A Black Country care home has shut down suddenly.

New images have been published of a missing 16-year-old who has not been seen for two weeks.

Wolverhampton has been left disappointed after the shortlist for the UK City of Culture was unveiled.

There was singing, dancing, and laughter across the Black Country yesterday as people came together to raise money for Comic Relief.

West Midlands Police has shared new photos of the five dogs who will go on to work at the Commonwealth Games, one year after introducing them to the world.

Workers regularly risked their lives jumping in and out of a machine that killed a man at a recycling plant, a court heard.

A motorist was punched in the face by would-be car thieves pretending to be police officers.

An MP has been assured by a minister that the Government will look at electrifying the Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury railway line "as soon as possible".

A woman from a village near Stafford is set to discover whether she's related to dancing brothers Curtis and AJ Pritchard in a new show.

A 27-year-old man with autism has made his dream of working with the police a reality by joining a neighbourhood policing team.

We start by talking about legends. It’s not a word that sits comfortably on Brian Turner’s shoulders. Nor is it one that he’d choose to use.

An academy is set to host a weightlifting championship which will see more than 100 athletes compete.

A charity has launched a new initiative to encourage more young people to become plumbers or electricians after new research found the industry needs double the number of trades apprentices recruited every year or risk crippling shortages.

It's a vending machine without chocolate or fizzy drinks – instead it serves up knowledge.

Students at a city college paid a moving tribute to social care staff through messages of thanks.

The Hollywood power couple previously said they would match up to 30 million dollars in donations to help supply humanitarian aide to refugees.

Dudley Council will waive the fees to close road during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend.

The figures provide further evidence that coronavirus is once again becoming steadily more prevalent.

Vital donations for Cancer Research UK in the Wyre Forest plummeted due to Covid restrictions forcing fundraisers to pull out all the stops this year.

A Sutton Coldfield business has invested in new transport and storage facilities after signing a deal with the British Government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to supply materials to encapsulate nuclear waste.

A man has died after falling from a bridge onto the M6 in the West Midlands.

The West Bromwich Building Society is planning to offer up to 20 homes to support Ukrainian refugees with accommodation in the coming weeks and months.

More than 140,000 life-saving coronavirus jabs have been administered at a vaccine centre in the Black Country which marked its first anniversary last month.

Work is progressing on a £250,000 scheme to restore Brierley Hill’s historic war memorial.

An "unloved" pub which residents feared had served its last pint will reopen in May after a £300,0000 refurbishment.

A new parkrun project is calling for more volunteers to help get the popular national event off the starting line in Tamworth Castle Grounds this summer.

Temporary traffic lights were installed at a busy junction after a roundabout made up of cones led to safety fears, but disappeared again within hours.

Birmingham, Tamworth and Worcester are among the 42 towns and cities bidding to become the new home for Great British Railways.

A schoolboy was rushed to hospital with a head injury after being hit by a car in Dudley.

An appeal has gone out for help locating a man after a incident which saw a police officer dragged down a road with his hand stuck in a window of a car.

A Walsall fan who threw coins at opposition supporters and assaulted two stewards has been fined £100 but will not be banned from matches.

Eight hundred members of staff were fired without notice on Thursday and replaced with cheaper agency workers.

Cash seized from a drug dealer jailed for running a commercial-scale supply operation from his bedroom has been handed to the public purse.

A research centre at a university spearheaded by Sir Lenny Henry has helped shaped ITV's £80 million drive to improve diversity in its programmes.

The Severn Valley Railway will postpone all footplate experiences until the end of May, as part of a drive to conserve coal stocks.

A Labour MP for one of the affected ports called on the Government to force P&O to ‘come up with a different plan’.

The Crown Prosecution Service made the announcement on Friday.

The operator sacked 800 seafarers on Thursday.

British armed forces minister James Heappey said Moscow had failed to take Ukrainian territory for ‘a week or so’.

Concerns have been raised over the safety of a temporary roundabout made out of cones after a crash left a van on its side and its driver in hospital.

Hundreds of thousands of illegal cigarettes have been seized in raids across Staffordshire.

The call came as Vladimir Putin’s forces continued their assaults on the cities of Kyiv and Lviv.

A cancer support centre at a hospital in the Black Country has received an almost £10,000 upgrade to help create a more comfortable area for patients.

The team at a Sutton Coldfield Leisure Centre are getting ready to bid a sad farewell to a 'legendary' lifeguard who has served the community for more than 20 years.

Work has started on a new housing estate and health centre in Wednesbury.

Stafford MP Theo Clarke has announced she is expecting her first child.

A former training centre in Wolverhampton could be demolished under plans to build a new health centre and homes.

Registration for the Royal Sutton Fun Run is officially under way with organisers saying this year’s event is an opportunity for celebration and reflection.

It comes amid 29 ongoing investigations into due impartiality.

People have been issued a “use it or lose it” warning over bonfire events in Walsall which are set to return after three years.

A plan to create a poignant memorial garden and trail to remember Walsall people who lost their lives to Covid has been given the go-ahead.

