West Midlands Mayor Andy Street will presenting two cheques for a total of £10,000 during a visit to Walsall’s Leather Skills Centre tomorrow.

Calls have been made for a permanent tribute to a "very strong and independent" long-serving councillor in Wolverhampton who died earlier this year.

Nearly half a million pounds has been secured to support homelessness prevention work across Dudley over the next three years.

Musicians from Poland, France, England, Scotland and Wales will be heading to Birmingham International Tattoo this weekend.

Residents in Dudley and South Staffordshire are currently without water supply or are experiencing low pressure.

An MP has called on council chiefs to "start listening" and re-instate a meeting to scrutinise the Black Country Plan originally set to be held later this month.

Cumberland ale will now be brewed in Staffordshire with the closure of a brewery in the Lake District.

Free training footballs are being given away at a Great Barr pub on Saturday.

Lickey Hills, Woodgate Valley Country Park and Sutton Park may start charging all visitors to park their cars there, it has been revealed.

Police remain at the scene of an ongoing incident at a property in Tamworth.

Armed police have responded to reports of "a man with a crossbow" in a siege in Tamworth.

Independent hospitals group Spire Healthcare has seen revenue exceed pre-pandemic levels in the first six months of this year.

Self storage group Safestore saw revenue rise by 14.9 per cent to £54.7 million in the third quarter of its financial year to the end of July.

A much loved former pub and Chinese restaurant in Great Barr which has fallen into poor condition is to be torn down.

Royal Mail workers will be launching a fresh strike today and Friday in a dispute over pay, which threatens disruption to deliveries.

West Midlands Police said a teenager has been seriously injured after being attacked with a machete.

Bridgnorth Town Councillors have assured people in the town Christmas will go ahead this year after announcing details of their lights switch on event.

Fire crews urge people to avoid an area as they deal with a blaze at a commercial premises.

Keep on running... Edward Molyneaux has set himself a marathon target as he seeks to win a place in the Guinness Book of Records – or, at least, half of one.

Volunteers from the National Citizen Service came together last month to renovate the toddler area at Cannock Park.

Work has started on removing asbestos from a school in Wolverhampton after it was discovered whilst light fittings were being replaced.

Weather and signalling issues are causing havoc on train lines across the Black Country.

A cake shop where mouse activity was found has been fined thousands of pounds.

Residents whose homes at risk of flooding are calling for work to be carried out to repair old drains near the properties.

Hospital leaders have been called on to ignore distractions in Westminster and continue to focus on healthcare needs of people in part of the Black Country.

Mobile phone signal boosters are set to be installed at an upcoming super hospital for the Black Country amid the risk of it becoming a "blackspot" for coverage.

Eddie Hughes has revealed he asked not to be considered for a ministerial position in Liz Truss's administration so he can focus on constituency work.

Professional eater Randy Santel will be in the West Midlands next week for a series of food challenges.

House prices in the West Midlands have risen by 13.5 per cent in the last year, new figures show.

House prices are continuing to rise, according to new figures. As two separate stories in today's newspaper show, some will view that rise with optimism, while others will be pessimistic.

The next steps towards a permanent memorial to Caribbean servicemen and women have been taken at the nation's place of remembrance.

Wolverhampton Council is set to triple its budget for consultants on regeneration projects to £1million over the next year.

Darts stars will step up to the oche to take on fans at a charity event in the Black Country next week.

The Mayor of Wolverhampton is set to stand down as a councillor next year.

All lanes have been reopened following a collision which caused 40 minute this evening.

More train services between the West Midlands and London are an “absolute priority” – and rail firm Avanti may lose its contract.

Movie theatre chain Cineworld has filed for bankruptcy in the US as the debt-laden business seeks time to restructure.

Weekly shopping trips at a Smethwick supermarket are becoming 'impractical' due to a lack of trolleys at the store.

The most expensive streets in the Black Country and Staffordshire have been revealed.

The owners of a Wolverhampton nursery have been left devastated after a car ploughed through their nursery's fence just one day after opening.

An 18-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a police officer.

A woman spat and shouted abuse at a train conductor after missing a train.

Train passengers on services between Lichfield and Birmingham are facing delays after a woman was spotted trespassing near the track.

Carol singing and yuletide characters will be among the festive treats at the Black Country Living Museum.

A former bingo hall in Wolverhampton is to be converted into a workshop for the servicing of commercial and electric vehicles.

A gunshot has been fired at a car in Halesowen, with police believing the shot was taken from another car which "which drove off aggressively afterwards."

A man died following a 'medical emergency' in Brierley Hill.

A Canadian man has gone viral on TikTok after he shared videos adjusting to life in the West Midlands and explores the Black Country.

Two men have been charged with drug offences following separate stop-and-searches in Cannock.

Fancy bagging a Black Country bargain at a property auction?

The University of Wolverhampton has been removed as a sponsor of the schools academies trust it launched.

A group of animal rights protesters who were arrested after holes were drilled into around 200 tyres at a milk distribution centre have been released on bail.

Work is set to get underway on the resurfacing and widening of a section of canal towpath in Kidderminster.

