The driver accused of killing a two-week old boy last Easter goes on trial today.

Resolution Foundation warned Rishi Sunak’s measures represented a ‘big but poorly targeted policy package’.

Measures announced by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his spring statement have been met with mixed reactions by organisations in the region.

The dangers young offenders pose to other children and potential victims of crime is not being evaluated well enough by Wolverhampton's Youth Offending Team, HM inspectors have found.

Dudley Hippodrome could be flattened by the end of the year under plans to be considered by councillors tonight.

Ukrainian schoolchildren forced to flee the Russian invasion have given emotional thanks to county residents for their support.

Wolverhampton Council's cabinet has approved plans for a compulsory purchase order to be placed on the city's crumbling former eye infirmary.

Tributes have been paid to Black Country comedy legend Alan "Aynuk" Smith, who has died aged 84.

A state-of-the-art environmental chamber at the University of Wolverhampton has been helping two runners prepare for the world's toughest marathon in the heat of the Sahara.

Two years on from the first UK lockdown, health chiefs across the Black Country and West Birmingham have paid tribute to staff and members of the public.

Nostalgia and the world of the early video rental shops is the focus of an art display in Wolverhampton's Mander Centre.

PTP Training has supported ex-trainee Leighton Roberts into an apprenticeship with Mercia Lifting Gear in Willenhall.

Those on the lowest incomes are sinking further into poverty.

Pupils at a Wolverhampton primary school have been busy using their singing voices to raise vital funds for charity.

Football legends from clubs across the West Midlands will be lacing up their boots for a charity football match to raise money for a Black Country hospice.

Central England Co-op have warned violent attacks on its staff "will not be tolerated" after a woman was left with broken ribs during an assault.

The M6 southbound is closed between Junction 5 and 6 after a major crash.

A further 13 deaths from Covid have been confirmed in the region’s hospitals, official NHS figures show.

The demand came as the third clip featuring Ben Wallace was published on the video sharing giant.

Boris Johnson said the West ‘should not hesitate to go further in strengthening sanctions and providing further defensive military aid to Ukraine’.

Nothing announced in the Chancellor's spring statement will help avoid the "biggest" hit in living standards on record, a Wolverhampton MP has warned.

A Kingswinford company is helping to give the Queen a much-needed lift.

The timing could scarcely have been worse. At a time of soaring petrol and diesel costs, and just four months before the opening of the Commonwealth Games, the entire West Midlands Metro system has been suspended indefinitely after more cracks appear...

Tributes have been paid to an outgoing and much-loved Wolves fan known for his food van outside Molineux who has died aged 53.

Twenty firefighters tackled a blaze at a furniture factory overnight which is thought to have been started deliberately.

A man accused of attempting to kill police officers in West Bromwich told a court that he felt paranoid and anxious due to smoking cannabis.

Copper thieves have caused £250,000 worth of damage at a military cemetery built to honour soldiers killed in the two world wars.

A member of a legendary Black Country comic duo described as the area's "greatest ambassador" has died in hospital after a short illness aged 84.

A lorry driver was left trapped for more than three hours after a crash involving three HGVs on the M6.

A supply teacher from Walsall has been banned from the classroom after hurting a vulnerable pupil.

A council has agreed to reconsider whether to investigate a woman’s complaint about her time as a child in its care after an investigation by the local government and social care ombudsman.

Those who have managed to flee the bloodied port city described it as shattered.

The Office for Budget Responsibility predicts UK inflation will peak at 8.7% in October as the Ukraine conflict compounds the cost of living crisis.

The chief medical officer for England said that the virus was putting pressure on the NHS.

Rishi Sunak said the sanctions imposed on Russia were ‘of unprecedented scale and scope’.

The Ministry of Defence has been supplying thousands of weapons to Ukraine as it battles Russia’s invasion.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says energy efficiency will make a big difference to bills.

For the third consecutive day Scotland has seen a record number of people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19.

A fox which was found wedged under industrial steel netting had to be cut free with bolt cutters.

A new board game to help dementia sufferers understand their new life has been created by University of Wolverhampton.

Two men had to be cut free from a car after an early-hours crash.

Rishi Sunak slashed fuel duty, raised national insurance thresholds and promised a cut in income tax as forecast economic growth was downgraded.

The reduction will be implemented from 6pm on Wednesday and will last until March 2023.

The Labour leader said Boris Johnson was ‘all mouth and no trousers’.

Rishi Sunak has been under pressure to do more to help struggling households deal with surging costs.

Two Walsall councillors have planted trees on a grassy area which had repeatedly been churned up by joyriders.

Oil prices surged immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine due to supply fears, leading to a rise in wholesale costs.

The Chancellor delivered his spring statement to the Commons.

A man is in hospital after a crash involving three lorries during rush hour on the M6.

Plans for Wolverhampton's £55 million Westside development should be redrawn to focus on homes instead of leisure, an MP has said.

A former vets surgery in Oldbury is coming up for auction later this month.

The Office for National Statistics said prices rose across food, clothing and footwear and a range of products and services last month.

