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August 2024

  • Technicians take water samples from the canal

    ‘It could be months or years’: Walsall canal faces long road back to health after chemical spill

    Charity is considering removing some of the water and there is also concern over the sediment on the canal floor
  • Two workers in hi-vis clothing walk past the polluted Walsall canal.

    About 90kg of dead fish removed from Walsall canal after sodium cyanide leak

    Environmental charity fears ‘the aquatic ecosystem will have been devastated or lost’ after chemical spill last week
  • Canal lock and towpath

    Watchdog investigates ‘unacceptable’ cyanide spill in Walsall canal

    Waterways trust boss calls incident ‘infuriating’ as Environment Agency investigates metal finishing firm

February 2024

  • Lara Mason with her Taylor Swift cake

    Baker’s version: UK woman creates lifesize Taylor Swift cake for Super Bowl

    Cake depicts Swift wearing a sweatshirt of the Kansas City Chiefs – her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s team

November 2023

  • Signs outside the Walsall Manor Hospital, part of the Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust, in the West Midlands.

    Walsall trust failed man with HIV, ombudsman finds

    ‘It’s just really sad that I don’t think to this day… there is a willingness to change,’ says former patient

September 2023

  • Valmae Hassall, one of the shoppers on the final day of trading at Wilko in Brownhills

    ‘You could get everything here’: Wilko customers make final shopping trip as closures begin

    Wilko in Brownhills has final trading day after retailer went into administration with the loss of 12,000 jobs

March 2023

  • National Express buses at Birmingham central bus garage

    National Express bus drivers in West Midlands vote to strike over pay

    Strike begins 16 March, after company reports underlying pre-tax profit of nearly £146m for last year

June 2022

  • Tory rosette

    Walsall mayor suspended from Tory party over racist WhatsApp post

    Rose Martin has claimed someone hacked her account and posted offending image

April 2022

  • Daniel Challis with his mother, Sarah

    ‘I want a voice that fits me’: teenager’s quest for communication aid with Walsall accent

    Daniel Challis, who has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak, is auditioning people to provide his new voice

February 2022

  • Walsall town centre.

    West Midlands earthquake of 2.8 magnitude rattles Walsall

    Residents say quake shook their homes and was like wardrobe falling over or ‘explosion against the window’

May 2021

  • Masks indoors and social distancing at Birmingham’s Green Lane Masjid

    Eid al-Fitr celebrations muted as UK mosques adapt to pandemic

    Services marking end of Ramadan, in Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff, guided by safety precautions

April 2021

  • Sheila Kerai

    Walsall NHS trust scholarship awards colleague of nurse who died of Covid

    First to receive nurse training funds set up in memory of Areema Nasreen is support worker Sheila Kerai

March 2021

  • Siddak Singh Jhamat and his fossil

    Boy finds fossil up to 500m years old in his West Midlands garden

    Sid Jhamat, six, from Walsall came upon a horn coral while using his fossil-hunting kit to find worms

December 2020

  • The modern entrance to Walsall Library and Museum in Walsall, West Midlands<br>F0MJA0 The modern entrance to Walsall Library and Museum in Walsall, West Midlands

    Culture in peril
    'Do we really need it?' Council leader questions library service after months of closure

    The West Midlands borough’s seven libraries have not resumed service after the November lockdown and Mike Bird has provoked fury by suggesting they may not

April 2020

  • Ruth May, the chief nursing officer for England

    Coronavirus deaths of two nurses lead to calls for more protection

  • Aimee O’Rourke an NHS nurse who died from Covid19

    Two young nurses die as NHS braces for more coronavirus losses

March 2020

  • Matt Hancock

    Officials investigate coronavirus hotspot in West Midlands

  • Bruce George in 2007.

    Bruce George obituary

July 2019

  • Ignacy Brzezinski, a senior figure in the gang

    Charity and police break up UK's largest modern slavery ring

    Courts jail eight people from gang that exploited 400 victims trafficked from Poland

May 2019

  • The continued presence of the Evening Standard, and the fact that most national media groups are based in London, means the decline in local journalism is felt most keenly outside the south-east.

    London versus …
    Read all about it? How local papers' decline is starving communities of news

    In Walsall there used to be dozens of reporters, but they have gone – along with much-needed scrutiny
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