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Dedicated online support is available to help young people with additional needs or disabilities and their parents or carers.

Grants are being offered to community groups and regional organisations to help them connect people to nature, thanks to new funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority.

One year on from residents near the A456 raising concerns, Halesowen and Rowley Regis MP, James Morris has welcomed the progress being taken to tackle illegal car cruising.

Dudley Council is set to sell Halesowen's Cornbow Hall after revealing the town centre venue is losing £100,000 a year.

A historic blue plaque to remember Dudley-born Percy Shakespeare has been unveiled by the Mayor of Dudley in recognition of his contribution to art.

An artist impression of new affordable council homes which could replace an unsightly row of shops in Colley Gate has been released.

Ahead of a brand-new, multi-million pound land opening soon, a search has been launched in Birmingham to find children aged eight and under who are passionate about nature and conservation, to become a ‘Twycross Zoo Discoverer’.

Work is set to begin on a new off-road cycle route along the A4123 Birmingham New Road in Sandwell which will boost residents’ wellbeing through physical activity and encourage them to travel safely and sustainably.

More patients across the West Midlands could be given cycling and walking on prescription after a successful pilot showed improvements in participants’ physical and mental health.

During 2021 Emma challenged herself to walk 30 miles in each month to raise money for The Mary Stevens Hospice as a way of celebrating the organisations 30th anniversary year.

People are invited to join Birmingham Rep for a true one-off, hilarious, and entertaining event, The Covid-19 Variations on 8 & 9 February 2022.

A woman who died following a collision in Wordsley, near Stourbridge earlier this month has been named as Phyllis May Fielding.

Dudley’s new £18 million leisure centre opened its doors to the public this week and marked a new era for the borough.

As England returns to COVID Plan A, Sandwell Council encourages residents, visitors and students to continue to wear face coverings in enclosed or crowded spaces.

A councillor is taking part in a charity boxing match to raise money for the Mayor of Dudley’s charities.

Lock gates on the Black Country's historic canals are regularly maintained and the gate at number three lock was nearly 25 years old and had come to the end of its working life.

Andy Street led a litter pick along the canals of central Birmingham at the weekend as part of a campaign to get the region looking its best ahead of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

People who want to showcase their mental health heroes in this year’s West Midlands Star Awards have just one week to register their nominations.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is proud to announce it provides an inclusive online experience by providing its website visitors additional accessibility and language support functions.

The Mayor of Sandwell will lay two wreaths of yellow daffodils on behalf of Sandwell Council and the West Midlands Lieutenancy in the memorial gardens at Highfields on Holocaust Memorial Day.

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A Sandwell man has been jailed following a series of burglaries across the Black Country last year after CCTV was shared on social media.

People eligible for their first, second or COVID-19 booster jab are invited to walk-in and ‘grab a jab’ this week, with no appointment necessary.

Stourbridge MP Suzanne Webb has welcomed encouraging jobs data for the constituency as the area recovers from the pandemic.

Compton Care has announced the return of its Sahara trek fundraiser, 17 years after the Wolverhampton-based charity last held the desert-conquering challenge.

Local campaigners have hit back at plans to replace dilapidated shop frontages at the junction of Colley Gate and Colley lane saying they want 'action not words'.

A takeaway boss who failed to meet basic food hygiene standards was fined thousands of pounds in court.

Groups and individuals have the chance to share an idea and get support to ‘Make it Happen’ as part of a Dudley Council initiative.

Road repairs have more than quadrupled across Dudley borough as council bosses pledge another £1 million boost to blitz potholes and other defects on the highway this year.

Leading authentic German bratwurst fast-food brand, Extrawurst’s first ever UK restaurant in the Merry Hill Centre was declared officially open last week.

A teenager has been pinned to the ground and robbed in a ‘shocking’ attack in Stourbridge.

Dudley Leisure Centre opened its doors for the final time yesterday ahead of an exciting, brand new £18 million state-of-the-art site opening across the town centre.

The theatre has partnered with Nant, a specialist water safety company based in Wolverhampton to extend its Dementia provision for 2022.

Shoppers are invited to welcome in the Year of the Tiger at Bullring & Grand Central with a day of free performances on Saturday 5 February.

The Rep’s most intimate theatre space, The Door will welcome back artists and audiences from next month, for the first time since March 2020.

Tickets go on sale today for a 'first of its kind' collaboration between Rambert Dance Company, Birmingham Hippodrome and the team behind Peaky Blinders.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has received reaccreditation to the prestigious Investing in Volunteers Standard, following its original accreditation from January 2018 to January 2021. 

Bosses have confirmed that the new branch on the Merry Hill Retail Park in Brierley Hill will open for the first time on Thursday 20th January.

The initiative to give towns under the British Monarch the opportunity sees Dudley and 38 other locations vying for the chance to become a city.

Two people have died and another has been taken to hospital following a road traffic collision in Birmingham last night.

Dudley Zoo's female Linne’s two-toed sloth, Flo, has been named as the attraction’s most adopted animal of 2021.

Full casting has been announced for a musical based on the life of one of the most famous singing families of all time.

Entrepreneurs and innovators from across the West Midlands will have a unique opportunity to develop and grow their businesses by meeting with potential investors and other cutting-edge companies at a free event this spring.

A Dudley MP is calling for local heroes to help carry the Queen’s Baton in the Relay ahead of this summer’s Commonwealth Games.

Following the final performance of Cinderella at Wolverhampton Grand last week, bosses are celebrating after successfully completing the full pantomime season in such uncertain times.

Dudley’s new £18 million Duncan Edwards leisure centre will open to the public before the end of the month, it was announced today.

A group of young members from Dudley’s children in care council have launched the annual Children in Care & Care Leavers Awards.

The West Midlands Police Museum has existed in different formats since the 1960s, but is about to re-open in its biggest and most accessible location yet - the Steelhouse Lane Lock-up!

Gurcharan Singh Sidhu, who represented Greets Green and Lyng ward on the council for 32 years between 1986 and 2018, passed away last week, aged 88.

Sandwell Council along with partner organisations is asking for feedback on its draft Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan

The new look centre has opened to the public after undergoing a multi-million-pound revamp.

Sandwell council refused to let a vulnerable mother have her representative present at an important meeting and made serious and unsubstantiated allegations about both of them during an investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

A 20 year-old man’s been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a shooting in Bartley Green on Sunday.