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AN OFFICE was gutted in a suspected arson blaze.

Smoke billowed for miles around Wolverhampton’s Parkside Industrial Estate, in Hickman Avenue, at around 2am yesterday as the fire ravaged the offices of RP Hardware.Read

Architect of troubled Walsall arts centre to have his say

THE architect of controversial Midland arts centre The Public is set to return to the £79 million venue.Read

Old soldier let off parking fine

AN old soldier given a parking ticket as he paid his respects at Walsall’s Remembrance Day Service has been let off the booking but called on organisers to avoid a similar “fiasco” next year.Read

Ex-Baggies striker Hartson faces more chemo in cancer fight

BATTLING former West Bromwich Albion striker John Hartson today revealed he could be facing a new round of chemotherapy in his fight with testicular cancer.Read

Wednesbury deaf man targeted by burglars

BURGLARS targeted a 92-year-old deaf man as he sat in his Wednesbury home.Read

Midland schoolboy injured after being hit by car on way home from lessons

A SCHOOLBOY was seriously injured when he was in collision with a car in Sandwell as children made their way home after lessons.Read

Service-users in bonus risk

PAY-related incentive schemes for Birmingham Council workers could endanger service-users, senior civil servants told an employment tribunal.Read

Asylum seeker who exposed himself to female paramedics in Yardley jailed for 12 months

A 27-YEAR-old asylum seeker who exposed himself to female paramedics as they were taking him to Selly Oak Hospital has been jailed for 12 months.Read

£23m bonanza for swimmers

SWIMMERS in the Black Country could be set for two new pools in a £23 million building bonanza, it emerged today.Read

Just wild for nature

A TROUBLED former kitchen garden in the Black Country will go wild thanks to a £50,000 makeover.Read

Conman sent packing by Black Country woman's ID demand

A BOGUS official who tried to trick his way into the home of a Black Country woman was refused entry after she demanded to see his ID.Read

Tyson makes his Midland audience go the distance

FANS of volatile boxer ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson were kept waiting for an incredible FOUR hours at a Midland event in his honour.Read

Man and woman jailed after Cradley Heath teenager threatened with pizza cutter

A BLACK Country man and woman have been sent to prison for nearly eight years after a teenager was threatened with a pizza cutter before being frogmarched to a post office to withdraw money from his account.Read

Tettenhall crash man is named

A MAN who died after the car he was in crashed into a tree has today been named as Wolverhampton 25-year-old Liam Turner.Read

Four injured as bus and car collide in Walsall

FOUR people were taken to hospital after a car and a bus crashed in Walsall.Read

Jobless hike in West Bromwich West sees area top league

WEST Bromwich West suffered the highest rise in unemployment claims over the last year in England, according to a worrying new report published today by the Campaign to End Child Poverty.Read

Walsall pervert caught with 1,800 indecent images claimed he was hunting for internet paedophiles

A PERVERT who claimed to be hunting internet paedophiles has avoided a jail term after he was caught with more than 1,800 indecent images of children.Read

Brownhills teaching assistant to appeal against jail term over filming young girls in the bath

CONVICTED Black Country pervert Rosemary Foxall will be appealing against her two-and-a-half-year jail sentence days before Christmas, it was revealed today.Read

Soldiers back from a six-month stint in Afghanistan to be granted the freedom of Sandwell

SOLDIERS who returned from a six-month stint in Afghanistan in September are to be granted the freedom of Sandwell under new council proposals.Read

Campaigners losing their fight to save Langley branch of Barclays

THE future of a “lifeline” branch of Barclays in the Black Country today remains bleak – despite a 1,000-signature petition calling for the bank to stay open.Read

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