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Diwali, the festival of lights, will be celebrated in Wolverhampton at a free event on Saturday 23 October.

This month Peakes Travel Elite picked up another prestigious award to add to their growing collection, which includes being listed as a top 50 travel agency in the UK and Ireland. They were awarded a ‘Travel Weekly Agent Achievement Award’ at a glittering awards ceremony in London, hosted by comedian Tom Allen and Travel Weekly editor-in-chief Lucy Huxley.

Car parks in Wednesfield are to be named in honour of two well-loved local residents under a community-led approach to celebrating their lives and contributions to the village.

A Birmingham butcher's was ordered to pay £17,181 after being pleading guilty to using a band saw without a safety guard, at Birmingham Magistrates Court on Wednesday (13 October 2021).

Wolverhampton’s popular Phoenix Park has today joined four other city beauty spots in being recognised as one of the very best green spaces in the world.

The winners for the third round of the You Matter Communities Community Fund have been announced.

City of Wolverhampton Council is set to start the process of appointing a contractor to construct a new £8.1million technical centre as part of its City Learning Quarter vision.

City of Wolverhampton Council is set to launch a new £3million programme to boost youth employment in the city.

The terror suspect held on suspicion of murdering Sir David Amess is named Ali Harbi Ali, Sky News understands.

Saturday in Southend is quiet, and lacking in the usual buzz of a seaside town on a weekend.

US real estate heir Robert Durst has tested positive for COVID-19 and is on a ventilator in hospital - days after being sentenced to life in prison for murdering a friend in 2000.

The backlog of cargo ships at the busiest port complex in the US - images of which have come to define the global supply chain crisis - is unlikely to return to normal before next summer.

A man who was 13 when he killed a four-year-old boy has been granted parole.

Eighteen people have died from alcohol poisoning in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

The latest trailer has been released for The Batman, which stars British actor Robert Pattinson as the dark and vengeful protagonist.

Jaws is one of the cinematic greats.

The man behind the theme songs for TV shows Grange Hill and Countdown has died at the age of 84.

The Prince of Wales has spoken of how proud he is of Prince William ahead of the first Earthshot award ceremony - reaffirming their joint father and son "commitment to the environment" and "restoring harmony between nature, people and planet".

The terror suspect held on suspicion of murdering Sir David Amess is named Ali Harbi Ali, Sky News understands.

Saturday in Southend is quiet, and lacking in the usual buzz of a seaside town on a weekend.

The UK has recorded a further 148 COVID-related deaths and 43,423 new cases in the latest 24-hour reporting period, government figures show.

A 32-year-old man has been charged with impersonating a police officer and sexual offences over the alleged kidnap of a teenage girl.

The man behind the theme songs for TV shows Grange Hill and Countdown has died at the age of 84.

The Prince of Wales has spoken of how proud he is of Prince William ahead of the first Earthshot award ceremony - reaffirming their joint father and son "commitment to the environment" and "restoring harmony between nature, people and planet".

Adele's album 21 is the best-selling record by a woman in the UK.

Matt Hancock's new job offer from the United Nations helping African economies recover from the coronavirus pandemic has been withdrawn.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost her latest appeal against her sentence in Iran, meaning she could be sent back to prison "at any time", with the foreign secretary condemning the latest move by Iranian forces.

A terminally ill man who is planning to travel to Switzerland to end his life within weeks has accused legislators of failing people on assisted dying laws.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost her latest appeal against her sentence in Iran, meaning she could be sent back to prison "at any time", with the foreign secretary condemning the latest move by Iranian forces.

The backlog of cargo ships at the busiest port complex in the US - images of which have come to define the global supply chain crisis - is unlikely to return to normal before next summer.

A man who was 13 when he killed a four-year-old boy has been granted parole.

Five victims of a bow and arrow attack in Norway have been named as authorities in the country announced an independent investigation into the actions of police will take place.

US real estate heir Robert Durst has tested positive for COVID-19 and is on a ventilator in hospital - days after being sentenced to life in prison for murdering a friend in 2000.

Eighteen people have died from alcohol poisoning in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in southern Afghanistan that killed at least 47 people.

The US has promised condolence payments to the relatives of 10 civilians killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan.

The killing of five people in a bow and arrow attack in Norway may have been triggered by the suspect's illness, police have said.

NASA has launched a probe into space that will fly to a 'swarm' of asteroids orbiting the sun for the first time to look into the origins of the solar system.

The latest trailer has been released for The Batman, which stars British actor Robert Pattinson as the dark and vengeful protagonist.

Jaws is one of the cinematic greats.

The man behind the theme songs for TV shows Grange Hill and Countdown has died at the age of 84.

A last-minute deal has been reached to prevent a strike of almost 60,000 film and TV workers in the US.

Adele's album 21 is the best-selling record by a woman in the UK.

Paul Pogba has declared something needs to change at Manchester United following their 4-2 Premier League defeat to Leicester City.

Hughie Fury stayed on course for another world title shot as Christian Hammer retired with a bicep injury after a fiery heavyweight fight in Newcastle.

Aston Villa boss Dean Smith branded his side's collapse "a travesty" after Wolves struck three times in the final 10 minutes to claim a staggering 3-2 derby win.

The 2021 T20 World Cup is about to begin - here is all you need to know ahead of the tournament...

Cameron Norrie's sensational year has another first after a brilliant 6-2 6-4 victory over Grigor Dimitrov took the Brit into his first Masters-level final at the BNP Paribas Open Indian Wells.

The terror suspect held on suspicion of murdering Sir David Amess is named Ali Harbi Ali, Sky News understands.

Priti Patel says it is "right and proper" that MPs are accessible to members of the public following Sir David Amess' killing - and stressed that politicians' safety and an open democracy "can absolutely be balanced".

Boris Johnson has laid flowers at the scene of the fatal stabbing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess in Essex - an attack which police believe could be linked to Islamist extremism.

Saturday in Southend is quiet, and lacking in the usual buzz of a seaside town on a weekend.

Murdered MP Sir David Amess had recently written about the risk of attacks on parliamentarians, admitting "it could happen to any of us".