doubt hope this will improve the shop's takings.
A well-known former sea scout leader died suddenly just days after undergoing an operation for a broken leg following a car accident.
