Walsall Council’s Trading Standards team has seized approximately £150,000 worth of counterfeit goods from three stalls at Bescot Market. The joint operation, with West Midlands Police and representatives from private-sector brand protection teams, took place on Sunday December 7 Items seized included counterfeit clothing and fake Apple AirPods, many of which […]

With budding creatives and thriving businesses, Walsall is a vibrant borough which has a lot to offer shoppers looking for their loved ones’ next favourite Christmas presents. The New Art Gallery Walsall gift shop In the run up to the festive season, many creatives, artists and crafters, spend months preparing, […]

Walsall Council has launched a public consultation asking residents, community groups and partners to help shape the borough’s long-term approach to housing. The Walsall Borough Housing Strategy will set out the vision and framework for future housing across our borough up to 2040 to ensure that people have access to […]

The partial opening of a new bridge in Pelsall is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 16 December. This milestone for the York’s Bridge project will allow the existing road closure to be lifted from Tuesday 16 December, 6pm, and will see traffic movement across the newly constructed bridge. The […]

The Walsall Society of Artists returns to The New Art Gallery Walsall for their Annual Exhibition, which runs from 12 December 2025 to 15 February 2026 between 10am and 4pm. Walsall Society of Artists: 74th Annual Exhibition, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2024-5. Photo: Annabel Clarke. This year marks the […]

Work to develop a new £50 million-pound secondary school in Walsall – funded by central government – will now proceed. The Department has proposed the school is developed on the former Reedswood golf course site. Following announcements from the Department for Education, Walsall has been selected as one of 16 new […]

Illegal cigarettes, tobacco and drugs have been seized from retailers across Walsall as part of a major enforcement operation carried out on Thursday 4 December 2025. The joint operation involving Walsall Trading Standards, West Midlands Police, and specialist search dog teams, formed part of Operation CeCe, a National Trading Standards […]

Walsall Council has released its waste collection and recycling information ahead of this year’s Christmas and New Year period. Approximately 35,000 households in the borough will see their bins emptied on a different day to their normal scheduled day over the festive period. There will be no bin collections on […]

Significant improvements have been carried out at Barns Lane Fishing Pool in Rushall. The site has benefitted from a series of upgrades throughout the year, including the installation of new accessible fishing pegs in May, pathway improvements in June, and a recent restock of the pool. Twelve fully accessible pegs […]