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AN OLDBURY man has been kicked out of his council home after turning it into a a crack housea and a drugs dena .

A WOMAN who dumped a Milking Bank man just two days after their wedding told a jury how he savagely lunged at her with a kitchen knife when he went to the house where she was living with her new boyfriend.

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a truck in the Moseley area of Birmingham.

The firm behind moves to build new nuclear reactors near Bristol said up to 800 permanent jobs could be created through the massive project, with thousands more involved in the construction phase.

A MAN who stole more than A 53,000 from a Merry Hill business run by his wife has been jailed for nine months.

Thieves took a 75-year-old widower's car containing his pet dog while he tended his wife's grave.

An 18-year-old man had to be airlifted to hospital after his car crashed into a lamppost in Brierley Hill this weekend.

FREE shuttle buses will transport people from a out of this worlda to Himleya s rocket science themed bonfire and firework spectacular tonight .

A FILM funded with public money and exposed by the Sunday Express for promoting gang violence has been pulled from cinemas after threats of drive-by shootings.

A pub customer disarmed a gangster gunman despite being shot four times, a court heard yesterday.

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A DUDLEY lorry driver who broke and badly slashed a close friend's arm when he savagely attacked him with a samurai sword has been jailed for five years.

NHS Dudleya s Stop Smoking team is celebrating after winning a prestigious national award for the most innovative event for this year's stop smoking campaign.

A MAN has been jailed after being caught on CCTV in Brierley Hill - by the camera he was attempting to steal.

Two men have been taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after separate road accidents in Wolverhampton and Birmingham.

A GANG of armed men burst into a Batley snooker club, beat up the staff and made off with a haul of cash.

The cousin of a renowned poet died after police ran him over, sprayed him with CS gas then beat him, before refusing to call an ambulance, an inquest heard.

A 32-YEAR-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting at a Brierley Hill nightclub.

The NHS has launched a new appeal for people in the West Midlands to donate their organs after research found a huge gap between those who would accept an organ, and those who have agreed to part with one.

The owner of a boat which was involved in a collision where a 19-year-old woman died had only taken delivery of the craft just a few weeks before the tragedy, a court heard.