A FORMER Oldbury pub will be converted into a huge 22 bed HMO after planners gave the scheme the thumbs up. A proposal to convert the former Royal Oak Inn on Causeway Green Road into a house of multiple occupation has been approved by Sandwell
A ROW over whether travellers who outstayed their welcome at Dudley's transit site should have been evicted continued to rumble on today. Chief Superintendent Kim Madill, Dudley Police commander, issued an email broadcast yesterday to the public
TWO cars crashed in Halesowen - with emergency services called to the scene. The crash happened on Carters Lane at around 2.28pm yesterday (Monday November 22). Police, firefighters and two ambulances attended and a woman, who had suffered
POLICE buildings in Halesowen, Oldbury, Brierley Hill and Dudley are amongst more than 20 which will be axed in a major cost-cutting estates programme. West Midlands Police chiefs have approved plans they say will save £5 million a year and fund
THIRTY mountain bikes have been stolen from a trust which runs a Halesowen school - leading to an appeal for people to be on the lookout for bikes for sale. The Trek Marlin Mountain bikes were stolen from Crestwood School on Bromley Lane, Kingswinford
AN increase in anti-social behaviour in Halesowen town centre has prompted police to step up patrols. Halesowen Police team said they were out and about in the town centre last night (Monday November 22). They tweeted that they "are aware of
THE number of coronavirus cases in Dudley increased by 618 over the weekend, official figures show – and one more death was recorded. A total of 53,111 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 in Dudley when the UK coronavirus
JACOB Rees-Mogg MP has called Sandwell Council a “totalitarian communist state” in reference to the authority's alleged attempt to limit freedom of speech. The comments came after Shaun Bailey MP, West Bromwich West, raised his concerns over the
A PROPOSAL to build new council houses and apartments on land in Rowley Regis has been submitted to planners. Sandwell Council wants to build homes on two parcels of land on Hawes Lane. It wants to build seven houses, two bungalows and two
DUDLEY'S gritting team are hitting the roads this week as the borough experiences its first proper cold snap of the season. The council’s gritting team is making preparations to help keep almost 300 miles of borough roads safe with temperatures
