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  • Station Hotel in Dudley to host Urban Auction House

    A HISTORIC Dudley hotel is gearing up to host a new monthly auction event for antiques fans. The Station Hotel will host The Urban Auction House on the last Monday of every month, starting on September 30. The event at the Castle Hill hotel is

  • Sedgley Beer Festival to return with bigger gin bar

    SEDGLEY Charity Beer Festival returns this weekend, offering drinkers a bigger gin bar and more live bands. The festival, organised by the Sedgley Scout Group, takes place on Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28 at the Jubilee Scout

  • Junkie sent down after taking money from pensioner's care fund

    A DUDLEY fraudster who pocketed over £27,000 from the bank accounts of two elderly relatives has been locked up for two-and-a-half years. Drug addict Richie Jackson, aged 27, was taking up to £500 a time from the accounts belonging to his grandmother

  • Suspected drink driver released on bail following crash

    A MAN has been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of drink driving following a two-car crash in Wall Heath. Two cars collided on Kidderminster Road at around 6.30pm on Sunday, September 22. A 37-year-old man was arrested a short

  • Woman threatened at knifepoint at Colley Gate pub

    A WOMAN was held at knife-point by a gang of men during a terrifying robbery at a Colley Gate pub this morning. The gang burst into The Round of Beef on Windmill Hill at 3am and demanded money from the safe. A blade and crowbar were pointed

  • Train chaos for commuters as fallen tree blocks tracks

    THERE has been chaos for rail commuters this morning after a tree came down on the line at Smethwick Galton Bridge.  West Midlands Railway tweeted a picture of the fallen tree blocking the tracks between SmethwickGaltonBridge and LangleyGreen.

  • Flooding closes lane on M5

    FLOODING is affecting the M5 motorway this morning with one lane closed from Junction 3 to Junction 2. Highways West Midlands tweeted that one lane is closed on the M5 northbound from Junction 3 at Quinton to Junction 2 at Oldbury. But by 8am

  • Wetherspoons to open new pub in Kingswinford

    A FORMER Kingswinford pub is to be turned into a Wetherspoons as part of a multi-million pound redevelopment of the site. JD Wetherpoons has confirmed it has purchased the site at the Cross on the High Street and will spend £2.6 million creating