STAFF at Dudley Zoo have welcomed a brand new inhabitant to the Castle Hill attraction- a three-year-old sloth called Reggie. Reggie's arrival marks the first time a Linne’s two-toed sloth has called the zoo home, with staff hoping Reggie will be
FRIENDS of a Pensnett beauty spot are turning their attention to a former Pensnett park in a bid to improve the area for the whole community. The Friends of the Fens Pool Group have set themselves the task of clearing up the Coppice, close to St
FIVE jobs are being cut at a Halesowen school with an overspend on staffing being blamed. The Halesowen CofE staff will leave at the end of term. They are taking a mix of retirement, voluntary redundancy and compulsory redundancy. Headteacher
A MAN who threatened a Dudley security guard with a large kitchen knife because he suspected he had been trying to steal from a town centre store has been locked up for six months. Convicted thief Reece Baggott was seen in the B & M store in the
PLANS have been lodged to turn a closed Stourbridge pub into apartments. A full planning application has been made to partly demolish and convert the Labour in Vain pub into six two-bedroom homes. The pub, in Red Hill, has been vandalised since
POLICE have still not found a hit-and-run mobility scooter rider who left an elderly woman with a broken hip. An 84-year-old was knocked over as she walked down the High Street in Blackheath, on Friday, February 8. Police say the woman riding
A SERIES of Halesowen roads will close next month while the council carries out street cleansing. Lutley Lane (between Portsdown Road and Wynall Lane South), Wynall Lane South and Wassell Grove Road (between Wynall Lane South and the Borough Boundary
DUDLEY Council has banned sky lanterns after hearing how just one sparked a firestorm resulting in a 6,000 foot smoke plume which could been seen sixty miles away. Councillors overwhelmingly backed a call to prevent their sale and release from
