OLDBURY residents watching the BBC's lunchtime news were hit with a 'bombshell' today - that a nuclear power plant is being built in their town. In an item on Hitachi's decision to suspend billion-pound work on UK nuclear projects, the BBC screened
A 1960's themed band will be playing the biggest hits of the decade at a homecoming show next month. The Zoots will bring their nostalgic 60's show to the Brierley Hill Civic Hall in February, giving lead guitarist Adam Woodhouse, who grew up in
A PROLIFIC van thief has been jailed for almost six years after West Midlands Police put the brakes on his crime spree. Craig Everitt is believed to have been a prominent member of a gang targeting Transit vans in the Black Country in November
A FORMER police officer has admitted to making indecent images of a child. Paul Davies, aged 57, from Thoresby Croft, Dudley, pleaded guilty to making five indecent images of a child at Walsall Magistates' Court this morning (January 17). Davies
Engagement rings have been spotted on sale at a high street pound shop, just a month before Valentine's Day. The 'Bling Ring' jewellery is being sold at Poundland, and has sparked a debate on social media. A photo posted in the Facebook group
A MAN who posed as a council worker to access elderly people's homes to steal money from them has been jailed for six years. John McDonald, aged 44, from Booth Street in Blakenhall, was discovered to have carried out a series of distraction burglaries
LABOUR has demanded Theresa May kill off a no-deal Brexit as the price of talks with Jeremy Corbyn about finding a way out of the crisis that has paralysed Westminster politics. After seeing off a no-confidence vote called by the opposition leader
A Rowley Regis schoolboy is "devastated" after his motorbike - which was a joint birthday and Christmas present - was stolen just two days after he got it on the road. Skyla Hickinbottom's "pride and joy" was taken from the overflow car park at
KIND-hearted youngsters from Dudley Youth Council braved the cold to take part in a sponsored sleepout to raise funds for the homeless. The young people, aged from 13 to 19 years old, slept at the Dudley Canal Trust on Friday January 11 to raise
