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  • New £7.5million private hospital quietly opens in Stourbridge

    A NEW £7.5 million private hospital has quietly opened in Stourbridge. The state-of-the-art Ramsay Health Care UK facility was officially opened on Wednesday (October 14) by the chairman of NHS England Lord David Prior. Called the Stourside Hospital

  • Boost for Stourbridge children's charities

    TWO local children’s charity groups have each received £5,000 thanks to a campaign run by building developer. Stourbridge-based mainly music UK and the KIDS Orchard in Lye are sharing in the £1m fund run by Persimmon Homes Building Futures campaign

  • Jail for Lye man who punched woman in head

    A Lye man who punched a woman in the head has been jailed for 12 weeks. Magistrates decided prison was the only appropriate sentence because the woman, Kirsty Gwynne, was a public servant, the attack was deliberate, the defendant was already on

  • Holbeache Road, Wall Heath, closed due to A491 crash

    HOLBEACHE Road in Wall Heath has been closed due to a crash on the A491. The road is currently closed between Wolverhampton Road and Maidensbridge Road. Highways chiefs say the road has been shut while Cadent Gas carries out repairs to a leaking

  • Stourbridge mum's race against time to save her son

    WHAT Gemma Gregerson desperately needs is time – time to save her 8-year-old son’s life. To make that time the 28-year-old needs to raise £55,000 to take him to a clinic in Germany for a new treatment for his extremely rare brain cancer. A surge