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 […]

Construction works on the new eye catching modern office development i9 have started following a period of site enabling works. i9 is set in the heart of the City of Wolverhampton Interchange and emerged as a scheme following the success of the award winning i10 complex on the opposite side […]

Keen volunteer Les Drinkwater has been recognised for his dedication to Saltwells Nature Reserve at an awards ceremony this month. Les, who has a background in geology, wildlife and teaching won the Local Environment Award (individual category) at this month’s Forging the Future awards. This was the second Forging a […]

NEW RESEARCH FINDS THAT SANTA DELIVERS STRESS & SICK LEAVE TO UK WORKERS AS THEY JUGGLE DEMANDS OF CARE, HEALTH & FAMILY AT CHRISTMAS It may be billed as ‘the most wonderful time of the year’, but for many UK employees the pressures of juggling family, health and care demands […]