CONSTRUCTION has begun in Dudley for the new home of the Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust in the Black Country.

The two-storey office building on Castlegate Business Park, Castlegate Way, is the second major project on the site by developers Stoford who recently completed a 63-room hotel for Premier Inns.

The new building for the Probation Trust is being paid for by property company AC Lloyd who will let the facility to the Trust when it is finished.