Wolverhampton’s education chief has issued a good luck message to students collecting their A-levels and other results this week. Thousands of students are due to find out what grades they have achieved at schools and colleges across the city today. Councillor Claire Darke, the City of Wolverhampton Council’s Cabinet Member for Education, said: “I'd like to wish everyone collecting their A-level results this week the very best of luck."

Millennials in the West Midlands (18-35s) are fast becoming a generation of regret, as nearly half (47%) who went to university regret doing so given the amount of debt they now have. This is ten percentage points higher than the average across all UK millennials (37%).   As they struggle to pay back tuition fees, meet daily living costs and save for the future, over half (53%) of millennials in the West Midlands who went to university believe they could have got to where they are now if they hadn’t gone, Aviva’s latest Family Finances Report reveals.

The success of a City of Wolverhampton College student who learnt his trade on a City of Wolverhampton Council housing project has highlighted the benefits of apprenticeships. Cameron Bridgen, from Wednesfield, was taken on by Kier Group as a Level 2 apprentice carpenter on its Thompson Avenue housing development in June 2014. Since then the 19-year-old has climbed the ladder and has recently secured a management position with Kier.

Academics at Birmingham City University are working on a connected wardrobe that addresses the problem of unworn clothes by reminding you to wear them – or to give them away to charity. The initiative will create an Internet of Clothes that sees garments tagged using washable contactless technology, known as radio-frequency identification (RFID). Every day clothing will tweet and message users asking to be worn depending on the weather and frequency of wear.

New research from David Lloyd Clubs reveals that the average British parent starts to think about the sports they could enroll their children into before they even turn five years of age. And, what’s more surprising, 5% of parents confessed that they started making sporting plans for their little ones as soon as they hit six months.  This keenness to push children into sport isn’t just for fun - 43% of parents believe that partaking in sports at a young age could impact on how successful their children are in the future.

Sand le Mere Holiday Village on the East Yorkshire coast has launched the UK's first smartphone photography course dedicated to taking better holiday pictures. The class is run by Elaine Taylor (@sunflowerof21), one of the UK's leading mobile phone photographers and a recent winner at the worldwide iPhone Photography Awards. Holiday snappers will be given a crash course on how to get the most from the camera on their mobile phone, with Elaine giving tips on lighting, composition, perspective and using image-editing apps.