Fitness fanatics have pledged to cover in excess of 4,000 miles in support of Midlands Air Ambulance Charity’s Airbase Challenge.

The price of cooking oils has gone up 7% and is nearly a quarter more expensive than a year ago.

Former Conservative minister Steve Baker said the electorate was furious with the Prime Minister for not following Government coronavirus rules.

A group of would-be hosts will stage a vigil outside the Home Office calling for an end to “cynical and deadly” delays.

There have been no humanitarian corridors for civilians to escape safely in recent days, ShelterBox has said.

Relatives are posing sharp questions about Moscow’s initial statement that the entire crew was evacuated.

Senior Conservative MPs have also questioned the logic behind the Nationality and Borders Bill.

Neil Adams, who is rearranging his Wigan home for the family, said the Homes for Ukraine scheme has been made ‘as difficult as possible’.

The invaders are attempting to set up a land route between the Donbas region and occupied Crimea, Ukrainian officials said.

More than £10,000 has now been pledged to a fundraising campaign launched by family and friends of a teenage boxer killed in a car crash in Wolverhampton.

A Wolverhampton Asda security guard who witnessed grandfather Martin Latham stabbed to death outside the store has described the dying man's last words to him.

Thousands of mourners gathered at a park to pay their final respects to a talented Wolverhampton boxer who was killed in a crash last weekend.

Stourbridge's shuttle service will restart today after it was taken out of service due to ongoing vehicle maintenance at the end of last month.

The new link road between Wolverhampton and Cannock will destroy historic woodland and sit just 40 metres from residential homes, a parish councillor has complained.

Eligible people in the Black Country and wider region have been reminded to book their spring booster vaccination by health chiefs.

A teenage entrepreneur at the head of a growing Midlands retail empire is recognised in the street for his social media output. How has his market shop in Cannock become the talk of the town, and why do locals love it so?

Queen legend says this new spectacular might be the thing through which people know their music in 300 years’ time,

A couple from Willenhall have completed a 1,736-mile charity drive from Wolverhampton to Land's End and then on to John O'Groats and back again in only 41 hours.

Toby Neal casts his eye on the world of politics.

An array of rare football programmes and memorabilia is up for sale in an online auction.

Hundreds of bikers are getting ready to again honour inspirational teenager Stephen Sutton who raised millions for charity before he died.

Britain is looking to send tanks to ‘backfill’ in Poland so Soviet era T-72s can be released to the Ukrainians.

A female Co-op worker was hit over the head with bottles of weed killer during a violent attack in a shop on Easter Monday.

Seven vans full of essentials for Ukrainian refugees are on the way to the country's border with Poland after a rallying call from a Wolverhampton bikers group.

Two men from Walsall have been charged in connection with a series of keyless car thefts, worth in the region of £100,000.

Firefighters are battling a large grassland fire close to Cannock Chase.

"There's something special about walking out of a record store with a physical item and listening to it."

Athletes from the British Army have helped put the lead venue for the upcoming Commonwealth Games through its paces in a UK-wide competition.

Cannabis plants were destroyed in a house fire in the Black Country on Thursday evening.

A landmark Wolverhampton pub’s plan to extend opening hours has sparked concerns from neighbours and a city councillor that the move could lead to increased noise nuisance.

A van driver has suffered a life-changing leg injury after three vehicles collided near a busy roundabout in Cannock.

An MP has called on council chiefs to "think again" over setting up a temporary transit site next to "one of the most polluted" junctions in Walsall.

Major redevelopment works have started up at a dilapidated former youth club building to transform it into a community centre and church.

It weighs four and a half tonnes, has undertaken 50,000 scans and has now disappeared through a second-floor removable panel.

Prevalence of the virus is still high in much of the country, however.

It is the first time an attempt has been made to estimate the cumulative number of people infected.

Local officials said up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians had been killed by Russian forces.

The warning said Moscow is exploring options for potential online assaults against critical organisations such as the NHS.

Registration for the 40th anniversary Royal Sutton Fun Run closes next Friday.

Sandwell will have its first LGBT+ mayor in its political history, after he was unanimously voted in by councillors.

The previous longest known infection thought to have lasted 335 days.

Margaret Keenan made headlines around the world after receiving the historic first jab in Coventry in December 2020.

The Prime Minister told negotiators to get a free trade agreement done by Diwali, in October.

Friends Stuart Thomas and Neil Spalding have been helping out with the project in Warsaw.

Laura Heath’s trial heard she ‘prioritised her addiction to heroin and crack’ over that of seven-year-old Hakeem Hussain’s welfare.

Photos and video evidence of three fly-tippers have been released by a council in a bid to track them down.

UK ambassador Melinda Simmons will be leading the return.

Wolverhampton Grand's panto star, Tam Ryan, has been named Best Panto Comic at the 2022 UK Pantomime Associate Awards.

The partner of murdered Wednesfield father Nathan Burton is inviting people to a charity football match in his memory.

Police are hunting a phone thief who snatched mobiles from two people after arranging bogus Facebook marketplace sales.

Three people have been arrested in a series of police raids in the West Midlands by officers investigating £1 million of fuel thefts.

