ARMED police were called to a robbery on a bus in Oldbury on Wednesday night (January 16). Officers from several units, including the firearms squad, descended on the number 12 bus on New Birmingham Road at around 9.30pm. Two teenagers, aged
A SPECIALIST £16 million residential centre in Rowley Regis, which will help older people live healthier lives, has been backed by councillors. Sandwell’s full council supported a change to local development plans to allow the 90-unit facility to
LIBRARIES in Blackheath and Cradley Heath will be doing their best to banish the January blues at the start of next week. With this coming Monday (January 21) tagged as 'Blue Monday', Sandwell libraries are hosting a programme of events to put smiles
THE inquest into missing teenager Natalie Putt recorded an open verdict, with the coroner ruling she died at her Gornal home or in the nearby area. Natalie, aged 17 at the time of her disappearance, went missing from her home in Thornleigh, Lower
THIS immaculate luxury home is on the market for £699,950. Located just off Bridgnorth Road in Stourbridge, Stourton Court boasts an impressively spacious and beautifully presented layout. Arranged over three floors, the three-bedroom property
A BRIERLEY Hill woman who pocketed over £72,000 while working on a supermarket till after getting into a "financial mess" at the end of her marriage and then falling into the clutches of a conman has avoided being locked up. Susan Barker - described
A VAN thief has been jailed for almost six years after a spate of keyless van thefts. Craig Everitt is believed to have been a prominent member of a gang targeting Transit vans in the Black Country in November last year. Following detailed
AN EXTRA 7,500 gullies on residential roads will be cleaned to cut the risk of flash flooding, Dudley Council bosses have pledged. The additional winter work will help to reduce the risk of flooding when cold and wet weather hits. The council
PEOPLE are urged to be 'the eyes and ears' of the council to look out for rough sleepers as temperatures plummet. Dudley Council is asking residents to report anyone they see sleeping rough so the council's homelessness team can find the person,
A PLAN has been lodged to transform a neglected retail building on Dudley high street into a complex of 15 flats. The building, which sits next to Argos at the upper end of the high street, would be overhauled into three floors of flats with retail
