THE team behind the Black Country Festival have scooped a national award in recognition of their bostin’ community campaign. Dudley Council was voted winner in the Community Engagement Campaign of the Year category in the 2015 PRmoment Awards.
GENEROUS donations have meant the Lye based Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has been able to expand its service to include night-time flying – for the first time in its 23-year history. The charity traditionally operated its three aircraft for 14
TRANSPORT cops have issued an image of a man they want to speak to following an incident of racial abuse on a Midlands train. British Transport Police are making the appeal after complaints were received about a group of men on the 5.45pm Birmingham
Good evening traffic and travel fans. Here’s the info you need for an easier ride home this Thursday evening. Motorists are warned to expect delays as the A4101 High Street in Pensnett is closed eastbound between the Dreadnought Road junction
THERE has been precious little between the two teams locked together in pursuit of what would be their first Premier Division championship, but there was a major change in fortune as Norton Social A lost for only the third time to hand rivals Hotshots
A WOLLASTON pub has managed to raise almost £2,000 for the Leukaemia Unit Appeal Fund in just four weeks. Members of The Foresters Arms, in Bridgnorth Road, collected money during various events which were held at the pub over the Christmas period
THE Stourbridge News is joining forces with caring school pupils to help save young lives in Africa. We have teamed up with Ridgewood High School to launch an appeal to raise £10,000 for a water pump and irrigation system in the Gambian village
LYE Town's slump in form continued as they lost 3-0 away to Quorn on Tuesday night.The defeat handed Town their third successive defeat where they have also conceded three goals.However, joint-boss Martin Thomas is confident his players will turn it around
NEIL Mitchell is targeting a win against Sedgley Park this Saturday to make sure the threat of relegation doesn't return for Stourbridge. The Stourton Park outfit are now 12 points away from the dropzone but Mitchell wants to extend the gap sooner
A KIND-hearted Stourbridge piano teacher has brought melodic memories back to care home residents with his musical donation. Graeme Ponder donated a piano to Iverley-based High Lodge Care Home after he was told staff were on the lookout for one
STOURBRIDGE assistant manager Jon Ford admits that confidence levels have hit rock bottom. The Glassboys have not won in seven games after their poor form continued with a 2-1 away defeat against Witton Albion on Tuesday night. The defeat followed
TWO people are being searched for by West Midlands Police after they were involved in violent disorder at a Stourbridge music venue. The disorder occurred at River Rooms, in Mill Race Lane, on Saturday January 24. Anyone with information should
SEVENTY years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the concentration and extermination camps responsible for the deaths of more than a million people. Reporter Liz Sharpe joined a group of students from Stourbridge as they visited the
PROMINENT Stourbridge racehorse owners Grahame and Diana Whateley say that popular chaser Wishfull Thinking carries their best chance of a winner at this year's Cheltenham Festival. Their focus is likely to lie solely on the 12-year-old in the
THE first time members of the public have been invited in to the new £1.9 million Kinver Community Fire Station has been marked with the burial of a time capsule. Prior to an open day where Kinver residents and local people could take a look around
