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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chris is a general news reporter covering Kings Norton and Brandwood. His journalism training was carried out near his home town of Carmarthen, in South Wales, where he worked on the Llanelli Star and South Wales Evening Post newspapers.