A former member of Wolverhampton’s Central Youth Theatre has secured a starring role in the BBC’s reboot of Waterloo Road.

Police seized £1 million worth of illegal drugs and cash during a major operation to crack down on County Lines drug dealers.

Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is bringing about a humanitarian crisis on a scale not seen since the end of the Second World War, an MP has said.

An internationally renowned glass artist and scholar has been announced as the first visiting exhibitor at Stourbridge Glass Museum when it opens next month.

Country fans in the Black Country will be able to sample at taste of Nashville when a show rocks up at Brierley Hill Civic Hall.

A Staffordshire billionaire has offered to open his home to a family of Ukrainian refugees fleeing their country as he urged other wealthy people to do the same.

A car dealer has been fined after selling a Subaru for more than £3,000 on Gumtree despite it not being safe to drive.

A Kidderminster Victorian country manor hotel will soon be able to offer guests the use of a new £350,000 exclusive three-bedroom lodge.

A former marine turned window salesman is driving to Poland to deliver supplies to help Ukrainian refugees.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that American officials were evaluating potential war crimes.

Bosses said the pub group is in a strong position, with ‘a full complement of staff’ and ‘fully stocked’.

The parent company has stopped supporting the supply chain, operations and marketing for Burger King in the country.

Covid disruption meant 2022 test results ‘could not be compared, either with previous years or with other schools’, the NAHT union said.

Pension scheme members have collectively lost £18 million of redress because advisers have gone bust and there are compensation limits, the NAO says.

However, concerns have been raised about red tape, safeguarding and resourcing.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said lifting the requirements would allow ‘greater freedom in time for Easter’ to go abroad.

Charity said findings reveal ‘shocking shortfalls’ as 86% claim their training had not given them enough information to meet deaf pupils’ needs.

The company operates four routes: Dover to Calais; Hull to Rotterdam; Liverpool to Dublin; and Cairnryan, Scotland, to Larne, Northern Ireland.

Runners are getting ready for Stafford's Half Marathon this Sunday.

A young woman is critically injured in hospital after a crash allegedly involving a drink-driver who fled the scene.

A security guard described how his shift turned from a routine day into a violent scene within a split second.

The wife of Sean Coughlan has said she is washing her hands of him after the disgraced former Walsall Council leader was sentenced for child sex offences.

Determined residents have launched a campaign to get a historic Walsall pub reopened and developed into a community hub.

A plaque to commemorate three brothers who all became mayor of the same city and were known for their philanthropy has been unveiled.

An artist's exhibition exploring the Caribbean's history of slavery and enslaved women will be on display at the New Art Gallery Walsall until June.

Drivers faced delays on the M6 this evening after a car caught fire between Junctions 12 and 13.

Hospital admissions are still highest among the over-85s.

There were lights, flying performers and a feeling of joy as the first performance of a half-year-long festival took place.

"I don’t scare very easily but for the first time, I was petrified. I spoke to my wife on the phone, told her that if anything happened, to tell the girls I was a good man."

A doorman and a policeman have been presented with certificates in recognition for saving a man's life.

On average, 2% of students dropped out across Russell Group universities.

Refugees At Home co-founder Sara Nathan said the ‘detail is sketchy’ and she did not know what safeguards were being put in place.

Neighbours have objected to plans for two houses on the site of one as the design is “out of character with the area”.

A woman received advanced life support after suffering life-threatening injuries when a car crashed into a lamppost.

A shop has had its licence revoked after officers found 12 bottles of fake Yellow Tail wine – the latest Birmingham store to be caught out.

It is the latest sign that the prevalence of Covid-19 is growing once again.

Some mortgage holders may be able to save thousands of pounds by shopping around, experts said.

The Government has suggested it would be “impractical” to set a time limit on how much work MPs could undertake outside of Parliament in second jobs.

A former Black Country MP has apologised to an ex-aide of Jeremy Corbyn over a newspaper column in which he branded her an anti-semitic racist.

The magic of a Lewis Carroll classic will be given a new look at a Staffordshire shopping centre.

The magic of storytelling came to life for 900 children in Wolverhampton when beloved children's author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Lydia Monks visited the city for a special event.

Three people were injured in a seven-vehicle pile-up which caused long delays on the M6.

Schools within Birmingham have sourced gas from a Russian energy company, as the city council now seeks to trawl through all its major contracts for Russian-linked businesses.

Birmingham Children's Hospital will provide expert cancer care to Ukrainian children who were flown to the UK on Sunday night.

A schoolboy stabbed in Stourbridge remains in a critical condition two days on from the attack.

Wolves midfielder Luke Cundle has made a special visit to Wolverhampton College to discuss his career so far with around 50 students.

More car-free school streets, 20mph zones and ward allocations are some of the new ways Clean Air Zone revenues are set to be used next.

A hair and beauty salon is set to open in a former doctors’ surgery in South Staffordshire.

A Birmingham councillor has refused to apologise over a tweet alleging support for Russia Today, the Russian-backed news corporation now under investigation by Ofcom.