JOBLESSNESS has rocketed in the Dudley area by 75%, with almost one in ten people claiming unemployment benefit. But now a £238m scheme has been launched to try to help people across the Black Country get back into work. New figures from the
BANK bosses say the Stourbridge branch of Barclays will re-open on Monday after a deep clean after a positive case of Covid-19 was confirmed at the branch. The High Street bank shut its doors to customers temporarily after a case of the virus was
HERE are more pictures from inside the new apartments being developed in Stourbridge's former police station. The former Stourbridge Police Station has been transformed by Lovell Homes into 31 one and two-bedroom apartments, with some unique mezzanine
A Stourbridge man who drove while unfit through drugs has been banned and fined. Mather James Carradine, aged 48, of Kennedy Court, Green Street, pleaded guilty to the offence in Lye. He was banned for 17 months, fined £200 and ordered to pay £34
POLICE clocked 11 drivers speeding along the Thorns Road, Quarry Bank, in a traffic operation yesterday. Student officers working with response officers from Brierley Hill Police Station carried out the operation on the busy road yesterday afternoon
CAMPAIGNERS are expected to rally in Stourbridge at lunchtime today (Saturday October 24) to highlight their opposition to plans for a US trade deal. Members of Dudley Momentum, West Mids Internationalists and Global Justice Now are expected to
THE DUDLEY ambassador for a cancer charity enlisted the help of a special friend when he set out to show just what a positive attitude can do. Halesowen was the scene of a world record as a former Commonweath discuss thrower showed positivity can
