Those of a certain generation will remember the six-month period when King Kong himself came to Birmingham – but few have as intimate a connection to it as West Midlands comedian Stewart Lee.

A woman was left bruised and shaken after being attacked by three masked men thought to have broken into the "wrong" house.

New government headquarters will be set up in the Black Country as part of plans to move more civil servant roles out of London.

Tributes have been paid to a much-loved Wolves club steward following his death from Covid-19.

A man who attacked a driver and his van with a sledgehammer has been locked up for three years.

Twenty six more Covid deaths have been confirmed at hospitals in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

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Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of kidnap after a car was stolen with the owner's young children still inside.

Concern is growing for a Staffordshire teenager who has been missing for nearly a week.

A drugs suspect was arrested after officers sniffed their way to the car in the Black Country.

A man and woman have been released on bail as an investigation into the death of a nine-year-old boy continues.

A man has been fined £400 for fly-tipping eight black bags of household waste on a Black Country car park.

The Bishop of Lichfield has joined with church leaders across the country to urge people to take the Covid-19 vaccination when offered it.

A row between councillors in Dudley has continued over an offer to drive residents to Covid-19 vaccination appointments.

Toby Neal calls for some of our new-found routine to be kept for the post-pandemic era.

Ancient oak trees dating back to Tudor times are being vandalised by illegal trails for bikes and motorised vehicles.

Nightclub bosses are calling for targeted support to save the country’s club scene from the brink collapse.

A grandfather has had to have 60 pieces of metal put into his back after he was seriously injured in a hit-and-run in the Black Country.

More people are being urged to give up their time and help the fight against Covid as Walsall prepares to ramp up its vaccine programme.

Work is due to start this month on a major new £30 million development at the Black Country Living Museum.

The attacker has been jailed for 42 months.

Wolves captain Conor Coady has been packing food parcels to distribute to local families in a bid to reduce food poverty.

A village's police station has gone up for sale as part of cost-cutting plans by West Midlands Police.

The jury has retired to start their deliberations in the trial of a Dudley father accused of murdering his five-month-old baby daughter.

She started with a target of just £1,000 to help the charity that cared for her mum, but the national spotlight has seen an 11-year-old girl’s efforts soar past £20,000.

Wolverhampton and Wednesbury have one of the worst pass rates for driving tests in the country.

Leaders across the West Midlands have called on the Government to rule out a return to the "complicated" tier system as lockdown is eased.

People in Lichfield and Tamworth are being offered Covid testing after a positive South African variant result.

A Black Country council has had more than 1,300 complaints about coronavirus regulations – ranging from businesses breaking lockdown rules, price gouging and Covid scams.

More than 95 per cent of people aged 70 and over in Dudley have now received the first jab of the coronavirus vaccine, health chiefs said.

Birmingham’s Operation Eagle wrapped up this week after more than 12,500 were tested following the recording of the South African variant in the city.

About 50 people were found at a birthday party in a soundproof room with a DJ and Class A drugs.

A further 23 coronavirus patients have died in hospitals in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

A teenager has been charged with possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

A gunman who blasted a customer with a shotgun at a Black Country barbershop has been found guilty of attempted murder.

A teenager has been locked up for attacking a police dog with a machete.

A man has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries after he was assaulted in Dudley this morning.

Leaders across the West Midlands have called on the Government to rule out a return to the "complicated" tier system as lockdown is eased.

More than 300 fines have been handed out across the West Midlands in one week to people breaching Covid-19 restrictions.

Jury deliberations in a trial after a man was shot in the stomach outside a Walsall barber's shop during a row relating to money owed over a court have started today.

A hospital boss in the West Midlands has said it's "difficult to see" how the NHS will cope if there's another surge in Covid-19 cases.

People are being reminded they should only be going shopping for essentials – after it emerged nearly 100,000 people visited a Black Country shopping centre in one week.

Wedding and Diwali celebrations which allegedly breached Covid regulations could cost a Wolverhampton pub its licence.

A conservation charity has objected to plans to build more than 100 new homes at Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport.

A world leading rose breeder on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border has withdrawn an application to build a large greenhouse and outbuildings on green belt land following an outcry from the community.

Tributes have been paid to a much-loved councillor and former mayor of Dudley who has lost her fight against Covid-19.

Plans to demolish all of the buildings at Perry Barr household waste recycling centre and build new structures have been given the green light, subject to further consultation.

Senior councillors have agreed to add an ongoing £50,000 maintenance pot for parks and open spaces into a Staffordshire council’s budget – after the proposal was put forward by opposition group members.

Plans to build a housing block on land next to a Grade II-listed church have been rejected by councillors because of over-development concerns.

A county council has bought the site of Stafford’s former magistrates’ court as part of plans to regenerate an area of the town centre.

Chamberlin, the specialist castings and engineering group, is urging shareholders to back a £200,000 investment in the business which has recently lost two major contracts.

A man has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder after a man was stabbed in the Black Country.

A police chief says moving civil servants into police buildings could help save more stations from being shut down.

A group of young children were chased by two men with a machete and knife in Wyre Forest.

Hundreds of animal carcases piled high in the fields, the sky filled with thick black smoke. The smell of burning flesh permeating across the countryside.