The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the number of UK workers on payrolls rose by 182,000 between June and July.

Police are appealing for help in the search for a missing Black Country man.

The number in work across the West Midlands rose again in the three months to the end of June.

A foal was rescued and reunited with its mother after falling into the River Severn near Bridgnorth.

It comes as efforts to bring back British nationals and selected Afghans are set to continue, with more troops being sent in.

Research suggests a small number of cases of Bell’s palsy have been reported in clinical trials of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.

Data also shows pregnant women have reported similar reactions to vaccines as woman who are not pregnant.

Poundland is aiming to boost sales by cashing in on the market for school uniforms this summer.

Work has begun on Sandvik Coromant's new UK headquarters and high-tech innovation centre in Halesowen

A business that supplies sign support structures and fittings to the highways sector has secured fresh funding from Santander UK.

The father of a man who was stabbed to death has urged everyone to make a stand against knife crime and end the cycle of “pain”.

A contractor is to be fined by a council for breaching conditions of a roadworks scheme and keeping temporary traffic running at peak hours.

A young man who was stopped by the police in Walsall claimed he had no idea about the drugs and more than £1,000 cash that officers found in the hired car he was driving.

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he can "make the argument" that his party's priorities are the same as those of voters in the West Midlands.

Work is set to start this month on building the first new council homes on a Wolverhampton housing estate since it was officially opened by Princess Margaret in 1969.

Family, friends and former patients of a much-loved Wolverhampton doctor turned out as a road was named in his honour.

Union members at the GKN Automotive factory in Birmingham have begun receiving ballot papers in the dispute over the decision by parent company GKN Melrose to close the site next year.

The leader of a Dudley Council made the latest visit to a local business as part of a pledge to help businesses coming out of the pandemic.

A fascinating insight into life on a country estate has been revealed by a woman who has lived there for more than eight decades.

A Bridgnorth schoolgirl has been given the backing of the town council to take her climate change project to the next stage.

It was a short enough walk, but Sir Keir Starmer's stroll through Wolverhampton city centre certainly highlighted one of the key challenges facing him as he bids to win back voters.

The 50th new home has been completed on the site of a former in Walsall bakery.

History has repeated itself as five generations of one family met for the very first time in Hednesford at the weekend.

A charity has benefitted from the generous donation by a Black Country schoolboy of his long hair.

A house believed to have been a base for drug dealers has been shut down and boarded up by police.

A new Sutton restaurant is aiming to 'shake up the local food scene'.

A team of intrepid cyclists braved torrential rain to ride 127 miles from Wigan to Wolverhampton and raise nearly £8,000 for a homelessness charity for young people.

Two men were injured and a woman was dragged along by a car in a homophobic attack in Birmingham's Gay Village.

A hotel recently used to house homeless people and early release prisoners during the coronavirus pandemic will be demolished to make way for new homes – and villagers have welcomed its removal.

Masked robbers armed with a crowbar, an axe and a machete raided a shop in the Black Country.

A hugely respected and popular councillor, sportsman and campaigner from Sutton Coldfield has turned 100.

Thousands of new jobs could be created after plans to redevelop a former munitions factory next to the M54 were given the green light.

A signed and framed shirt, training boots and photograph of Nelson Semedo, the Portuguese footballer who plays right back for Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Portugal national team, has been raffled to raise vital funds for the Midlands Air Ambulance...

Boris Johnson will chair the meeting on Monday afternoon.

People should take ‘sensible precautions’, the BMA said.

Vaccinated people are in line to receive discount vouchers.

A new traffic system on tight residential roads in Walsall is set to come into force to stop warring motorists battling in the street.

Police are appealing for helping tracing a man after a football fan was left with a broken nose.

A drug driver who killed a pedestrian when he hit him at twice the speed limit has been jailed for two years.

A further 15 coronavirus deaths have been confirmed in the region's hospitals – in the latest figures released by NHS England.

Sandwell Council has appointed a director of a construction company as its third chief executive in as many years.

Sir Keir Starmer said Labour has taken over the Tories' mantle as the party of law and order as he called for a crackdown on rising youth crime during a visit to the Black Country.

A motorcyclist was killed in a crash in Bewdley.

Deaths involving drugs are rising sharply in many areas of the West Midlands, new figures reveal.

Motorists in an area of Wolverhampton are being braced for yet more roadworks following weeks of delays.

Friends as well as strangers are rallying around a Shifnal couple to give them a wonderful wedding after a young mum's shock cancer diagnosis.

A Black Country man who was caught with more than £1,800 worth of cannabis had a notebook on him which showed "a significant amount of dealing going on".

A leading Black Country businessman is urging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to bring business leaders and other leading figures into his cabinet.

Obsessive Mark Chilman ‘lay in wait’ for his victim after dark, after plotting to kill the man dating his ex-partner.

Detectives have been granted extra time to question two men suspected of murdering a woman whose body was set on fire in a layby.

Preparing his team for a game against England, Wales manager Jimmy Murphy went through a detailed appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of each player in the opposing side – bar one.

A foster carer has written a book during lockdown to help her seriously disabled son enjoy dreams of working with animals.

Sandwell has one of the lowest drug death rates in the country, according to the latest figures.

A woman was found dead in a canal in the Black Country.

An operatic company today put out an urgent appeal for performers to come forward to take part in the musical Kinky Boots, which is planned to be staged at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre next year.

Fewer than six in 10 GP appointments in the Black Country and Staffordshire were held face-to-face after major steps to ease Covid restrictions went ahead, figures reveal.

Council bosses have hailed libraries and the role they have played over the last 18 months.

Four police officers were assaulted while responding to an incident in the West Midlands.

Hundreds of "angry" searches have been made in relation to parking issues in a Black Country city, according to research.

Work to restore a church tower will begin later this month.

People living in a Staffordshire town have been urged to be vigilant following reports of doorstep criminals.

Six dogs died in a house that went up in flames in Bilston.

The leader of South Staffordshire Council has died aged 81 following a short illness.

The Taliban are poised to take Kabul following their lightning advance through the country.

MPs said Britain is facing ‘the biggest single foreign policy disaster since Suez’ as Taliban fighters enter the outskirts of Kabul.

The girlfriend of Wolves star Morgan Gibbs-White says she was "manhandled" while walking to her car following Wolves' match against Leicester on Saturday.

After a dreary year of football that was played behind closed doors, fans were overjoyed to watch their team play once again en masse – despite a narrow loss.

Tributes were paid to a police officer and his three-year-old son who died this week.

Thieves have targeted cars in the Black Country, prompting warnings from police.

West Midlands firefighters are set to return home after helping to battle devastating wildfires in Greece.

An MP has called on West Midlands Police to co-operate with a private investigation into the death of a young man who was killed in a nightclub following complaints from his family that they are being ignored.