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Outdoor learning festival at Oldbury school

Brandhall Primary School in Oldbury is organising a two-day Outdoor Learning Festival next month.


Kidderminster plumber spared jail over £2,000 tap bill

A plumber who billed an Oldbury pensioner £2,224 after being called out to his home to repair a leaky tap has been spared a prison sentence.


Pregnant woman is target of Oldbury carjacker

A heavily pregnant woman, who was taken on a terrifying ride by a carjacker before being forced out of the moving Range Rover, today told of her ordeal and said: “I feared I was going to die”.


Oldbury site now lined up for Sandwell free school

A new girls’ free school in Sandwell could move into an Oldbury school building once pupils there move to a £20 million new site.


Skip full of tyres on fire in Oldbury

Firefighters were called to a burning skip containing tyres and scrap metal in West Bromwich.


‘Magical’ time on stage for Smethwick pupils

Children, staff and parents from Crocketts Community Primary School, in Smethwick, were treated to a ‘magical’ performance of Jon Shepherd’s Reuben Whizzbanger’s Magical Museum, by year 3 and 4.


Work due to start on new ambulance base

Work on a new ambulance hub for more than 200 staff is due to start in the Black Country this week.


Man in siege on roof of primary is jailed

A man who hurled tiles at police in a 90 minute siege after being caught trying to steal lead from the roof of a West Midland primary school has been jailed for 16 months.


Charity’s relief as designer clothes con couple jailed

A Staffordshire charity that fell victim to a married couple who sold on its cheap designer clothes for hugely inflated prices today declared: “Justice has been done” – as the couple behind the con were jailed.


£1m rip-off over fake designer clothes racket

A husband and wife ran a £1million fake designer clothes racket from their home, while also buying cheap outfits from a Staffordshire charity and selling them for a huge profit, a court heard.

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