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  • Foodbank donations wanted at Stourbridge v Kettering game

    THE Black Country Foodbank is appealing for donations from football fans at Stourbridge's home game with Kettering this Saturday (January 26). The organisation helps vulnerable individuals and families in crisis through the provision of three days

  • Beacon League: Trysull secure cup semi-final place

    TRYSULL Tigers celebrated qualification for the Beacon Sunday League's Clinton Cup semi finals by going on a goal spree this week. With their spot in the knockout stages already secure, group A side Tigers blasted luckless Coseley-based AFC Springfield

  • Pub used by violent gangs to reopen

    A PUB with a history of violence will be allowed to reopen after councillors rejected an application by police to have its licence revoked. Members of Dudley Council’s licensing sub-committee decided the owners of the The Crown in Simms Lane, Netherton

  • Former bricklayer scoops fourth professorship

    A FORMER bricklayer turned academic from Gornal has achieved further academic success by scooping his fourth Professorship spanning three different continents. David J Edwards, Professor of Plant and Machinery Management at Birmingham City University

  • Trapped woman injured in two-car crash

    A HORROR smash involving two cars left left one woman trapped and another injured in Dudley yesterday evening (Sunday January 20). The crash took place on Birmingham New Road in Coseley around just before 7pm, outside Rosewood Animal Hospital.

  • Man cut free from car after Lye crash

    A MAN had to be cut free from a car following a two-vehicle crash in Lye this morning Monday January 21. An ambulance and senior paramedic were called by police to the junction between Pedmore Road and Stourbridge Road just after 4am following a

  • Cold weather help on hand for rough sleepers

    THIS week is expected to see a drop in temperatures with freezing condition which is bad news for rough sleepers. According to the housing charity Shelter, the West Midlands has seen a rise of 2,400 to take the total number of homeless people in

  • Ale buffs get ready for Coombs Wood Winter Beer Festival

    BLACK Country drinkers will be raising a glass for the 16th Coombs Wood Winter Beer Festival later this month. Boozers will be able to imbibe 30 real ales and ciders at the event which takes place from Thursday, January 24 to Sunday January 27