The M6 was shut between junctions 6 and 7 after a man was hit by a lorry.

Sutton Coldfield’s fire station is set to ‘go live’ as a Technical Rescue Unit in May.

Police officers are becoming increasingly concerned about an 18-year-old woman who has been missing since Tuesday.

Allies of the Prime Minister have hit out at fellow Conservative MPs calling on him to quit over lockdown violations in Number 10.

A cute dog is taking part in a Three Peaks Challenge with a difference as his owners look to raise funds for club which took the bull terrier under its wing.

Liam Payne has jokingly described himself as a "social chameleon" as he explained his accent in a filmed interview at the Oscars – before forgetting he's from Wolverhampton.

The funeral of a talented teenage boxer killed in a car crash in Wolverhampton will take place today.

People in Stafford will receive a £150 council tax rebate to help with the cost of living crisis from the start of next week, chiefs have said.

Insults were traded by councillors at Sandwell Council House as leader Councillor Kerrie Carmichael survived a motion calling her to be removed.

Central England Co-op saw both sales and profits rise in the year to January 22.

The Secretary of State for Transport has granted consent for a new link road between the M54 and M6.

A Victorian pub near Birmingham city centre, which real ale campaigners have lovingly redecorated, is up for sale for offers in excess of £650,000.

Residents across South Staffordshire will soon receive large blue bags which they will be asked to use for the recycling of paper and cardboard waste.

A shop in Acocks Green is under scrutiny after a ‘quantity of cannabis’ and a large amount of £50 notes were found on the premises.

New “pods” are being installed at Walsall Manor Hospital to help contain outbreaks.

A drama will be brought to life on the squash courts telling the history of the Commonwealth Games.

Hundreds of residents have lost their battle to stop 60 affordable homes being built on a pony paddock on the edge of a beauty spot.

Adrian Chiles has bizarrely revealed he has a urinal in the bathroom of his flat – sitting under a window featuring West Bromwich Albion's crest.

Staffordshire County Council has been asked by an Ombudsman to reconsider a complaint made by a care leaver who said she did not receive enough support when she was pregnant at 15.

Talented photographers from Sutton have been praised after being recognised in a competition held as part of the town’s Shakespeare in Sutton Festival.

A decades-long dispute between a cricket club and neighbouring residents who have been bombarded by hundreds of stray balls has been hit for six after £20,000 was secured for giant nets.

Detective Chief Superintendent Dominic Murphy urged people with first-hand accounts and footage of the conflict to come forward and ‘get justice’.

The 29th National Dwarf Games will be taking place at Aldersley Leisure Village next week.

Punters can enjoy a drink while raising money and a glass to the people of Ukraine at a micropub.

A family is looking to move on after their home was a subject of weeks of police searches for a teenager missing for 23 years.

Labour has been accused of "whipping the public into a frenzy" over partygate, after Tory MPs revealed they were targeted with abusive emails after backing Boris Johnson.

"Although he lost everything, we are just so grateful to still have him here with us. It's been incredibly sad to see the bungalow destroyed - things can be replaced but a life cannot."

Tributes have been paid to a former mayor of Dudley who has died aged 86.

The best of Staffordshire business will be showcased at the House of Commons ahead of a day of celebration.

A popular Sikh festival is set to bring thousands of people to a city centre park.

As engineers race against time to get trouble-hit Metro tram services back in action before the start of the Commonwealth Games the first test on one of the extension lines has gone ahead.

The move will target those ‘commanding the front line’ to commit ‘heinous’ acts in Ukraine, the FCDO said.

A mother of new twins has described making a 100-mile trip to give birth in a city hospital as the best decision she had ever made

A Wolverhampton beggar downed beer, wine and spirits before smoking mamba and stabbing a grandfather to death, a court heard.

A growing pizza chain's latest branch will open in High Street, Dudley, next month creating 15 full and part-time jobs.

A mental health support group is "desperately" looking for somewhere to meet after being locked out of Stourbridge's Talbot Hotel.

As of Monday, some 21,600 Ukrainians had arrived in the UK under the Family Scheme and Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.

Family and friends of a talented teenage boxer killed in a car crash in Wolverhampton have launched a fundraising campaign to help others and keep his memory alive.

The Mayor of Dudley seen how a bottled water company has been working to help people in Ukraine to access clean drinking water.

A van driver has been flown to hospital after he was critically injured in a crash.

A man has been arrested after diesel was siphoned from a lorry parked at a service station in Staffordshire.

Around 200 cannabis plants were recovered at a house which was severely damaged by a fire.

A charity made an average of almost 13 referrals a day to agencies in the Midlands about child abuse and neglect concerns last year, figures show.

One a senior Tory backbencher told the Prime Minister: ‘The gig’s up.’

The Cabinet minister was speaking in The Hague where he is attending the Invictus Games.

The royals toured the Disasters Emergency Committee’s London offices to hear how the £300 million raised so far is being spent.

A man who forced his way into a woman's home and punched her, leaving her with multiple face and head injuries, has been jailed.

Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka arrived in style – and youngsters were squealing with delight at the sight of them.

The Financial Reporting Council also handed a £40,056 fine to John Charlton, who worked on the audit for the corporate finance firm.