A war memorial in Wednesbury is now fully accessible to local people after a fence was realigned to release it from school grounds. The Mesty Croft War Memorial was within the grounds of Mesty Croft Academy School after palisade fencing was erected around the school perimeter as a safeguarding measure […]

Kerbside collections of mattresses, bed bases, carpets and underlay in the borough are to be made nearly 70 per cent cheaper for residents under new plans. Dudley Council bosses are working with Textek Ltd to manage the scheme moving forwards. It will see the cost of collection for a mattress […]

Remembrance Sunday services and parades will be taking place across Sandwell on Sunday 10 November. The Mayor, Councillor Dr Ann Jaron will be attending the service at the Smethwick Council House, while Deputy Mayor Councillor Suzanne Hartwell will be at the service in Oldbury Civic Square. The Festival of Remembrance […]

Dudley Council is urging residents to be on their guard after a recent spate of bogus calls to residents claiming to offer council tax refunds. The local authority’s scams unit has received a number of calls from concerned residents who have received dodgy calls from a company claiming they have […]

Hell-raising rock star John Lydon is appearing in a one-off show in Dudley next year, it was revealed today. The former Sex Pistols frontman, also known as Johnny Rotten, is flying over from his home in Los Angeles for an informal evening of conversation and audience questions at Dudley Town […]

A letter to the people of the future, a school jumper and class photographs are just some of the items buried in a Dudley school time capsule. Local school children from Beechwood C of E Primary School in Dudley have been busy preparing items for a new time capsule, which […]

After 35 years of helping children at Crocketts Community Primary during lunch times, Pat Newman is retiring. The Smethwick dinner lady, aged 71 first started at Crocketts Lane Infant School in 1981. Pat then spent a few years at other Smethwick Primary schools before returning to Crocketts in 1984. School […]

Plans to plant 15,000 trees in Sandwell will be put to the council’s cabinet on Wednesday 30 October. If approved, a tree will be planted for the 4,900 children starting school in reception in September 2019 With a further 10,100 trees to be planted in the following two years. It […]

A much-praised scheme to help dependent drinkers in Sandwell while easing the pressure on emergency services has won one of the country’s top public health awards. The Blue Light Project works with drinkers who have struggled with alcohol dependence treatment and place a demand on the emergency services. The highly-successful  project, which […]

A huge swathe of former industrial land in Sandwell is to be turned into homes after lying derelict for decades. The equivalent of more than 32 football pitches at Friar Park in Wednesbury will be transformed into a 750-home community following the purchase of an old sewage works by the […]