Walsall landmark Barr Beacon is to get a £440,000 three-year revamp, including restoring the war memorial which has been targeted by metal thieves.

Metal strips were ripped off the Barr Beacon war memorial in Walsall either on Friday night or Saturday morning. Adrian Andrew, deputy leader of Walsall Council, has described the theft as "shocking ...

“DESPICABLE” thieves who stripped a Great Barr war memorial of its copper roofing should be sent to the front lines in Afghanistan a leading councillor said.