A GANG of seven men are set to be sentenced next month over a series of aggravated burglaries, car key burglaries and a robbery in north Worcestershire and the West Midlands. The gang were involved in 17 offences that took place across the area
RESIDENTS across the borough are invited to have their say about the Dudley Group by sharing their experiences of Russells Hall Hospital, The Guest and Corbett Outpatient Centres. The next online Patient Panel, run by the patient experience team
A DRIVER who caused a crash that left a woman with life-changing head injuries has been jailed for nine months. Terry Poole, aged 28, was riding his motorbike to work on 8 September last year when he crashed into a woman who was crossing Oldbury
UPDATE - Frank Hands from Cradley Heath has been found safe and well. A MAN from Cradley Heath has gone missing after leaving Russells Hall Hospital last night. Frank Hands, aged 29, was last seen leaving the hospital at 9pm. He was wearing
A BID to build a house on vacant land in Oldbury has been submitted to planners. The application, for a four-bedroom detached house on land to the side of 342 Newbury Lane, has been submitted to Sandwell Council. Plans from Jeff and Julie Warren
SPEED checks have been staged by police in Halesowen to put the brakes on motorists flouting the limit. Police community support officers from the Halesowen neighbourhood team were in Long Lane and Uffmoor Lane yesterday (Monday July 19). They
A CHARITY golf day is being held in memory of a well-respected sales director at an Oldbury firm. Shaun Ford, who worked at Oldbury firm Alutrade, died towards the end of last year after battling cancer. The married father-of-two had worked
MORE than £3.3k has been raised from well-wishers to help the "devastated" family of a motorbike rider killed in a crash in Halesowen at the weekend. Family man Gary Simpson died on Saturday when his motorbike hit the back of a turning 4x4.