Lloyds Banking Group has said it will close 60 bank branches – including two in the region – due to a surge in online banking.

There's still over a week to go to help your favourite school win a share of £12,000 in our 2022 Cash For Schools competition.

Sir Gavin Williamson, MP for South Staffordshire, has visited a local school to talk to the students about climate change and congratulate them on the donations they have collected for Ukraine.

Rishi Sunak is set to vow to ‘stand by’ British families as he sets out further plans to support households facing financial hardship.

A long-standing Walsall councillor and wife of disgraced former authority leader Sean Coughlan has announced she will not be standing for re-election.

ONS figures also show Kensington and Chelsea remains the least affordable place to buy a home, with properties typically costing 36.5 times earnings.

Car dealership Pendragon has warned the Ukraine conflict may further hit new motor supply this year as it revealed a return to annual profit.

A Black Country charity which has supported survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence in the region for the last 30 years has received the backing of one of the area's leading law firms.

People across the Black Country are to be be invited to come forward for their spring booster jab.

Virtual exhibitions, 3D imagery and mobile phone surveys could be used by Walsall residents to engage in the planning process thanks to a £120,000 grant from central government.

A woman is in hospital after a crash at the Wolverhampton junction where two children were killed in a road traffic collision in 2019.

Three thousand more people in the West Midlands are to get jobs in the construction of HS2,it was being announced today.

At the start of 2019, if you’d told anyone that they’d be stuck at home for the best part of two years, unable to meet friends and unable to buy a Dominos pizza, they’d have laughed in your stuffed-crust face.

West Midlands Metro's tram service was suspended on Sunday until "further notice". It is the third time in nine months the network from Wolverhampton to Birmingham has been sidelined.

The Government has intervened in the running of Sandwell Council and appointed commissioners to take charge of the trouble-hit authority.

West Midlands Police needed root and branch reform to ensure fewer women are violently attacked and female victims are treated better by officers, a new report has revealed.

A former church building in West Bromwich will go under the hammer at auction.

The memories of an epic snooker match are still strong for the man who was "lucky enough to pot that little black ball" and will relive them tonight.

The myth of sanctions is that we can somehow penalise such dictatorial regimes as Vladimir Putin’s without inflicting hardship on others. It is a fallacy, of course, and sanctions hurt us just as they hurt others.

Artists across the Black Country are being asked to submit their designs to transform an old container unit into a piece of art.

Boris Romanchenko, 96, was killed during an attack by Russian troops in the city of Kharkiv.

President Joe Biden also warned that Russia could be preparing cyber attacks against the United States.

Sports students at City of Wolverhampton College were put through their paces on the football field when former Wolverhampton Wanderers captain Karl Henry pitched up at the Wellington Road campus.

New data has revealed a “worrying” picture for pupils’ exam performances, headteachers said.

Fleeing civilians in the port city of Mariupol described relentless bombardments and bodies lying in the streets.

It would be a "major embarrassment" to the West Midlands if the Metro tram system were to shut during the Commonwealth this summer, says a senior councillor.

Two buskers from the Black Country have raised £11,000 for a hospital's breast and prostate unit, bringing the total they've raised for the hospital to £29,000.

Kind-hearted families and staff from Tamworth schools are showing “overwhelming generosity of spirit” by donating much-needed items to Ukrainian refugees.

Hairdressing students at City of Wolverhampton College helped to chop off the tresses of a customer and shaved her head in aid of two good causes.

The ruling was handed down at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.

Council bosses have promised to keep the streets of Dudley clean with a spending pledge of £280,000 a year.

A veteran of the Iraq War has been reunited with one of the conflict's most famous helicopters after it arrived ready to be displayed at RAF Cosford.

A self-driving shuttle is taking to the roads, transporting passengers around Birmingham Airport.

The rights of refugees were brought to the forefront in a show of solidarity and togetherness around a city monument.

A reality star helped to officially open a charity shop in Walsall's Old Square Shopping Centre.

Black Country businessman Roy Richardson has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London in a ceremony held at London’s Guildhall.

Halesowen Police Station is still being axed, after a 600-name petition did not force the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner into a U-turn.

The Ministry of Defence criticised the “doctored clips” after several Cabinet ministers were targeted by imposters.

A teenager seriously injured in a crash in Staffordshire remains critically injured in hospital.

The scheme will ensure those who brought the landmark High Court case will see the same level of recompense as others affected by the scandal.

South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir have announced a UK tour of their Grammy-winning album including dates in Wolverhampton and Birmingham .

A £30,000 reward has been offered in the hunt for Tom Kirwan's killers as the young Wolves fan's mother made a heartfelt appeal for information.

The regional carrier will operate up to 530 flights per week across 23 routes.

A Scout group that has been searching for a new home for six years has spoken out after its latest bid proved unsuccessful.

"It's just not acceptable to have this happen again and it's making travel so much harder for me".

The unsolved murder of a Wolverhampton man is today featuring on an episode of Crimewatch in a bid to help solve the case almost a decade on.

A 19-year-old is fighting for his life after a crash in the early hours on Sunday.

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