A SINGLE mum from Cradley Heath who started a support group for people with mental health problems has picked up a regional award. Samantha Chatwin, aged 31, has been given the West Midlands Thrive Black Country Individual Mental Health Star award
THE former Toys R Us store in Oldbury is set to be brought back into use. The store has been bought by Birmingham-based firm Hortons Estates, which is currently stripping out the site on Wolverhampton Road and seeking a new occupier to lease it.
A ‘WEALTHY’ Black Country pensioner accused of killing his 82-year-old wife by battering her has been remanded in custody by a judge at Warwick Crown Court. Pargan Singh Bhandal, aged 82, of Trehernes Drive, Pedmore, Stourbridge, appeared at the
FOOTBALL mad Stourbridge schoolboy Charlie Cowley, who has just returned to the pitch after gruelling chemotherapy treatment for leukaemia, had chance to meet his sporting heroes when he was treated to a day out at Everton Football Club. Charlie
A STARK naked driver overtook a line of cars waiting at a red light by road works – and ploughed into two workers, killing one of them, a young Dudley man, and badly injuring the other. Despite Sorin Laszlo’s victims being thrown onto the bonnet
With the coronavirus showing no signs of abating in the UK - four new cases were announced yesterday - we look at how the virus has spread so far. Our titles across the country have been working tirelessly to bring you the latest confirmed updates
A PROPOSED apartment block in Cradley Heath thrown out by councillors after nearby residents branded it an 'eyesore' could still go ahead after developers submitted a newer, smaller design. The original scheme for a 19-apartment block and two separate
A SPARKLING new glass museum in Wordsley is on track to open next year after being awarded almost £1million to complete its long-awaited internal fit out. Work to create the White House Cone Museum of Glass was completed in June 2016 and it has
TOWN hall bosses are excepted to approve plans that will see European brown bears return to Dudley for the first time in 40 years. Zoo chiefs hope councillors will approve a £250,000 scheme which will help bring back the animals, last homed on
