More than 5,000 people turned out to enjoy the Halesowen Christmas lights switch on, with the town’s home-grown talent Gregory Piper making a star appearance. Gregory, who plays troubled teen Ryan Pilkington in BBC drama Line of Duty and is from the town, pressed the button to switch on the […]

Sandwell Council is seeking to secure a £1.3 million grant from the West Midlands Combined Authority to enable it to demolish a West Bromwich car park to enable the future redevelopment of the site. The ageing multi-storey car park in Bull Street, which was opened as part of the Queen’s […]

City of Wolverhampton Council is calling for more volunteers to sign up to the council’s snow clearing scheme ‘Snow Wolves’ in preparation for the winter period. Snow Wolves has around 300 dedicated volunteers who lend their community a helping hand, clearing snow and ice from neighbours’ pavements and driveways. Now […]

Thousands of people turned out in Dudley and fell silent to remember those who gave their lives fighting for our freedom. Ex-servicemen and women, servicemen and women and reservists along with community groups paraded through the town centre before the annual service at the Cenotaph in Coronation Gardens and two-minute […]

An innovative gardening project helping people in the borough with mental health problems is in the running to win a national award. Dudley Council’s Growing in the Park project, run in conjunction with Dudley Mind, has been nominated in the Public & Private Partnership category at the LGC Awards. It […]

Walsall Council has pledged to continue the clamp down on motorists abusing its Civil Enforcement Officers or ‘Traffic Wardens’, as they carry out their work. This follows a recent sentencing of a 12 month probation and 80 hours of community service for a HGV driver for assaulting an officer on […]

People in Rowley Regis are being given the opportunity to learn how to play Asian musical instruments with the aid of a local town grant from Sandwell Council. Raag & Rhythm will be holding music classes teaching Asian musical instruments and vocals at the Community Room c/o Shri Pashupatinath Mandir […]

Dudley Council has held a special reception to welcome Venerable Martin Gorick, following  Downing Street announcement that he will serve as the new Bishop of Dudley. The Mayor of Dudley and selected guests took the opportunity to welcome Bishop Martin to Dudley borough and to speak with him about the […]

A war memorial in Wednesbury is now fully accessible to local people after a fence was realigned to release it from school grounds. The Mesty Croft War Memorial was within the grounds of Mesty Croft Academy School after palisade fencing was erected around the school perimeter as a safeguarding measure […]

Kerbside collections of mattresses, bed bases, carpets and underlay in the borough are to be made nearly 70 per cent cheaper for residents under new plans. Dudley Council bosses are working with Textek Ltd to manage the scheme moving forwards. It will see the cost of collection for a mattress […]