Bus timetable changes in the Black Country are coming into place next week – with three services being dropped.
Death rates from prostate cancer have exposed massively unequal survival prospects for patients in different parts of England, it was claimed today. Death rates from prostate cancer have exposed massively unequal survival prospects for patients in different parts of England, it was claimed today. Campaigners said the differences amounted to an "unacceptable" postcode lottery. Depending where men lived, deaths from the disease swung from more than 40 per cent below the national average to the same number of percentage points above it. Rates across Shropshire - apart from Shrewsbury and Atcham - are above average, Office of National Statistics figures reveal. Ludlow has the highest level in Shropshire, with a figure 28 per cent above average, while levels for Shrewsbury and Atcham are two per cent below. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
Dudley Police have renewed their appeal to find a missing Wolverhampton man last seen leaving Russells Hall Hospital.
Two more teenagers have been charged with the murder of Bailey Atkinson who was stabbed in Walsall.
A promised land of magic, adventure and giants await youngsters when Jack and the Beanstalk is staged at Codsall Village Hall.
A man has been charged with a string of robberies in Birmingham, Sandwell and Leicester.
Police inquiries are continuing after a car was driven into Bodycare in Bridgnorth days after Christmas last year.
Police inquiries are continuing after a car was driven into Bodycare in Bridgnorth days after Christmas last year.
A theft and assault suspect who designed his own 'wanted' poster and put it on Facebook was this afternoon arrested.
The jury has gone out at Wolverhampton Crown Court in the case of nine relatives accused of violent disorder.
Police are appealing for information after a "distressing and frightening" fight between football fans at a motorway service station.
The Met Office has issued an update over a possible UK heatwave in August following record temperatures in July.
The Met Office has issued an update over a possible UK heatwave in August following record temperatures in July.
A woman was reportedly grabbed by the neck and assaulted in an attack at Stourbridge bus station.
The county's Covid contact tracing success rate has risen slightly as the number of new positive cases reaches a record high, figures reveal.
