When Paul Nicholls asked his dad for some pocket money, his father suggested instead that he should get a job. So he did – as a milkman. Although, as he was only six years old, he was more of a milkboy.

Fizzog Productions are bringing their unique brand of Black Country humour to Bridgnorth on Thursday.

Our am dram guru Alison Norton casts her expert eye over the shows that you should be looking out for this week – including the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast, Noel Coward’s This Happy Breed and a new play written by a member of Hagley Theatre Group.

The Shipley Campus of Walford and North Shropshire College, near Bridgnorth,  is due to launch a new full-time course in Animal Care from September 2012. There is a campus open day on Saturday, February 11. 2012.

Our undercover meal reviewer, The Insider, discovers some good, honest straightforward grub at a traditional village pub.

Black Country humour will be top of the bill as a theatre group embarks on one of its biggest comedy tours to date.

A soldier was hailed a hero today after wading into the River Severn to help rescue a stranded woman.

A new buffet, shop and toilets could be built at Bridgnorth’s Severn Valley Railway as part of a master plan for the site.

More than 200,000 people have so far taken a trip on the Severn Valley Railway this year, new figures show. 

The police officer who helped bring notorious serial killer Donald Neilson to justice today said he hoped his death has brought some closure for the families of his victims.