West Midlands

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West Midlands

(Placename) (functioning as singular or plural) a metropolitan county of central England, administered since 1986 by the unitary authorities of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, and Coventry. Area: 899 sq km (347 sq miles)

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West′ Mid′lands

a metropolitan county in central England. 2,624,300; 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).

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BUILDING group Keepmoat Homes has appointed a new managing director for the West Midlands.

Keepmoat in Goode hands with new managing director

GOVERNMENT experts have welcomed ambitious proposals to create Britain's latest National Park in the West Midlands.

WELCOME TO BRUMBIA; GOVERNMENT BACKS VISION OF WEST MIDLANDS NATIONAL PARK

Plans for the West Midlands Mayor's office to takeover fire services in the West Midlands appear to have hit the buffers with council leaders expected to block the move.

Plans for West Midlands Mayor to take over fire service hit problem

Emergency services have cordoned off partsof a West Midlands hospital after a patient walked in covered in an unknown 'white powder'.

Walsall Manor incident: Hospital in lockdown over man 'covered in white powder'; Walsall's Manor Hospital has been partly sealed off after a man walked in covered in a mystery 'white powder'

Clash of Cultures?: The Romano-British Period in the West Midlands

THE West Midlands is to receive PS9.6 million to try to end the scandal of rough sleeping in the region.

PS9.6m scheme to take on rough sleeping crisis; WEST MIDLANDS TO BE PILOT AREA FOR 'HOUSING FIRST' PROJECT

Figures from the Office for National Statistic show it is among the names that are more popular in the West Midlands than they are in England and Wales as a whole.

Names more popular here than rest of UK

THE Chief Fire Officer for West Midlands Fire Service resigned yesterday after being arrested on suspicion of making indecent images of children.

Fire chief quits job after arrest in porn probe

THE 10 first prizewinners of a super storage tower (pens, crayons and paints) are Ross Cotton, Yardley, Birmingham; A Mackie, Kingswinford, West Midlands; Claudia Melia, Hall Green, Birmingham; Lorna Percival, Warley, West Midlands; Mrs J Profitt, Walsal l; Mrs J Read, Alcester, Warks; Chelcie Smith, Belbroughton, Nr Stourbridge; Mathew Trow, Bromsgrove, Worcs; I Whitehouse, Great Barr, Birmingham; Rebecca Williams, Bearwood, West Midlands.

Mercury Winners

THE Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, was the guest speaker at the sell-out IOD West Midlands Annual Dinner held at Warwick Castle.