Local Headlines from Sunday, February 22nd, 2026

More than 800 unemployed young people across the West Midlands have already benefitted from a £5m job support fund secured by Mayor Richard Parker under the government’s Get Britain Working initiative.

On the day before the clocks go back, Saturday 28 March at 9.00am, a new community race will be trialled by the Friends of Swan Pool Park.

People living in a Netherton street claim trees are wrecking their homes and Dudley Council is ‘not listening to their concerns’.

An 18-year-old teenager who tragically died after being stabbed in Smethwick has been named as Zeshan Afzal.