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  • Warning over all-female gang targeting OAPs

    Police have issued a warning over an an all-female gang targeting pensioners at cashpoints in Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Oldbury. The young women, believed to be from Eastern Europe, wait for vulnerable victims to input their PIN numbers before

  • Warning over used needles on short cut to Rowley Regis school

    DRUG users are leaving used needles in an area used by children to get to a Rowley Regis primary school. The needles have been found in an area called The Tump, near Highfields Primary School, in Beeches Road. Local resident James Fox was horrified

  • Kilimanjaro trek for Mind set to test Halesowen teacher

    HEROIC schoolteacher Alison Hemming embarks on a trek of lifetime later this year when the 37-year-old mum of three will attempt to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Alison, who is under no illusions about the task, said: "This is one of the

  • Brazen fraudster must pay back £34k over housing scam

    A FRAUDSTER who narrowly avoided jail after failing to declare she owned a home when she applied for a council house has been ordered to pay back more than £34k. Dudley Council spent £29k adapting a council house for Annet Nemah Umuzia Cox's specific