A judge set a new trial date of July 31 next year at a short hearing at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday.

Almost 50 homes in Walsall were left without power in the early hours of the morning after a suspected blown fuse on the network.

Pat McFadden said Britain needs a new government and not a change of Tory Prime Minister in order to tackle the mounting challenges it faces.

Liz Truss led the first meeting of her Cabinet on Wednesday before her Prime Minister’s Questions debut in the Commons.

Wendy Morton MP has been named the new Chief Whip in Liz Truss's government.

Children aged between four and five who are starting school will be offered the meals from this month onwards.

Poundland is extending its £1 price range at more than 800 UK stores as it aims to help customers through the cost of living crisis.

The retail group told shareholders on Wednesday that total revenues grew by 9.2% over the 20 weeks to August 19.

There is no doubt that Boris Johnson feels wronged. The former Prime Minister believes he was unfairly ousted from Number 10 and it is clear that he feels he has unfinished business.

Academics and higher education staff across the Black Country are voting today (Wednesday) for industrial action.

The director of a dessert shop in Lye has been fined over £5,000 after pleading guilty to breaching food and hygiene safety standards.

Students from a Stafford school were handed a rare chance to pay homage to missing soldiers from the First World War when they performed under the arches of the Menin Gate after the Last Post was sounded.

The latest in a line of charity events which have so far raised over £12,000 for a Dudley hospital this year will take place next week.

11 talented young dancers from Cannock and Wolverhampton are taking to the stage as part of the cast of the English Youth Ballet's Swan Lake.

West Midlands firefighters were on the other end of a rescue mission when they were dealt a blow to their fundraising efforts before they’d even got started.

The outlook is a gloomy one for people taking in the news of who the new Prime Minister is.

Furious residents living next to a toxic waste plant where a blaze erupted after a thunderstorm are calling to be moved.

Ladies from Staffordshire Women's Institutes got a crash course on climate change at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) near Norbury Junction.

A brand new picture of Mary and Jesus has been commissioned by Pleck's St John's Church.

Rat droppings were found near stored food at a Wolverhampton takeaway which has been handed a zero-out-of-five hygiene rating in its latest inspection.

Music lovers gathered in their thousands on Saturday to enjoy an evening of music in a Staffordshire park.

Drinkers will be in heaven next weekend when the Beer Central Festival returns to Digbeth for its third year.

Dramatic footage showing a car crashing into a lorry and overturning on a busy road as part of an appeal for people not to drink and drive.

A new Restaurant Hub is set to come to a Wolverhampton supermarket this month featuring some of the most-recognisable names from the high street.

Plans to build a new technology learning centre on the site of a recently-demolished Wolverhampton primary school will go before city council bosses next week.

Two companies at the centre of concerns around Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) transport in Sandwell have been handed contracts, chiefs have said.

Festive plans for Birmingham are being “closely monitored” as gas and electric prices are set to soar, with Birmingham City Council unable to confirm that the Christmas light switch on and other festive events wouldn’t be affected.

A day care nursery in Wolverhampton has been rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted bosses following a recent inspection.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a police patrol car was hit by a 'stolen' transit van following a rush-hour police chase on the M6.

Everyone's heard of the three-second rule whereby it's generally thought to be okay to eat food that's been dropped on the floor if you pick it up within three seconds.

Brand new fencing technology which uses 98 per cent less CO2 than previous manufacture methods has been unveiled in Tipton.

An inspiring Rowley Regis schoolboy has written a book for primary school children showing to encourage physical activity and eating healthy food.

A woman who relied on home care was able to have the holiday of her dreams with her husband thanks to her care provider, before she unexpectedly passed away.

Conservative Party leader Liz Truss has been appointed Prime Minister after meeting the Queen and still has a busy day ahead finalising her Cabinet.

A union boss has warned that firefighters in the region are being forced into using food banks, as it emerged that they are to be balloted for strike action over pay.

A Walsall nursery is "proud" to have achieved an 'outstanding' Ofsted rating for the third time.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested following a sexual assault in Stafford on Sunday.

A person has been taken into custody after being caught on infra-red camera trying to break into a house.

A group of animal rights protesters have been arrested after holes were drilled into around 200 tyres at a milk distribution centre.

A pensioner was left with a broken nose and a fractured eye socket after a harrowing attack on St Georges Parade in Wolverhampton.

Her first priority will be producing a plan to help households and businesses facing crippling energy costs.

Once built, Birmingham HS2 Interchange station will be one of the world’s “most sustainable” railway stations.

Fire crews helped free three drivers stuck in flood water in the Stourbridge area.

The vast and varied book collection of an icon and trailblazer of women's education is set to go under the hammer.

Repair work has started on a notorious pothole-plagued stretch of the A449 between Wolverhampton and Wombourne after concerns were raised over its condition.

The highly-anticipated £35 million West Midlands Metro extension in Wolverhampton will open this autumn after it was delayed earlier this year, chiefs have said.

Truss must ‘deliver’ energy bills help for homes and businesses - West Midlands mayor