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Post Office consultation closes today

12:03pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

THE consultation over plans to close post offices across Stourbridge and Brierley Hill closes today (Tuesday October 7).

Runners rake in cash for Max Appeal

Elinor Atkinson, Beth Holman, Caitlin Atkinson, Lizzie Gaytten and Martha Gaytten gearing up for the Great South Run.

10:27am Tuesday 7th October 2008

CHARITY-MINDED runners are helping to give Wollaston’s Max Appeal a cash and profile boost by pounding the streets in both the Great North and Great South Runs.

Plea for help from Wordsley Festival chief

Nigel Morley is appealing for volunteers to help run Wordsley Festival

3:42pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

AS plans for the next Wordsley Festival take shape organisers are urging people to help run the community show.

People's Prize winners announced

Carrie Fertig’s piece Contentment

2:45pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

GLASS artists Carrie Fertig and Robyn Smith were voted equal winners of this year’s British Glass Biennale People’s Prize.

MP Pearson to lead fight against credit meltdown

Dudley South MP Ian Pearson will be at the centre of government plans to cope with the credit crunch

12:34pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

AS the global financial system crumbles Ian Pearson is in the frontline of action to cope with monetary meltdown.

Round Oak Steelworks sculpture causes uproar

10:44am Tuesday 7th October 2008

FORMER workers from a Brierley Hill steelworks are up in arms over the suggested position of a £70,000 sculpture to commemorate the factory.

Kingswinford pupils swap books for cooks

Pam Batta, centre, with parents and pupils in their new kitchen

10:08am Tuesday 7th October 2008

YOUNGSTERS at a Kingswinford school got a taste for culinary cooperation at the launch of a mammoth cooking project.

Students and MP discuss lap-dancing laws on TV

6:30pm Monday 6th October 2008

CHANNEL 4’s Dispatches programme tonight (Monday October 6) will see Stourbridge students and the town’s MP Lynda Waltho airing their views on the laws governing lap-dancing clubs.

Tributes to former top cop

Tributes to former top cop

5:00pm today Monday 6th October 2008

TRIBUTES have been flooding in for Black Country business leader and former police chief Mike Holder who died yesterday (Sunday October 5).

Brown's boost for Stourbridge MPs

Stourbridge MP Lynda Waltho was "surprised" after a weekend call from Gordon Brown

4:20pm Monday 6th October 2008

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown turned to Black Country MPs to fill key jobs in his latest reshuffle.


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Tattoo helped police track criminal

Aaron Evans was traced thanks to his tattoo

Updated 4:23pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

A car criminal who gave police everything they needed to know to track him down from a tattoo on his neck has been jailed.


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