A car has been seized by West Midlands Police[1] for the second time in three months after the driver failed to insure it. The dark-coloured Volkswagen Polo was pulled over by officers in the Brierley Hill[2] area of Dudley[3].
Cops said the vehicle ha…
A young boy was rushed to hospital after being hit by a car outside a primary school. The teenager was left with ‘serious but non-life threatening’ injuries following the collision in Wombourne.
The incident happened on Ounsdale Road, near Westfield Co…
Mahatma Gandhi said that there was a “higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience – it supercedes all other courts”.
However, Gandhi was highly unlikely to ever be caught drink driving or in possession of class A drugs and t…
The pioneering Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR) project has achieved a major milestone with successful running of the vehicle on its test track at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre.
The battery-powered vehicle and revolutionary track system…
The Coventry[1] Very Light Rail[2] (CVLR) project has successfully run a vehicle on its test track in Dudley.
The project aims to develop an urban rapid passenger transport system using battery-powered vehicles and an innovative thin track system, whic…
A 5km Parkrun was cancelled after a man’s body was found in woodland. West Midlands Police cordoned off the area in Dudley[1] earlier today, Saturday, October 28.
The running event – held at The Dell Stadium on Bryce Road, Pensnett, Brierley Hill, ever…
From left: Matthew Daly, Crissie Rushton, Shevaun Haviland, Sarah Moorhouse, Gareth Jones and Vikki Potts at the lunch
Shevaun Haviland was guest speaker at the Black Country Chamber of Commerce’s annual leaders’ lunch.
She said that chambers had bee…
A drink-driver caught behind the wheel of an Audi has been banned from the roads for two years. A woman who sped along the M6 in a Peugeot was also hauled before the courts.
She was one of several fined for breaking the speed limit on roads across the …
Dudley Bus Station will be demolished early next year ready for building work to start on the new £24m interchange.
The out-of-date bus station is being replaced with a new interchange as part of the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension.
Set to …
Paramedics have rushed to the scene of a medical incident on the Birmingham New Road in Tipton. West Midlands Ambulance Service[1] received a call at around 3.30pm today, Monday, October 16, and sent two ambulances, a paramedic officer and a critical c…
Lord Austin says Government must hold its nerve on HS2
Speculation has been mounting that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to shelve the northern leg of the high-speed rail line due to rising costs.
Ian Austin, now Lord Austin of Dudley, was ministe…
A yellow warning for Storm Agnes has been issued for much of the country from 10am on Wednesday to 7 am on Thursday.
The affected area spans from the southwest of England, to Scotland and across to Northern Ireland.
The Met Office[1] has said that “inj…
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Tamara Honeywell, 46, has had an interesting and varied global career, including playing professional football and cricket for Jamaica, before serving 10 years in the British Army. Veterans’ charity, Veterans into Logistics, has now helped Tamara into …