A council has been forced to apologise to a disabled woman after failing to collect her bins for more than a month.

More than £2.4million will be spent inspecting thousands of council houses in Sandwell following a damning review.

This was the same week the Knife Angel statue, which was created using 100,000 confiscated knives as a reminder of the impact of knife crime, was unveiled outside Sandwell Council House in Oldbury as ...

Sandwell Council had rejected an initial move to convert the house into a children’s care home in 2023 before allowing plans to convert the home into a six-bed house of multiple occupation (HMO).