Police charge men in connection with Black Country robberies

Police investigating a spate of robberies at shops across the Black Country have charged a number of men.James Taplin, aged 30, from Hawthorn Road, Tipton, has been charged with seven robbery offences at One Stop shops in Dudley and Sandwell, seven counts of possessing an offensive weapon and one charge of cultivating cannabis. Martin Rollason, aged 30, from Albionfield Drive, West Bromwich, is charged with six robbery offences and six counts of possessing an offensive weapon.Both have been