Sir Gavin Williamson, MP for South Staffordshire, has urged Highways England to let Hollies Poultry Farm in north Staffordshire keep its brown tourist signs.

When two Wolves fans were photographed celebrating a goal last season, little did they know their faces would end up on billboards across the Black Country.

Drivers heading south on the M5 are set to hit traffic this morning after a caravan overturned on the motorway.

Almost 500 students were excluded from school in the Black Country and Staffordshire due to breaching Covid-19 rules, official figures reveal.

Less than two weeks into the summer holidays and unaccompanied children have been banned from entering Tipton's swimming pool..

Drivers on the M6 and M5 can be forgiven if they think they're seeing things next week when the top deck of a Boeing 747 passes by.

Saturday, August 6, marks the fifth anniversary of the tragic death of Ryan Passey.

Rail passengers are being warned of fresh disruption to services because of a planned strike by train drivers in the long-running row over pay and conditions.

M6 Junction 10 works will not be finished until autumn due to delays in manufacturing new bridges after a sub-contractor went into administration.

A major housing development on the former Goodyear site in Wolverhampton will be completed within the next three years, it has been confirmed.

A Black Country CEO has swapped the boardroom for bargains in a TV show debut, due to be aired next week.

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week that was.

During the recent arena tour of Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds, there was a moment of pure magic.

A police appeal has been launched to find 10 people after chaotic scenes erupted at a Stourbridge vs Halesowen Town match .

Homewares retailer Dunelm has gone back to its roots by inviting local businesses to set up their own market stalls inside its Oldbury store.

Men from Wales and Stoke have been ordered to pay more than £2,100 for dumping their cars in Stafford borough.

A new transport technologies education centre is being planned for Brierley Hill as part of a £20 million bid.

A care home for the elderly set to be converted into accommodation for the homeless has baffled West Bromwich residents who argue their safety may be at risk and were not consulted on the decision.

A sports economy event has helped to showcase the region's status as a host for major national and global events.

Another major major chop shop which may be linked to dozens of stolen vehicles has been uncovered in Wolverhampton.

Dudley Council has received almost £4.5 million in government funding to improve borough roads after years of complaints from motorists about potholes.

A charitable group have helped police officers through distribution of care kits during the Commonwealth Games.

A former church official from Dudley was accused of clocking up more flights than globetrotting broadcaster Alan Whicker as he appeared in court charged with defrauding a charity of more than £5 million.

Robbers have stopped two people on Cannock Chase and stolen their bikes in the last 72 hours.

A man has been jailed after he was found guilty of two rapes he committed while on crutches.

The former chancellor is seen in a video telling Tory members of his work as he fights the leadership campaign.

A woman was arrested after a disturbance on a Wolverhampton city centre street.

The only newly-built venue for the Commonwealth Games has still been doing great business more than a week into the Games.

Dedicated volunteers who have been cleaning up a historic Sedgley graveyard have been locked out by Dudley Council.

Talks are under way to reopen a Sandwell sports centre and football pitches which were suddenly closed.

Teenagers have come together to lay wreaths across two ceremonies held in Cannock Chase.

Over 1.4 million tickets have so far been sold for the Games.

A new incentive supported by Tamworth Borough Council to help families source school uniforms for their children for free, helped more than 35 families’.

A group of travellers have set up an unauthorised encampment at a site in Wolverhampton.

The NHS has issued important guidance ahead of next week’s expected heatwave.

A new family-friendly high ropes course has received a great reception during its first week of business.

A huge solar farm stretching over 100 acres could be built close to the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.

Commuters in the West Midlands are switching to cycling to work to help navigate the cost-of-living crisis, research shows.

A new exhibition celebrating a theatre's work with young people in the community has gone on show in Wolverhampton.

An enthusiastic member of the crowd perhaps revealed a bit too much as he cheered on cyclists during yesterday's Commonwealth Games time trial in Sedgley.

Thieves have struck at a second cemetery in Wolverhampton, stealing dozens of memorial plaques.

A pair of artists whose work can only be enjoyed through the lens of a microscope have teamed up to create tiny tributes to Commonwealth Games athletes competing in their native city of Birmingham.

Union members at West Midlands Metro are balloting on whether to take industrial action after members decisively rejected bosses' latest pay offer.

Three men have been jailed after they cropped three puppies’ ears in a banned procedure.

TV and radio presenter Richie Anderson, who hails from Smethwick, is the latest celebrity to be announced for the 2022 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

The Governor of the Bank of England warned that earlier interest rate rises could have brought forward a recession.

Police are appealing for help in finding a missing Wednesbury man.

TK Maxx is hiding 65 gold medal gift cards in its Birmingham Bullring store tomorrow to represent the number of medals won by Team GB in the Commonwealth Games.

A combine harvester was left a burnt-out wreck after catching fire in a field.

There were a record 177 billionaires in the country, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

A disabled Pelsall fundraiser has pedalled his way into the history books by becoming the first ever hand cyclist to complete the Trans Pennine Trail.

