Live music is delighting audiences across Sandwell as part of an international festival – and there are more concerts to come all this week and over the weekend. The Mayor of Sandwell Councillor Ann Jaron helped to officially launch the Birmingham, Sandwell & Westside Jazz Festival on Friday (19 July) […]

A life-changing scheme which supports children and adults arriving in Sandwell from abroad has secured additional funding of £91,000. The fund was successfully secured through a bid to the government’s migration fund and will allow the STEPS (Sandwell Transition Education Partnership Service) Centre to remain open until 31 March 2020. […]

Council chiefs have signed a charter pledging to do all they can to make Sandwell a slavery free community. Council leader Councillor Yvonne Davies and interim chief executive David Stevens signed the charter this week in front of councillors. Modern slavery includes forced labour, sexual exploitation or criminal exploitation. This […]

I Sandwell Council has put out a summer holiday warning on the dangers of open water at the borough’s lakes, pools, ponds, canals and rivers. The council warns that all open water can be particularly inviting during periods of warm weather and people are often tempted to swim in them. […]

Four Sandwell schools have come together at a local community centre to speak and make a stand against knife crime. Shireland Collegiate Academy, Holly Lodge, Sandwell Academy and The Albion Foundation met at the Dorothy Parkes Centre in Smethwick on Tuesday (16 July) for a day of talks, presentations and […]

The Mayor of Dudley has this week paid a visit to some of the children in a newly built, state-of-the-art nursery. Councillor David Stanley along with his consort, Councillor Anne Millward, visited Brockmoor Primary School, which has recently had a brand new nursery built next to the school to provide […]

Lightwoods Park in Bearwood and Red House Park in Great Barr became the latest places in Sandwell to be recognised by the prestigious Green Flag Awards. Ten other parks and green spaces have also kept their award this year, taking Sandwell’s Green Flag total to 12. The awards, which are […]

Pupils at a West Bromwich school are taking on bad parking. Children at St Mary Magdalene CE Primary, in Stanway Road, have designed banners that are now on display outside their school. The signs ask parents and carers to help keep pupils safe by not parking on the zig zags, […]

Sandwell residents can get involved in the build up to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games this weekend. The team behind Birmingham 2022 is counting down to the Commonwealth Games by taking an art-led community research project called ‘Common Ground’ on the road. The project, which aims to connect communities across […]

People suffering honour-based abuse are being urged to seek help and support as Sandwell marks an annual Day of Memory on Sunday (14 July) to remember lost victims. The special day was inspired by Bradford-born Shafilea Ahmed, aged 17, who was murdered by her parents in 2003 because they believed […]