Stories for 7 October 2005
News
THE Friends of Mary Stevens Park are joining forces with Mary Stevens Hospice to stage a 5km fundraising walk this Christmas. more...
Here we go again. Dudley Council that purports to listen to its citizens and who says its chief responsibility is to 'accept that public satisfaction is our primary responsibility' again tries to trample through half baked and unsustainable proposals. more...
Dudley MBC's decision to close five primary schools in Dudley is perhaps the worst decision the local authority has ever made about education. more...
My son William was born at Russells Hall on January 30 this year and my experience was vastly different to that of Stephanie Jackson. (Dudley News September 22) more...
My name is Tracey Thomas and I'm a mother of five. My first four children were born at Wordsley Hospital but my youngest was born at Russell's Hall. more...
Options of schools for our kids to attend are Wrens Nest and Bramford. more...
In recent years Pensnett has been decimated by the loss of community services, particularly health facilities. The last blow was the closure of our chemist shop. more...
Members had an enjoyable meeting on 21st September catching up with affairs which had gone one during the summer break, especially the garden meeting. more...
President Diane Jones welcomed members back to the WI after the summer break and into a new round of activities. Choir practise will begin shortly for a Christmas Concert and the Craft group start the season on October 17 with a lesson in `Quiling'. more...
Results: Friday Sept 16, Multi-Teams, Ron Court, David Heard, Ray Swift and Peter Edwards; Monday Sept 19, Olga Andrews and Peter Edwards, Pam Houghton and Josie Bennett; Tuesday Sept 20, Ian and Georgina Lineker, Tony Norgrove and Peter Edwards; Wednesday Sept 21 Olga Andrews and Derek Ryder, David Horton and Angela Cowdry; Thursday Sept 22 Geoff and Betty Darby, Alan Jenkins and Josie Bennett. more...
The Probus Club met at the Talbot Hotel on September 20 for their monthly luncheon meeting. more...
Our September meeting was quite eventful. more...
OUR first meeting after the holiday was well supported by the existing members, one new member and two visitors. more...
Amblecote Wordsley Methodist Church celebrated the merger between the two congregations with a faith supper and entertainment at 4.30pm on 11th September 11. more...
Chairman Sylvia Taylor welcomed members to the September meeting. more...
New ways of learning were on the menu for Dudley business leaders at the re-launch of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce Business Lunch Club at the Ward Arms Hotel, Dudley. more...
A GORNAL school is pleading with the public to help raise more than £1.5 million in a bold bid to replace its `woeful' sports hall. more...
YOUNG dancers returned home to Sedgley with a clutch of prizes after taking part in the Yorkshire Dance Championships. more...
THE Prime Minister could be sampling a good old-fashioned pint of Black Country bitter after a Dudley MP won his campaign to get it introduced into Westminster. more...
A WOMAN from Brierley Hill and two men from Wall Heath and Dudley have appeared at court charged with running a brothel. more...
A REQUEST to have novelty toy pigs removed from council office desks is nothing short of `political correctness gone mad' according to one fuming councillor. more...
IT WAS lights, camera, action at a Dudley children's home when a film crew dropped into capture the award-winning facility. more...
IT was a case of lights, camera, action when thousands of people flocked to the Waterfront's biggest ever Festival of Water and Light. more...
FIREFIGHTERS across the borough say their morale has hit rock bottom because new working conditions are causing chaos. more...
PAINTINGS which have been hidden away for years will be given a dust down for an exhibition in Dudley marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. more...
St Thomas' Community Network will be holding its AGM on Tuesday November 1. more...
GREEN-FINGERED youngsters from Kate's Hill Primary have picked up a prize for their ground-breaking work creating a vegetable patch in school. more...
KIND-hearted animal lovers have been warned to keep their eye out for bogus charity collectors scouring the streets of Dudley for donation bags. more...
A TRIO of Dudley dance stars are vowing to get the town's toes tapping thanks to a grant to bring professional artists to the region. more...
LEADING Labour councillors fighting against controversial plans to axe five borough schools say they hope to extend the consultation period by three months. more...
This year's crop of construction trainees has laid the foundations on a Dudley Council- backed building apprenticeship. more...
