94% of Walsall College students who completed Level 3 courses at the Ofsted outstanding college in 2014, have successfully progressed into employment or higher education. Now the college is inviting prospective students to come and find out how they can start their own successful careers though its range of vocational courses at its latest Open Day, on Saturday 17th October 2015, from 10am – 2pm.

Grand Designs Live, sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, today celebrated it's 10^th birthday at the NEC in Birmingham with design guru and presenter Kevin McCloud entering the exhibition in the world's first origami inspired car. The car, made by Lexus, is a life-size replica of the new IS saloon, created from 1,700 fully recyclable laser-cut cardboard sheets.

A 24-year-old is one of three individuals selected from thousands across the world as part of a competition to send one undiscovered leader into space. Hussain Manawer from Ilford, Essex has been chosen as one of three finalists as part of the Rising Star Programme, launched at the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin, The initiative’s creator, London-based talent agency, Kruger Cowne, and their partners One Young World and Spaceship Earth Grants, have announced the finalists.

October is Black History Month, and cultural historian Patrick Vernon OBE is hosting two events in Wolverhampton next weekend to celebrate the contribution the African-Caribbean community has made to Britain. The Wolverhampton-born writer, historian, political activist and founder of 100 Great Black Britons will give a talk on the “Windrush generation” who settled in Wolverhampton from the 1940s onwards before presenting a film about the life of Jamaican pilot Eddie Martin Noble, who served with the RAF in the Second World War.

Wolverhampton's new Director of Education wants schools standards in the city to be the best in the Black Country – if not the West Midlands. Julien Kramer says he is determined to continue the good work to drive up education attainment levels in Wolverhampton, and further increase the number of local schools rated either good or outstanding by Ofsted.

Willows Hedgehog Rescue has joined forces with Birmingham City Council and other councils across the West Midlands to raise awareness of the dangers that brush cutters and ‘strimmers’ can pose to wildlife, especially hedgehogs. Many hundreds of hedgehogs every year are seriously injured, sometimes fatally, by the use of line trimmers or ‘strimmers’.