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  • ‘Vicious and frenzied’: the fatal attack on Walsall hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte
    by Neha Gohil and agency on October 24, 2025 at 3:56 pm

    Deng Majek followed Whyte to a train station near the hotel where she worked before stabbing her 23 times • Man guilty of murdering hotel worker at Walsall railway stationIt was around 11pm on 20 October 2024 when Rhiannon Skye Whyte, a 27-year-old from Walsall, finished her late shift at the Park Inn hotel in Wolverhampton and made her way to the nearby railway station.Whyte, who cleaned and served food at the hotel housing asylum seekers, had been working there for about three months. […]

  • Asylum seeker accused of killing Walsall hotel worker seen ‘clearly excited’ after attack, jury told
    by Robyn Vinter on October 14, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver after shift at hotel where Deng Chol Majek livedAn asylum seeker accused of stabbing a hotel worker 23 times with a screwdriver and leaving her to die was seen dancing and laughing in the aftermath of the attack, a murder trial jury has heard.Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19, was “clearly excited about what he had done” after inflicting fatal wounds on Rhiannon Skye Whyte, who worked in the hotel where he was living, […]

  • Jaguar Land Rover aims to restart limited production after cyber-attack
    by Jasper Jolly on October 6, 2025 at 6:26 pm

    Wolverhampton expected to be first plant to resume output, with some workers understood to have returnedSome factory workers at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) returned to work on Monday, with the British manufacturer hoping to start making a limited number of cars as soon as this week after a crippling cyber-attack.The first factory expected to restart production is at Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, where JLR makes engines. Some workers are understood to have returned to the site on Monday. […]

  • Jaguar Land Rover staff told to stay home after cyber-attack
    by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent on September 5, 2025 at 10:54 am

    Prolonged halt at Merseyside and West Midlands factories is tacit admission that quick resolution is unlikelyBusiness live – latest updatesJaguar Land Rover has told its factory staff to stay home until at least next Tuesday as it continues to deal with the effects of a cyber-attack.The carmaker has had to stop production at its factories in Merseyside and the West Midlands after hackers infiltrated its systems. Continue reading...

  • Wolverhampton council rethinks plan to introduce premium on wider graves
    by Nadeem Badshah on August 14, 2025 at 5:55 pm

    The fee, which critics had branded a ‘fat tax’, would have seen a cemetery charge an extra 20% for a 6ft-wide plot compared to the standard 5ftA council has decided against introducing a premium on wider burial plots in Wolverhampton following condemnation that it was a “fat tax”.Danescourt cemetery in Tettenhall had planned to charge an extra 20% to families whose loved ones need a 6ft-wide plot, as opposed to a standard 5ft grave. Wolverhampton council previously said the higher […]