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  • Purple joy as Tipper takes title

    HALESOWEN road racer Jacob Tipper has claimed overall victory in the South Staffs and Shropshire Road Racing League. Tipper took the crown after finishing second to Andy Tennant at the final event in Penkridge last month. His Halesowen team-mate Tom

  • Halesowen Town 0 Weymouth 0

    DEAN Coleman saved a penalty to preserve a point for Halesowen Town in their season opener. The stopper clawed out Samuel Charles’ spot-kick low to his left with 16 minutes remaining to ensure the game remained goalless. Earlier, Samuel

  • Aerobathon charity bid at Haden Hill Leisure Centre

    KEEP-FIT customers at Cradley Heath’s Haden Hill Leisure Centre raised £249 for Cancer Research UK with an aerobathon. Twenty-five people were sponsored to take classes including aerobics, step, salsa, bums, legs and tums, bollywood and fitness yoga

  • Search launched for Halesowen talent

    A PERFOMING troupe from Halesowen is hoping the spotlight will shine on new talent eager to swell its ranks. Startime Variety is looking for singers, dancers and actors – men and women - to join in the group’s next pantomime at Christmas. Publicity

  • Xtra looks at feel-good funds

    Do you eat organic food, avoid clothes shops linked with using child labour and choose natural products free of animal testing? If you do, you're already an ethical consumer. But if you want to do a bit more to save the planet and give opportunities

  • Feel-good funds

    Making an ethical investment is more than just a charitable endeavour; it's possible to do good and still walk away with a profit. Do you eat organic food, avoid clothes shops linked with using child labour and choose natural products free of animal

  • Stein on Malaysian times

    The fish-loving chef who regularly commutes from his restaurants in Cornwall to Australia (where his fiance lives), explains how he fell in love with Malaysian food and why he's fronting a year-long campaign to celebrate Malay cuisine. "Challenging

  • Desk-top designer deals

    Skip the shops and pick up a bargain online. Shoppers tread carefully: the High Street in August is never a pretty sight. You've either got the dregs of summer sales nobody wants littering the shop floors or you're trying on next season's sheepskin

  • Feet first

    Pamper your soles and flaunt your feet with pride this summer with our pedi tips. She may have her own fashion line and designers falling at her feet but there's one essential accessory Victoria Beckham aka Posh is lacking in... pretty tootsies.