A meeting of the full council on November 2 will debate a members’ pledge setting standards of behaviour which all 72 councillors will be expected to abide by.
Cllr Shaukat Ali, the longest serving British Kashmiri Muslim councillor in Dudley’s history, received the freedom of the borough in recognition of his 27 years of service to the community.
Health Innovation Dudley, on the site of the demolished Hippodrome theatre in the town centre, was set to open this autumn but just a few weeks before the university pulled out.
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