Damien Bendall was charged with four counts of murder on Tuesday.

A police investigation has been launched after two gunshots were fired at a car in a Wolverhampton street.

Union workers at the historic lock makers Henry Squire and Sons in Featherstone, near Wolverhampton, will begin strike action next month in a dispute over pay.

Tenpin bowling centre operator Ten Entertainment Group has reported the most successful summer trading period in the group's history.

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A popular music venue which has run as part of Wolverhampton's Civic halls for more than a decade is to remain closed.

Angry residents say they feel ignored by a consultation into plans to build thousands of homes on green belt sites across the region.

Under local plans, councils have put forward potential sites for development, some of which lie on the green belt. Here are some of the major developments currently being considered across our region.

Gourmet meals and lots of walks have helped a Black Country dog to live to a ripe old age.

Campervan showrooms are enjoying record sales, all thanks to a post-lockdown rush for self-drive holidays.

A pensions management firm has been named as the second tenant of a new city office block which houses a government department.

A memorial to servicemen and women who have lost their lives since 1945 is set to be installed at Lane Head, Short Heath, in preparation for an official dedication on October 3.

A Black Country father is set to take on his biggest challenge for a charity close to his heart.

Councillors have launched a probe into a weed killer used to keep roads and pavements looking tidy.

A man accused of beating up a man who later died was previously diagnosed with several mental disorders, a jury has heard.

A company behind several Black Country supermarkets has been told to pay more than £500,000 after some of their premises were infested with pests.

Neath Port Talbot, West Dunbartonshire and Merthyr Tydfil are currently recording the highest rates.

Two new members have been welcomed to Hednesford Town Council by the mayor.

New clinical vehicles offering Covid-19 tests are being rolled out across Staffordshire this week.

Police are warning residents in the Black Country after a spate of catalytic converter thefts in the area.

A cat has been reunited with its family in the Black Country – after it was found 130 miles away having been missing for four months.

The Good Law project claims more than £80 million in contracts for antibody tests were awarded unlawfully.

Angry Labour members walked out of a full council meeting in a dramatic protest in Walsall after accusing the Tories of ‘shaming’ the town.

Two brothers have been convicted of unlawfully killing their younger sibling who was stabbed in the chest after a family feud.

A man has been taken to hospital with burns after a fire at a house.

A Wolverhampton homeowner says he feels lucky to be alive following an explosion outside his house which has left a workman seriously injured.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng insisted he was focused on helping ‘vulnerable’ customers heat their homes.

Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s hit musical School of Rock has broken out of the West End and headed to the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre.

Sporty siblings from a Sutton school enjoyed a dream meeting with an Olympic legend.

A service that cares for people living with a disabilities has been rated inadequate and placed in special measures by inspectors.

A Black Country MP has been promoted in the latest Government reshuffle.

A further 21 coronavirus deaths have been confirmed in the region's hospitals, in the latest figures released by NHS England.

Young pupils in Cannock Chase volunteered to help their community with hands-on support on a conservation project.

More than a quarter of the tyres on a sample of Birmingham’s e-scooters have worn-away tread, a campaigner has claimed.

A multi-million pound care facility has been opened by West Midlands Mayor Andy Street.

Police are searching for a convicted criminal suspected of attacking a police officer.

News of four new tram routes in the West Midlands including Hagley Road got a mixed response from residents.

Residents in a Black Country borough are desperate for housing as properties lie empty across much of the area.

A long-standing private sex shop has had its licence renewed despite a councillor’s “family” objections.

A new drive-thru Costa Coffee shop could be opened on the car park of a Black Country supermarket.

The sun was out, the music was blaring, the crowds were jumping – and everyone's weekend was made at an authentic Black Country festival.

Walsall’s main shopping centre has plummeted in value by more than £8.5 million since it was bought by the council four years ago.

Rent arrears at a Walsall shopping centre shot up by more than £60,000 in just four months, a private report has revealed.

It takes the total returned to HM Revenue and Customs since July 2020 to £1.3 billion.

GPs have come under fire in the media for not offering enough face-to-face appointments.

The pandemic had dropped as low as the 26th leading cause in the summer.

Community leaders and residents have told of their shock after a woman was found stabbed to death in the second suspected murder in Wolverhampton in two days.

A man has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving and attacking an emergency worker after an incident on a major road through the region.

