PLANS to plant 15,000 trees in Sandwell – one for every child who starts school in the next two years – have been approved by senior councillors. Cabinet members gave the green light to the £90k scheme to create new woodlands starting with 4,900
A PLAN to increase council house rents in the borough has been called in for scrutiny. Finances bosses have suggested a 2.7 percent increase in rent charges on social housing across the borough, as a national government on social rents is lifted
TEN new Police Community Support Officers are set to pound the beat in the Dudley borough after a plan was backed by councillors. Members of the cabinet supported a scheme which will see Dudley Council spend £750,000 on five PCSOs over three years
A MAN died when a bus and van crashed in Rowley Regis. The crash, which also injured several bus passengers, happened outside The Cock Inn on Dudley Road at around 5.05pm yesterday (Thursday). Police said the 36-year-old van driver sustained
A WEST Midlands police call handler who passed confidential to Black Country contacts has been jailed. Hannah Wilson gave information to a Rowley Regis pub landlady on incidents reported at other pubs. She also supplied information to her sister
