00:00This is your morning update for Monday, the 18th of August, 2025.
00:07Brought to you by The Express and Star.
00:11Smethic father jailed for knocking out traffic warden in Oldbury road rage attack.
00:17A road rage yob has been jailed for knocking out a traffic warden after a row on an Oldbury street.
00:25Restaurant plans for Walsall property once home to Waste Mountain.
00:30Plans have been submitted to convert a property once home to Walsall's biggest pile of dumped waste into a peri-peri restaurant.
00:40More than 200 pubs closed in six months amid tax hikes and rising labour costs, figures show.
00:47Eight pubs a week shut their doors for good across the UK over the first half of the year amid rising tax and labour costs, according to new figures.
00:57Prisoner turned influencer teams up with Dudley Youth Centre to use music to mentor at-risk teens.
01:05A rapper who spent 10 years in prison is using music at a Dudley Youth Centre to discourage young people from making the same mistakes he did.
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