West Midlands Fire Service rushed to the Canalside Industrial Estate of Brettle Lane shortly after 2.30pm yesterday (May 29) after a fire broke out in a commercial building. Over ...

HMS Lancaster had stalked the drug-runner’s boat for more than 24 hours after illegal operations were spotted by the warship’s drones.

An innovative procurement firm that aims to cut one billion hours of administrative work from the construction industry is expanding in the UK. ProcurePro is already overseeing £35 billion of ...

Ashirie Smith was given a minimum of 17 and a half years for the ‘serious, sustained’ attack on Mahir Abdulrahman at HMP Fosse Way.

A FIRE that tore through a derelict pub in Dudley overnight is being treated as an arson incident. West Midlands Fire Service was called to The Crown on Simms Lane in Netherton shortly after 12.30am ...

Schools and the NHS are “not over that hurdle” of unsafe concrete, a minister has said. Catherine McKinnell also said ministers cannot “fix everything overnight” when asked how much of the maintenance ...

Going ahead with welfare reforms will drive more people into homelessness, a number of major charities have warned the Government. Shelter and Crisis are among the signatories to a letter to the Work ...

A New Zealand flag printed with the words “please walk on me” and placed on the floor of an art gallery has once again been packed away following a public outcry, 30 years after protests forced the ...

Four billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025, scientists have said.

Kemi Badenoch has accused the Labour and Reform leaders of asking people to “fund unlimited child support for others” by scrapping the two-child cap. Writing in the Daily Mail, the Tory leader accused ...

An appeal has been launched to help find two teenage girls who have been reported missing from the Dudley area.

A rate-setter at the Bank of England has said he remains “pretty concerned” about the economic outlook as he renewed calls to reduce interest rates further.