Here are the stories making headlines in our part of the world, North Worcestershire and the Black Country.

A 39-year-old man has been jailed after being caught with more than 60,000 child porn pictures on a computer at his home in Redditch.

The pictures were picked up by an agency monitoring the use of the internet in a periodic trawl for people downloading the images, Worcester Crown Court heard.

The full court report is here.

HARD-hitting billboard advertisements have been placed around the Black Country with the aim of encouraging ethnic minority voters to vote.

The Operation Black Vote posters have been installed in High Street, Amblecote, and Cradley Road, Netherton, and feature black celebrities ‘whiting up’.

The story is available to read here.

Anxious business owners in Dudley have been told there no need to cease trading during a Britain First rally this Saturday.

Hundreds of the far right political party are expected to attend and march to the steps of Dudley Council House, Priory Road, to protest plans for a new mosque.

But many business owners were remain unsure and were waiting to here from the police at a community meeting this evening.

The story is here.

Meanwhile, the Kidderminster Shuttle reports that police are warning people to take extra care to keep their homes and vehicles safe following a series of burglaries.

The burglaries have taken place in Aggborough, Hoobrook, Spennells, Offmore, Greenhill and Broadwaters areas of Kidderminster.

The full story is here.