IT will be a family affair when a Cradley church holds a free concert this weekend. St Peter’s Parish Church, on Church Road, is hosting ‘Choir, Organ and Brass’ on Saturday (May 18) at 2.30pm. Guest organist Jean Holloway – from the choir of
STOURBRIDGE rugby players are preparing to clash for cash in an annual season-end event at Stourton Park. The Clash of the Titans is an annual match between social sides at Stourbridge Rugby Club to raise money for a good cause. This year's contest
FIVE-WAY temporary traffic lights have caused chaos in Rowley Regis as electrical engineers carry out emergency repair work. Work on a faulty cable on the bridge at the end of Garratts Lane has led to delays in journeys around the Powke Lane roundabout
THIRSTY Halesowen shoppers can fill their water bottles for free in a whole host of shops across the town. Fifteen businesses around the town centre have signed up to the Refill scheme, which aims to prevent plastic pollution by making reusing
A 51-YEAR-old man is in hospital after being stabbed in the back at his Dudley home. The stabbing took place at Tudor House on Highgate Road, just after 10.30am on Monday (May 13). Police say a group of men are understood to have been banging
HALESOWEN Cycling Club's Kinga Ingram took victory in a National Omnium qualifier event in Cardiff last weekend. The Stourport rider secured first place in the under-16 girls event. She came third in the one kilometre time trial, won the scratch
YVONNE Davies has been chosen as the leader of Sandwell Council in a tightly fought contest where the margin of victory was just two votes. Cllr Davies beat Cradley Heath and Old Hill councillor Ann Shackleton by 35 to 33 at the annual general meeting
POLICE officers are out and about across Halesowen for an 'All Out Day' of action today (Tuesday). Officers are in the town's bus station with a knife arch and will be listening to people's concerns at the cop shop in the Cornbow Shopping Centre
A TEENAGER has been arrested after violence broke out at Oldbury Academy. The 14-year-old boy – who can’t be named for legal reasons – was detained after the assault at the Pound Lane-based school yesterday (Monday). West Midlands Police said
FRIENDS and family of a popular Halesowen businessman who died just ten days after being diagnosed with leukaemia are set to get muddy with their canine companions to raise £5k for charity in his memory. Spencer Digby, who ran Spencer Signs, in
ANOTHER fire ripped through derelict pub the Merrivale in Oldbury last night. The blaze at the former Merrivale pub in Vicarage Road started at around 11pm yesterday (Monday) - and is the second fire there in just a week. Just last Tuesday
CLAIMS that a controversial plan to build a travellers’ site in Coseley would be reintroduced by Conservatives if they win control of the council have been denied by the party’s leader. Cllr Patrick Harley said if his party succeeds in taking power
INTU Merry Hill has joined forces with Dudley and Walsall Mental Health NHS Trust to help shopper's mental health. A range of mental wellbeing workshops will take place today (Tuesday May 14) including one-to-one drop-in counselling sessions, referrals
