West Midlands County, England News

The Queen's Head remains one of the most popular and authentic public houses in the Black Country of the West Midlands.

VETERAN Irish duo Foster and Allen provided some suitable half-time entertainment at Coventry City's soggy Ricoh Arena with their rendition of Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore.

A 31-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with producing cannabis after police raided an empty Brierley Hill nail bar to find more than 500 plants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds inside.

GUNMEN have opened fire on the home of a former Coventry City Council official in Indonesia.

A 26-YEAR-old Dudley man caught with over A 5,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis when police raided a Netherton flat has been jailed for three and a half years.

RETAIL business bosses were commended for their efforts to cut crime in the borougha s high streets and shopping centres.

THE FRAGILE truce between the Conservative Party's two factions on Europe was shattered yesterday when nine former MPs and Euro MPs attacked William Hague's hardline policy.

Smoking a shisha pipe is as bad for people as smoking tobacco, the Department of Health and the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre has found.

APPROXIMATELY 40 people were evacuated from a house fire in Oldbury last night. Fire crews from Cradley Heath and Smethwick were called to the severe blaze at a three storey mid terrace town house in Crusader Close around 8.30pm. Fire fighters evacuated between 30 and 40 people from the scene as they tackled the blaze which had damaged 25 per cent ...

Up to three nuclear reactors and as many as four cooling towers as high as 200 metres could be built for a new atomic power station next to the Severn estuary.

Chocolate moves down the production line at the Cadburys factory in Birmingham, England.

POLICE are re-appealing for information about the death of a Kingstanding man who was shot and killed seven years ago this week.

The carer and close friend of Councillor Bill Thomas, the former leader of Sandwell Council, stole money off him to pay off drug dealers.

A VIOLENT burglar has brazenly walked into court to ask for his driving licence back less than three years after being jailed for spearing a Bedworth policeman with a crowbar.

Following the smash success of its 10th annual season, Micaya's San Francisco Hip Hop Dancefest breaks new ground in the 11th season with an awe-inspiring collection of prominent dance companies from around the world.

A group of tourists, including a West Midlands couple, has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions.

A group of British tourists has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions, it was revealed.

The Cadbury offices, Bournville Place, in Birmingham England. British candy maker Cadbury PLC rejected a renewed 9.8 billion pound hostile bid from Kraft Foods Inc.

Police have issued a photograph of the injuries sustained by a man who was attacked by teenagers in Coventry.

West Midlands Police are considering whether to respond to concerns raised by Birmingham's new owners over alleged financial irregularities.