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  • Angry Birds to flock to Merry Hill

    VIDEO game favourite Red from the Angry Birds will drop by intu Merry Hill later this week. Red Bird will make an appearance at the shopping centre on Friday July 26 to mark the upcoming release of the new ‘The Angry Birds Movie 2’ early next month

  • Primary school donates hundreds of shoes for Gambian children

    KIND-hearted pupils and their parents at Glynne Primary School have collected hundreds of pairs of shoes to pass onto children in Gambia. The thoughtful campaign was launched with Ridgewood High School in support of the Project Gambia appeal, which

  • Two Black Country men deny killing 32-year-old

    TWO men have denied killing a 32-year-old man found with serious head injuries in Oldbury. Amjad Khan died five days after being discovered at a house in Yardley Close, Bristnall Fields. Daman Sehra and Derek Brennan both pleaded not guilty

  • Town centre pub reopens after £12k makeover

    ONE of Halesowen's oldest pubs - which had been boarded up - has undergone a makeover and is doing a thriving trade. Picks on High Street had been empty for around 18-months after the previous landlady retired. Now new landlady and landlord

  • £2 million bid to regenerate ailing town centre

    BRIERLEY Hill High Street could be in line for a £2 million cash injection to revive the town's fortunes and aid its regeneration. Dudley Council chiefs have applied to Historic England for cash through its Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) programme in

  • Halesowen choir raises £3k for Girls' Brigade group

    MEMBERS of a Halesowen choir have raised £3k for a girls brigade group through a series of performances - even meeting celebrity Alison Hammond along the way. Lutley Community Voices presented the 61st Birmingham Girls Brigade with a cheque on

  • Before the courts: the latest from Dudley Magistrates' Court

    A DUDLEY woman received a suspended jail sentence after admitting stealing hundreds of pounds worth of items from the Co-Op. Jodie Westwood, aged 36, of Sedgley Road, Dudley, pleaded guilty to stealing £235 worth of items from the Co-Op in Kingswinford