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  • Dirty Lye restaurant fined over hygiene failings

    A LYE restaurant has been hit with a hefty court bill after serious hygiene failings were discovered. Dudley Council’s environmental health officers took the case against Isha’s Indian restaurant in Stourbridge Road following an inspection in October

  • Free swimming extended to all school holidays

    FREE swimming for children across the borough will be extended to include all school holidays, starting from this Easter. A trial during last year's summer holidays saw more than 14,000 children take advantage of free swimming at Dudley, Crystal

  • Location of new travellers site kept secret

    AGREEMENT on a controversial travellers’ site for Dudley has taken a step forward after Labour and Conservatives councillors met to thrash out a compromise. But the location for the hotly disputed caravan park is being kept under wraps as local

  • Beacon League: Trysull pushing for honours

    SIX-hitters Trysull Tigers are showing no sign of easing up in their push for first season honours on the Beacon Sunday league front. Seven days on from reaching The Sports Shop Kingswinford Clinton Cup final the Tigers continued to impress in the

  • West Midlands League: Tividale hit Shifnal for six

    TIVIDALE took a giant stride towards lifting this season's West Midlands League title after hitting sorry Shifnal Town for six. Demetri Brown cast aside his recent goal drought by netting twice to take his league tally to 28 this term. Dead

  • Dudley teenager hurt by robber armed with a gun

    A TEENAGER was injured by a robber who threatened him with a gun during a terrifying attack in Dudley. The 16-year-old was approached by a man holding a gun on Clifton Street, Hurst Hill at around 6.30pm on Friday March 15. The teenager was hit

  • Thieves steal dumper truck from Rowley Regis building site

    A THREE-tonne dumper truck was stolen from a building site in Rowley Regis by opportunistic thieves. The crooks struck at premises on Throne Road at some point between 4.30pm on Wednesday (March 13) and 7.35pm on Thursday (March 14). They removed

  • Before the courts: the latest from Dudley Magistrates' Court

    A BRIERLEY Hill man stole £30 of chocolate from a convenience store, Dudley Magistrates’ Court has heard. Wesley Smile, aged 30, of Chapel Court, Brierley Hill, pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing chocolate from One Stop Convenience Store,