THE Black Country Foodbank is appealing for donations from football fans at Stourbridge's home game with Kettering this Saturday (January 26). The organisation helps vulnerable individuals and families in crisis through the provision of three days
An elderly man conned out of £65,000 and a woman left ‘barely able to speak’ have had their lives transformed after social workers stepped in to protect them. Their cases have been been highlighted in the annual report of Sandwell’s Safeguarding
An elderly driver suffered serious injuries in a car crash in Quinton yesterday. A car left the road, hit a lamp post and ended up in trees at the island at junction 3 of the M5 motorway - just after midday. An elderly man who was driving the
A MAN had to be cut free from a car following a two-vehicle crash in Lye this morning Monday January 21. An ambulance and senior paramedic were called by police to the junction between Pedmore Road and Stourbridge Road just after 4am following a
A PRIMARY school in Halesowen is in danger of closing due to a lack of staff and students unless its headteacher leaves, insist concerned parents. Parents of children at St Margaret’s C of E Primary in Hasbury have demanded the removal of head
BLACK Country drinkers will be raising a glass for the 16th Coombs Wood Winter Beer Festival later this month. Boozers will be able to imbibe 30 real ales and ciders at the event which takes place from Thursday, January 24 to Sunday January 27
THIS week is expected to see a drop in temperatures with freezing condition which is bad news for rough sleepers. According to the housing charity Shelter, the West Midlands has seen a rise of 2,400 to take the total number of homeless people in