A fundraising campaign has been launched to help secure the future of a church and community centre.

Funerals and crematoria group Dignity conducted fewer funerals in the first six months of its latest financial year.

It comes after Kwasi Kwarteng said there would be no bailout for energy firms that go to the wall amid rising gas prices.

A children's hospice in the West Midlands has reopened its doors for overnight stays for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Frontier Development Capital has successfully exited its investment in a Black Country manufacturer, behind the world’s first condensate filter made from recycled glass.

One of the country’s oldest air pollution control companies is moving into its second century in a new headquarters with help from commercial property agents Siddall Jones.

Police have issued a dispersal order on a Black Country town centre following two violent attacks, including one where a man was hit with a hammer.

Hundreds of West Midlands Police officers missed work as the force's absence rate hit nearly six per cent at the height of the Covid pandemic, new figures reveal.

“It’s been such a long journey and it’s had a massive impact on us a family. It feels like we’ve spent the last 18 months living on a knife edge," says the mother of a man who is struggling with the effects of long Covid.

Schools across the region are gearing up to support the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccination programme for young people aged 12 to 15.

The delicious smell of German sausages, lederhosen-clad hosts and oomptastic live entertainment – welcome to Oktoberfest at Alton Towers.

Prices of wholesale gas have surged 70% since August.

Wolverhampton University has set up a trio of on-campus walk-in clinics to encourage all students and staff to get their coronavirus vaccination.

The first stretch of tram tracks outside Wolverhampton's refurbished railway station have been installed.

The news will be a major boost for airlines such as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

A woman has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a car hit a tree in Stourbridge.

Boris Johnson warned that the gap between what industrialised nations have promised and what they are actually delivering remains ‘vast’.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of two Staffordshire men accused of causing the death of a wheelchair user almost 13 years after he was attacked.

Sutton Coldfield's Empire Cinema has confirmed it could be more than nine months until it reopens again.

Some 1.5 million people will be contacted and encouraged to arrange a top-up jab against Covid-19.

A further 25 deaths have been confirmed in the region's hospitals over the last four days, NHS figures have shown.

A teenage mother-to-be is still in a critical condition in hospital four days after being injured in a crash between a tram and car in Wolverhampton.

A community library has been set up outside a primary school in the Black Country to encourage children to read for fun.

More than 2,000 people and as many as 20 boats took part in the Brownhills Canal Festival which made a welcome return at the weekend.

A woman has been stabbed to death at a house in Wolverhampton.

Quinn Foakes, 15, was jabbed as the vaccination programme is rolled out to three million eligible youngsters across the UK.

Some 15,000 Britons took part in the Novavax clinical trial.

President Biden is expected to make an announcement soon.

A midwife from the Black Country who stepped in to stop a premature baby being born on a holiday flight has been honoured at the Who Cares Wins Awards.

A school has been praised for taking effective action towards the removal of 'special measures' status.

CCTV footage has been released showing the moment a shop worker was threatened with a large sword in the Black Country.

Wolverhampton Wanderers has officially launched a record label – and is the first football club in the UK to do so.

A man who suffered a serious head injury when he was struck by a car had pushed his friend out of the way seconds before he was hit.

A derelict county hall which gained notoriety as a swingers club could be bulldozed to make way for homes under new plans.

A Lichfield school’s community-backed allotment project is set to grow and become a weekly activity for students.

Music on the move is on offer next week when the Lichfield Arts' Folk Train runs on the Cross City Line to Sutton Coldfield.

More than 1,000 people participated in Lichfield Community Games at the weekend trying their hand at a host of sports and activities.

A man has been charged with the murder of a pensioner at a house in the Black Country.

The retail giant said it will be the first supermarket group to remove plastic bags from all bananas sold in its stores.

Concerns have been raised that failing to vaccinate the world will increase the chances of new variants emerging.

The Scottish Government said older residents in care homes are the first to be offered the booster coronavirus vaccine from Monday.

It was a case of the strong arm of the law as six prison staff from HMP Featherstone in Wolverhampton put their weight behind their latest fundraising project to bring in the pounds for a mental health charity.

The falling masonry and peeling paintwork of a famous brickworks. Rusting machinery lying idle in what had once been the workshop of the world.

Two volunteers with learning disabilities have won a special award for their work on a pioneering end of life care and bereavement project at St Giles Hospice.