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
MIDLAND-born rocker Robert Plant was officially recognised for his outstanding contribution to music at a major awards bash that also saw Midlands greats The Specials come in for praise.Read
MIDLAND-born rocker Robert Plant was officially recognised for his outstanding contribution to music at a major awards bash that also saw Midlands greats The Specials come in for praise.Read
A COWBOY roofer from Birmingham who conned a Sandwell pensioner into paying thousands of pounds for unnecessary work to his home has avoided a prison sentence.Read
LITTLE Amun Ali’s chances of surviving past his 11th birthday are today looking a whole lot brighter after more than 100 donors turned up at a special donor clinic.Read
A MIDLAND man whose fingerprints were found on a package containing £1,630-worth of cocaine and crack cocaine has been jailed for five years and nine months.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.
