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  • Lye and Wollescote Cemetery Chapels to become wedding venue

    COUPLES will be able to tie the knot at historic Lye and Wollescote Cemetery Chapels which are to be given a new lease of life as a wedding venue.The West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust scooped just over £1million from the Heritage Lottery Fund

  • Deborah Bonham to play at Moochers in Stourbridge

    DEBORAH Bonham and her band will be dropping into Stourbridge bar Moochers this Friday (April 25) to perform tracks from their latest album 'Spirit' which was released last month. Sister of legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Deborah has

  • Stourbridge to host pensioners' rights roadshow

    THE West Midlands Pensioners Convention will be bringing its Pensioners’ Rights Roadshow to town this weekend ahead of the launch of a new Stourbridge branch.The event, taking place in the Ryemarket, off Stourbridge High Street, on Saturday April

  • Before the courts

    The following appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court between April 14-17: Luke Jonathon Cartwright, aged 27, of Furlong Walk, Lower Gornal, was sent to prison for 16 weeks for stealing meat, coffee and aftershave from various supermarkets in Dudley

  • Black Country pub burglar jailed

    A SERIAL burglar who carried out raids on Black Country pubs has been put behind bars. Trevor Hollis, targeted various pubs in Stourbridge and Dudley, stealing charity boxes and money from gaming machines, pool tables and juke boxes. Hollis

  • Pub safety scheme launched in Kingswinford and Wordsley

    PUB landlords in Kingswinford and Wordsley will now share information in a bid to crackdown on booze related crime. The licensees have signed up to a Pub Watch scheme, supported by Dudley Council, the police and the borough's business crime partnership

  • Three injured after car hits bridge in Kingswinford

    A MAN and two women were taken to hospital after a crash involving the car they were in and a bridge in Kingswinford at the weekend. The driver, a man in his 20s, suffered a broken leg in the incident which happened in Bromley Lane just before

  • Stourton set for latest table top sale

    STOURTON Village Hall will be staging a May fair and table top sale on Saturday May 10 to help raise funds for the venue. The village hall first opened in 1969 and is a trustee run registered charity which means it has to provide its own finance

  • DANCE 'TIL DAWN - Theatre Review

    DANCE 'TIL DAWN AT THE NEW ALEXANDRA THEATRE, BIRMINGHAM Theatre Run: Monday 21 - Saturday 26 April 2014 Performance Reviewed: Monday 21 April 2014 (Press Night) Reviewed by Kyle Pedley I loved Midnight Tango - last years dance vehicle