Ken Dodd may have been playing to packed-out concert halls for more than 50 years, but he still shows no signs of stopping, as Nigel Green found out. Ken Dodd may be 78, but when he steps out on stage he seems to have the energy of a man half his age.
Vintage Sex Pistols artwork is among the items on sale in a design auction in Stourbridge.
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Popstar Peter Andre loves showbusiness - but he loves his family more. He was meeting his fans today, signing his autobiography at the Merry Hill Centre.
Chart-topping band McFly are due to play sell-out gigs at the NEC next week. Fiona McCartney talks to the lads who are currently one of the hottest properties on the music scene. With an astonishing run of chart-topping singles and albums, industry awards and sold-out arena dates under their low-riding belts McFly have cemented their […]
Life has never been rosier for Black Country Pop Idol runner-up Mark Rhodes - or so it would seem.
Plucked from obscurity thanks to Pop Idol, the local lad who once sang in pub karaoke sessions has been headhunted by the BBC to bring back the glory days of Saturday morning TV.
A top British film director is to visit Stafford to open the town’s annual film festival.
Debbie Isitt’s new movie Confetti will open the festival at the Gatehouse Theatre on Tuesday, October 3 at 7.30pm.
A popular panto star has praised changes to Lichfield’s theatre following a controversial change in management.
Jimmy Cricket is thrilled with alterations made to the Garrick, following the appointment of artistic director Adrian Jackson. Mr Jackson took over from Paul Everitt, who resigned in June after suspension from his post in January.
The Black Country’s award-winning actress Julie Walters and Rupert Grint - best known as the ginger-headed Ron Weasley - were joined by their Harry Potter co-stars at the premiere of their new film Driving Lessons. The pair who play mother and son in the spell-binding films were greeted by scores of Potter fanatics outside the […]
By her own admission, Janine Christley didn’t know the first thing about glass when she arrived in Stourbridge six years ago. But for the organiser of this weekend’s International Festival of Glass, it is a subject which right now is dominating almost her every waking moment.
It was a hot summer’s day in 1970. Paignton beach was packed with holidaymakers, many of them from the Black Country. And Scott of the Antarctic, covered in fur, turns up with a sledge pulled by a motley crew of mongrels badly disguised as huskies.
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