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  • 'Superhead' appointed as new college chair of governors

    EDUCATION 'superhead' Sir Dexter Hutt has been appointed to help turn around the fortunes of a Black Country college. Sir Hutt is to take over at Chair of the Corporation at Birmingham Metropolitan College which runs Stourbridge College and the

  • Wordsley mansion to become pub

    AN historic mansion near Wordsley is to be converted into a pub. Brunning and Price is turning Lawnswood House into The Roe Deer pub. The property, which was built in the Regency style between 1813 and 1816 for the family of iron manufacturer

  • Man denies driving car at Hob Green School pupils

    A MAN accused of deliberately ploughing his car into a group of people dropping their children off at a Stourbridge school has maintained to a jury he was not behind the wheel of the vehicle. The car struck several people including two young children

  • Police investigate after car crashes into lamp post

    ENQUIRIES have been launched after a car was abandoned by its occupants after it smashed into a lamp post in Wall Heath. The collision happened just before 3am on January 19 on Dudley Road. The car was left wedged to the lamp post, with witnesses

  • Stourbridge suffer more away woes

    STOURBRIDGE slipped to their seventh-successive away defeat against a well-drilled Hinckley side. Stour lost 15-7 as they failed to back up the following week's high-scoring home win over basement boys Peterborough Lions. It took 23 minutes for

  • Father subjected to terrifying metal pole attack outside home

    A FATHER has spoken out after he suffered a terrifying attack outside his home which saw him repeatedly bludgeoned with a metal pole. Barry Brittle, aged 44, was attacked by an unknown assailant as he made the short walk from his front door to his