Bringing Communities Together
A group of charity gardeners are celebrating after Dudley Council and a Midland business decided to dig deep and buy them new tools. Growing in the Park is a project run by Dudley Mind, using horticulture and practical activities to help improve health and wellbeing. Since 2014, the group’s volunteers […]
A man serving life behind bars for ordering a drug rival’s murder has been convicted of trafficking heroin and crack cocaine after police in the West Midlands exposed him as the head of a County Lines network. Artaf Hussain, from Slater Street in Tipton, was handed a life sentence last […]
People can join a volunteer group to help improve public access to land and sites across Sandwell for walking and cycling. Sandwell Local Access Forum (LAF) provides advice to the council on access and rights of way issues and responds to consultations and draft policy documents. LAF members are volunteers […]
Work to undertake £100k of essential maintenance at a Stourbridge carpark. The Ryemarket carpark in Stourbridge will remain open during the work, which includes an extra £38,000 to repair a leaking roof that has had an impact on the lift operation. Dudley Council recently carried out a routine inspection on […]
School students celebrated their knowledge of healthier and more active ways to travel at an annual inter-school quiz, which took place on Wednesday 19 June 2019. The A*STARS (Active Sustainable Travel and Road Safety) programme, run by Walsall Council, provides schools with the resources to improve road safety, traffic management […]
The Park has just welcomed some fluffy new arrivals in Penguin Cove. Two grey Humboldt penguin chicks, named Hotdog and Haggis, have emerged from their nests and are starting to explore their new home. In 2019, all of the Park’s newborns’ names have to begin with the letter ‘H’, a […]
A brand-new music school will be built in West Bromwich with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) and Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust. The Department for Education recently approved funding for the Shireland CBSO School – a new non-selective and non-fee paying specialist music school in Sandwell to be run […]
Sandwell Council is set to help local companies take on new staff – by sharing funding aimed at boosting the number of people doing apprenticeships. The council has taken on almost 300 apprentices since the start of the Apprenticeship Levy scheme in May 2017. Now the council is planning to […]
3 wooden wolf sculptures have been unveiled on the A449 to mark the completion of a major transport scheme in Wolverhampton. The £6.8 million city north gateway scheme started in October 2017 to support job generation and business growth – ensuring highway capacity to support investment at local companies including […]
A 4 man parachute jump out of a helicopter into Wolverhampton’s West Park will provide the finale to a spectacular free day of entertainment as the city marks national Armed Forces Day at the end of the month. Armed Forces Day, which this year takes place on Saturday 29 June, […]
