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Wolverhampton fraudster uses leaked personal details 800 times to make thousands in online buys & bets
Ludek Fiurasek used leaked personal details including email addresses and passwords to access online shopping accounts and betting sites

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Police issue update after woman killed in Wolverhampton hit-and-run
Emergency services were called to Birmingham Road on Saturday night


Council spending £1.3m on new food waste lorries ahead of major bin collection changes
Food waste collections were scrapped by the council in 2018

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Ambulance service issue statement after man shot in Wolverhampton city centre
A 19-year-old was shot in the leg in Peel Street on Sunday afternoon


Wolverhampton city centre broad daylight shooting leaves man seriously injured
Emergency services were called to Peel Street Car Park in Wolverhampton on Sunday evening


Midlands hospital staff handed £360-a-year parking bill as bosses say 'sorry to have to do this'
Charges will be handed out to full-time and part-time staff working at Walsall Manor Hospital and New Cross in Wolverhampton


First picture of Wolverhampton gunman who admitted blasting victim 'at close range' in park
Kieran Thomas, 27, admitted attempted murder six weeks after shooting at his victim


Police make two arrests after fatal Wolverhampton crash
Breaking - Two people have been arrested after a woman in her 20s was killed in a fatal crash in Wolverhampton last night, October 11


Tragedy as woman in her 20s dies after being hit by Audi Q2 on Birmingham Road - all we know
Everything we know as West Midlands Police "move quickly" in fatal Wolverhampton hit-and-run probe


Urgent police hunt for Audi Q2 after woman killed in Wolverhampton hit-and-run crash
Breaking news as car registration details released as part of urgent hit-and-run probe after woman in her 20s killed on Birmingham Road last night, October 11


I found a 'purr-fect' place to visit with children this half term and it costs just £5
The Quattery has recently opened in Wolverhampton town centre


Man starved seven dogs and kept them next to dead animals
Warning: Contains distressing image. RSPCA Officers rescued a female Rottweiler, a male German Shepherd, and five Rottweiler puppies from the Wolverhampton home of Amarjit Chopra


Parents' horror as they accidentally lock baby inside car at retail park
West Midlands Police officers were 'frantically waved down' at Bentley Bridge Retail Park


New Lidl supermarket to be built on on site of former abattoir
Plans for the new supermarket have been given the green light by planners


Police issue warning to off-road bikers
West Midlands Police said the message was 'simple'


Mum's desperate plea to find Birmingham teenager missing for weeks
Aaliyah has been missing for more than two weeks with her mum now posting an appeal to find her


Parts of delayed multi-million-pound market revamp scrapped by council
The cost of the work has increased by a third to nearly £9m and is currently due to open eight months later than planned


Bonfire Night events in Wolverhampton, Dudley and Stourbridge
Large scale events with funfairs and low key bonfires plus one that's completely free


10 poorest Midlands towns and cities named on deprivation list
Parts of our region have some of the worst deprivation rates


Grandparents who murdered boy, 2, were originally from Wolverhampton
Michael and Kerry Ives, originally from the Black Country, have been jailed for life for murdering their two-year-old grandson Ethan Ives-Griffiths
