Cradley 52, Coventry 42 CRADLEY Heathens gave themselves a narrow advantage over Coventry with victory in the first leg of the National League Grand Final. The Heathens had to fight hard for their win against a strong Storm outfit at Monmore
A PEACE activist from Cradley Heath who campaigned for landless farmers to get rights in India is urging people to join a walk with her hero on Monday.Fran Wilde has organised the Peace Walk in Birmingham honour of 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Rajagopal
THE spectre of invading Cockney benefit tourists has been raised again by Sandwell Council's top brass who claim London authorities are preparing to "dump" poor families in the borough. Two months after the High Court banned the council
AN axe-wielding robber repeatedly hit a man in an Oldbury street as he walked home from work and made off with his mobile phone and wallet. The attacker jumped out of a car brandishing the axe and set upon a 26-year-old who was walking along Castle
A SUCCESSFUL fundraising drive by kind-hearted Christians in Quinton has resulted in a Blackheath charity being awarded £13,000. The cash windfall for Loaves 'n' Fishes will help the charity distribute free furniture, household goods and clothes
A LEADING heart research charity will spend a day in Halesowen appealing to shoppers to ‘bag it and beat it’. British Heart Foundation shops’ volunteers will be urging people to donate bags full of unwanted items when they give out Bag It. Beat
A PRIVATE education company is offering free workshops in Oldbury next week.On Monday Explore Learning is holding fun and interactive workshops for children aged five to 14. The English and maths tuition provider will be holding maths, arithmetic, creative
A CRADLEY church choir is hoping to strike a chord with a production of a modern musical entitled Apostle. It has been written by Birmingham composer Roger Jones and the 22 members of Overend Methodist Mission choir will perform it on Sunday (October
AN online one-stop shop has been set up for Halesowen residents, giving them more information at their fingertips about housing involvement. The Take Control and Get Involved website www.housingtakecontrol.org.uk is for anyone in Dudley borough
FASHION and textile students at Halesowen College have teamed up with Our Lady and St Kenelm RC Primary School to create fresh new nativity play costumes. The group of 15 second year students will be giving a fresh look to costumes for Mary, Joseph
MUSIC club organisers are hoping for another record turnout for a return gig in Rowley Regis by one of the region’s most popular jazz bands. The Sheila Fawkes Jazz Quintet played at the Black Country Accordion Club last October, attracting a record
FED up residents of a Colley Gate street are appealing to Dudley Council to pollard an overgrown lime tree outside their homes before someone is injured. The roots of the tree are also damaging the pavement in Beecher Road East and a driveway –
CLASSICS by Mozart and Haydn will feature in this year’s autumn concert by the Halesowen Choral Society. Mozart’s Confessore Vespers, his final choral work composed in 1780 for the Salzburg Cathedral, and Haydn’s Theresa Mass, one of a series of
THE Walsall Harmonic Male Voice Choir will be hitting the high notes in a concert in Halesowen next month. It will be performing at St Peter’s Church, Hiplands Road, Lapal, on Saturday November 1 at 7.30pm. Tickets, priced £6, include refreshments
