Dudley Council has been awarded nearly £175,000 to draw up a bid for a slice of a multi-billion pound government fund to improve town centres. Local authority bosses will use the cash to set up a Dudley Town Deal Board and create a Town Investment Plan. Chiefs hope it will […]

Rents on council homes in Sandwell are set to rise from April 2020 as the council seeks extra cash to invest in properties and build more new homes. The move comes after a four-year government-imposed rent cap ends, during which time councils had to reduce their council house rents by […]

Sandwell Council is to publish its Climate Change Strategy and an Air Quality Action Plan in the New Year. The council will start an eight-week consultation period on 20 January for people to give their views and ideas on how emissions can be reduced. Councillor Wasim Ali, cabinet member for […]

With 2019 nearly at a close Birmingham based Sales and marketing firm LJ Global are pleased with their progress. With focus resting on laying solid foundations and preparing for growth over the coming year, the firm reached its goals for 2019. To celebrate the firm treated top performers to a trip to […]

Budding entrepreneurs in part of Dudley who are looking to set up a small business can bid for up to £500 funding and get free business advice to get them up and running. The trial scheme will eventually see up to 10 small businesses take up a free stall on […]

Dudley Council is set to begin the second phase of work to tackle nitrogen dioxide emissions at two sites in the borough. The authority was awarded over £1.5m to tackle roadside nitrogen dioxide emissions in April 2019. The grant from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and […]

Commemorative stones are being laid at City of Wolverhampton Council new build housing sites to mark the historic 100th anniversary of council housing in Britain. Work on 7, phase 4 developments under the council’s small site home building scheme have started in 2019 – and a property on each site […]

Kind hearted staff at Dudley Council have donated hundreds of presents to children this Christmas. For the second year running, staff working in housing services, based at the Leys depot have donated dozens of gifts to Free Radio’s mission Christmas, which provides presents to disadvantaged children and young people aged […]

Members, relatives, carers and friends at a Wednesbury community group got together for a Christmas meal with support from a Sandwell Council town grant. Wednesbury Fellowship of the Disabled held the Christmas meal at the Masonic Building in Russell Street this month (December). A town grant of £594 contributed towards […]