The photograph shows an air ambulance paramedics treating a heart attack patient.

Toppazal and his family escaped safely after a fire in their home, believed to be caused by children playing with matches. Walsall and Willenhall are mentioned.

The church was celebrating its silver jubilee. Sarah Birch, Songs of Praise and Jean Martyn are mentioned, and the photograph shows Brenda Fellows.

The photograph shows James Elson of Remington Road trying out the bell on an old London Bus.

The green grocers and florists were stocked up with holly wreaths in time for Christmas in their stores in Butlers Precinct and The Arcade. The photograph shows Louise Morris with one of the wreaths.

John Day received a commemorative crystal decanter as the Met Office’s longest-running amateur weather observer, from his garden observatory in Walsall Wood Road, Aldridge.

The photograph shows Nick Tranter (right) and his wife Diane with their neighbour, Peter Taylor, in front of a hole that threatened to swallow their properties.

The photograph shows Nick Tranter (back, left) and his wife Diane with their neighbour, Peter Taylor, in front of a hole that threatened to swallow their properties.

The photograph shows Nick Tranter (left) and his wife Diane with their neighbour, Peter Taylor, in front of a hole that threatened to swallow their properties.

The photograph of two youths with cigarettes and a police officer (Steve Poole) behind was used to accompany an article on juvenile crime.