This is the same issue as https://www.drupal.org/node/1252178 for D8. This request is not simply in order to bring us in feature parity with D8 - it's been mentioned in various issues like #189, #214, #801 and latest in #988. It was listed in #211 but dropped as N/A back then. Reconsider?
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I tried it and it worked. Thank you very much.
[current-page:title] token in Custom Block
I think if you use the Token Block modules it should work better as it recognises the context it is in.
[current-page:title] token in Custom Block
Thank you, I did clear the cache, but have now realised the hosting platform had its cache service enable.
Maintenance mode not working