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Ms Giorgio-Jones with long dark hair holding a microphone in her right hand and putting her left hand level with her face. She is in front of a purple background.

Singer performs for hospital that saved her life

Musician Izzye has been raising funds for years for Birmingham Children's Hospital to thank staff.

A mugshot of a man in a grey hoodie. He has a buzz cut and is staring into the camera.

Man jailed for string of shop thefts

Lee MacDivitt, 36, carried out more than 25 thefts in Bilston between 1 November and 6 December.

A football stand with red and white panels below a corrugated steel frontage with "Bilston Town Football Club" spelled out in red cut-out lettering.

Football club set to take over ground

Councillors are being asked to transfer responsibility to the club to give it financial security.

Pupils with their back to the camera sit in a classroom. The two nearest have long hair past their shoulders and the nearest one has their hand in the air. A man teaches at the front of the class as they sit behind desks.

School wants more classrooms to cope with demand

Ormiston SWB Academy is preparing for an extra 150 pupils joining in the next school year.

Two men are standing on a building site that has mud on the ground. They are wearing yellow hi-vis jackets and have their thumbs up. There is an orange digger in the background and a large market building.

Improvement work begins on outdoor market site

The £5.2m market project is part of the government's Towns Fund scheme.

A woman with white, blonde hair to her shoulders smiles at the camera while stood on a high street. She wears a blue coat with a beige lanyard around her neck, holding some sort of ID card. The street has an iron bench, temporary marquees for a market and buildings with shops in behind her.

Shaking it up as region's first Reform councillor

A Reform UK councillor and activists talk about the party's recent impact in the West Midlands.

A brown Mastiff dog with green eyes in sat up straight in a garden.

Dog found stabbed searching for forever home

Comet was found with multiple stab wounds in December but is now recovering.

An overgrown plot of land next to a road and a derelict red brick building. There's metal fencing in front of part of the land. At the back is a red brick wall with fencing on top and a tree rising avove it.

Approval for flats above entry to old mineshaft

Councillors approve plans for flats on a vacant plot of land.

The journey's more important than money - Poundland founder

Steven Smith founded Poundland in 1990 and sold the business 16 years later for £250m.