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  • Choir concert will raise funds for breast cancer charity

    A STOURBRIDGE singers hope to raise the roof and funds to help women fighting breast cancer when they take to the stage at Birmingham's Symphony Hall this weekend. Members of the Stourbridge branch of Got 2 Sing Choir, plus other Got 2 members

  • Stourbridge brewery to host Dirty Dancing screening

    FANS of the smash hit 1987 movie Dirty Dancing can enjoy a trip down memory lane when Stourbridge's Green Duck Brewery hosts a community screening of the much-loved romantic flick that has stood the test of time. Daniel Kearns, who runs Friendly

  • 51 police workers convicted, investigation finds

    MORE than 50 West Midlands Police officers and staff have been convicted for crimes including offences as serious as making threats to kill, possessing indecent images of children, voyeurism, causing death by careless driving and road rage, an investigation

  • Woman injured after car overturns in Dudley

    A WOMAN was injured after a car overturned in Dudley. The woman managed to free herself from the car, which overturned on Woodland Avenue, near to Priory Park, just after 9pm last night (August 12). She received minor injuries and was taken to

  • Merry Hill to welcome region's first drive-thru bank

    BRIERLEY Hill is set to welcome the region's first drive-thru bank. Metro Bank, which opens seven days a week, is set to open a store at intu Merry Hill next month - creating 25 new jobs. The venture, which follows the launch of the firm's

  • Man rescued from canal

    A MAN has been rescued from a canal in Oldbury. Medics were called to the canal in Tat Bank Road last night (August 12) to reports of a man in the water. Ambulance staff worked with the fire crews from Oldbury, Woodgate Valley and Wednesbury

  • Apartments planned for former Duncan Edwards pub site

    AN apartment block is set to be built on the former site of a derelict Dudley pub. Dudley Council has granted permission for the construction of a three-storey block of 19 apartments on the site of the former Duncan Edwards pub on the corner of

  • One way system in place for electricity work

    A ONE-way system is in place along a Gornal road this week for electricity supply work to take place. Lake Street is only open one way to traffic from the junction with Humphry Street to the junction of Robert Street at the roundabout, in a westbound