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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
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
‘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
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
Walsall mayor suspended from Tory party over racist WhatsApp post
Rose Martin has claimed someone hacked her account and posted offending image
‘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
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’
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
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
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
Culture in peril
'Do we really need it?' Council leader questions library service after months of closureThe 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
Coronavirus deaths of two nurses lead to calls for more protection
Two young nurses die as NHS braces for more coronavirus losses
Officials investigate coronavirus hotspot in West Midlands
Charity and police break up UK's largest modern slavery ring
Courts jail eight people from gang that exploited 400 victims trafficked from Poland
London versus …
Read all about it? How local papers' decline is starving communities of newsIn Walsall there used to be dozens of reporters, but they have gone – along with much-needed scrutiny
Other lives
Stewart Greenwell obituaryOther lives: Influential social worker who went on to help plan social care in England and Wales
Beyond the blade
Surge in young knife deaths amid police cuts and 'a climate of fear'England and Wales record 37 deaths so far in 2018 as charity stresses deprivation underlies violence
William Billingham guilty of murdering eight-year-old daughter
Unemployed factory worker stabbed daughter Mylee after threatening her mother
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