Sandwell Council’s SHAPE Programme has delivered another successful Anti-bullying Week (Monday 11 November to Friday 15 November) roadshow in partnership with youth services and West Midlands Police. The team visited 10 schools and taught hundreds of children how to look after themselves and others. The theme of this year’s roadshow […]

Did you know that the Black Country is considered to be one of the most haunted places in the United Kingdom?  The area boasts many historical and architectural sites, some of which date back to a pre-industrial period and in some cases to the early 16th century.  With this rich […]

Local libraries are once more supporting this year’s Orange Wolverhampton safeguarding campaign, which begins on Monday (25 November, 2019). They are holding a range of events over the next few weeks to raise awareness of the campaign, which aims to end ‘interpersonal violence’, including domestic abuse, female genital mutilation, forced […]

People can pick up beautiful and unusual Christmas gifts at a winter antiques and collector fair at Himley Hall this weekend (Sunday 24 November). The event, which runs from 9am to 4pm, follows the success of a summer and autumn fair at the hall earlier this year after a hiatus […]

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 […]