St Chad's Church, Boningale, Albrighton is holding a quiet day of reflection on Saturday, September 24.

Teams entering this month's Wolverhampton Krazy Races turned out for the final scrutiny event where the karts are checked before the big day.

A popular garden centre that has been serving customers from Birmingham and the Black Country for seven decades has closed its doors.

Wolverhampton has been named as the place where learner drivers are least likely to pass their test.

Drivers on a busy stretch of the M6 in the West Midlands were hit by delays of up to an hour on Friday morning after two lorries collided.

The much-loved Bull which featured in the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony will remain on display in Birmingham until September, after an uproar that the Bull could be dismantled when the Games conclude.

The average price of a house in the West Midlands has topped £250,000, new figures reveal today.

Police are growing "increasingly concerned" for a missing boy who was last seen in Walsall.

Historic buildings and open spaces in Dudley are in line for a major overhaul as part of a £20 million plan.

Opinion was split between city centre businesses as to whether the cycling time trial that raced through Wolverhampton was a boost for them.

A pop up Ping Pong Parlour has officially opened in Walsall town centre.

A Black Country butcher has reopened the famous Marsh & Baxter butchers shop in Brierley Hill High Street .

A group of Stafford businesspeople are calling for the return of free parking to halt a decline in trade in the town centre.

A city care home team came together to celebrate a special day for one of their centenarian residents.

A former mayor has criticised a council over a huge tree root which is destroying his drive.

Roads up and down the Black Country were brought to a standstill for the once-in-a-lifetime occasion of a Commonwealth Games cycling time trial - and your photos did not disappoint.

Aldi might just be offering the 'job of dreams' according to Facebook users.

A man has been charged with the murder of a 71-year-old Birmingham woman in Barmouth last month.

Armed police descended on a Great Wyrley street after reports of a man with a firearm.

It was a typical Black Country welcome – noisy, enthusiastic and full of humour.

A Black Country butcher has reopened the famous Marsh & Baxter butchers shop in Brierley Hill High Street .

Sutton Coldfield town centre is to host a monthly Farmers Market, rekindling a tradition that dates back more than 700 years in the royal town.

A cycling-mad couple will have one of the best views of the Commonwealth Games Time Trial on Thursday as the route passes their house.

Wednesbury South Councillor Kirat Singh has resigned his seat on Sandwell Council.

The Bank of England has hiked rates to the highest level since the start of 2009.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of schoolboy Ronan Kanda, who was stabbed to death in Wolverhampton.

The streets of the Black Country welcomed the Commonwealth Games on Thursday when the region played host to the Time Trial cycling race.

The recession will wipe 2.1% off gross domestic product and household incomes will fall for two years in a row.

A group of travellers have been ordered to leave a field in Wolverhampton on Friday morning after a visit from police and council officers.

Fire crews have tackled a fire on a grass embankment along the M6 Toll.

The UK city chosen to host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will be selected in a “two-stage process” against requirements that assess the city’s “capacity and capability”, the BBC has said.

More than 30 new apartments will be built on the site of a former Bilston pub which has been torn down after being a target for vandals.

Netball fans across the West Midlands will be able to watch all of Team England’s Commonwealth Games matches with a cocktail in hand at a fancy Birmingham bar.

The next phase of £1m worth of improvement works is set to begin in Brierley Hill on Monday.

An abandoned building that once housed the offices of an organisation that ran a Victorian workhouse is up for sale.

A fourth person has been charged with the murder of schoolboy Ronan Kanda, who was stabbed to death in Wolverhampton.

The crew of a Lancaster bomber plane that crashed during the Second World War in Wednesfield have been immortalised on a new housing development.

The first images of the proposed £20 million Green Innovation Corridor which could re-invigorate Wolverhampton's economy have been released.

Walsall is getting a new resident next week - a 21 foot high inflatable psychedelic Argonaut who will be catching rays in the town for the rest of the summer.

Liz Truss’s plans have been labelled ‘dangerous’ but her supporters insist it is ‘riskier’ not to cut taxes.

An adventurous budgie that escaped through a kitchen window and flew more than three miles has been reunited with his owner.

Volunteers are pulling out all the stops to make this year's Eccleshall Show a success as it makes a welcome return after a two-year hiatus.

The regulator said the change would go “some way to provide the stability needed in the energy market”.

The Gym Group, which has sites in Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Telford and Wolverhampton, reduced its pre-tax loss in the first six months of this year.

Lichfield's MP has urged the city's cathedral to "do God's work" by allowing gay marriages to take place.

The Severn Valley Railway has announced it will temporarily cease its overnight running of services to preserve coal stocks for this year.

A ‘quirky’ old antiques shop in Walsall which has cost the council around £12,000 a year to keep safe for more than a decade could finally be given a new lease of life - as a residential property.

Walsall's equality and inequality lead midwife Carol King-Stephens has enlisted the help of patients to make maternity services more culturally aware and equitable.

Superheroes will be flocking to Langley High Street next weekend for a brand new "cosplay" festival.