HOSPITAL DJs went out and about around Russells Hall as part of a week of events on the wards. more...
A DUDLEY project supporting people with brain damage is urging more borough folk to use the service. more...
A BROKMOOR man was sent down for two months after causing £350 worth of damage while under a conditional discharge. more...
DUDLEY-based Cancer Support will be busy next month when it hosts a variety of talks as part of Breast Awareness Month. more...
ELLOWES Hall School is celebrating after five maths mad pupils picked up top grades. more...
A SCHIZOPHRENIC who stabbed two shoppers at the Merry Hill shopping centre has been detained in a mental hospital. more...
DUDLEY Council has rubbished fears putting the wheels in motion for the midland metro scheme may leave the council's bank balance high and dry. more...
A YOUNG girl was left fighting for her life after a tragic accident in a Brierley Hill car park. more...
BRAVE workers at a Dudley building firm were breaking the pain barrier during a sponsored leg wax in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief. more...
POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a teenage girl from Hollyhall who has been missing for a week. more...
A FORMER TV director will be talking about his life and Christian faith at a men's evening in Dudley on Monday October 17. more...
SPORTY school kids at Woodsetton School will be able to top up their talents thanks to their very own coach. more...
St Thomas' Community Network in Beechwood Road, Kate's Hill, is holding its annual general meeting on November 1 at 5.30pm. more...
A Dudley primary school has picked up a top education accolade for its work improving youngsters' reading, writing and arithmetic skills. more...
The Bishop of Worcester The Rt Rev Dr Peter Selby will at an event titled Mission-Shaped Church at Saltwells education development centre next month. more...
IT seems that in every edition of the Stourbridge News some health fascist is demanding an end to long enjoyed freedoms. more...
WHAT a terribly evil letter from Peter Goring in this week's Stourbridge News, saying we should be ashamed to be British and that we are a hundred times worse than Saddam Hussein! more...
THE news that Dudley Council bosses have ordered staff not to display anything that relates to a pig - be it Winnie the Pooh and Piglet tissues or a traditional Piggy Bank - because a Muslim worker claimed to have been upset just shows what a wimpish nation we have become. more...
THE silly season is here again! more...
I AM surprised and disappointed to read that Dudley Council are considering turning green belt land into a car park for Ashwood Primary School (September 8). more...
IT is distressing to observe the anti-war one-sidedness which infects the majority of opinion pieces regarding Iraq. Examples include the little horror from Peter A. Goring in the September 22 edition, in which he advocates the re-installation of Saddam in order the benefit innocent Iraqis. Quite what state of mind could induce one to write such things is not for me to speculate upon, so I will refrain from doing so. I will settle for pointing out that there was little or no enjoyment of daily living under Saddam, as he so rashly asserts. Daily living consisted of trying to avoid detention, torture, rape and murder at the whim of government thugs. As Mr Goring considers himself "ashamed to be British", here is my advice: if the aforementioned is what he considers good "regulation" of a country then I suggest he find one similar and apply for citizenship. more...
ON Tuesday September 27 my wife, Sonia, and I made a bus, train and Metro journey from home, through Stourbridge to Birmingham and back through Wolverhampton. more...
I HAVE just returned from a visit to Corbett Hospital for a blood test. more...
WHEN I first read the letter that dropped through my letter box on that Saturday morning, three days after my daughters first day at school, the first words that come to mind were disgust, outrage and sadness. more...
MAIDENSBRIDGE School is wonderful. It has a relaxed atmosphere and still manages to come third in those league tables. more...
MAIDENSBRIDGE School is truly wonderful. more...
AFTER recently attending an LEA meeting designed to discuss the possible closure of Maidensbridge Primary School, I was disgusted to learn that council officials themselves were unable to answer questions put to them. more...
WHEN my daughter returned to school a few weeks ago we were looking forward to another happy year at school. more...
A STOURBRIDGE father and son have been warned they face jail after admitting they disturbed some of the UK's rarest birds of prey in Scotland. more...
A YOUNG girl was badly injured after a tragic accident in a Brierley Hill car park. more...
ALTHOUGH many of his former music idols are now firm friends, Stourbridge rock star Matt Vale still finds it "strange" when he hears his own songs on the radio. more...
A WALL HEATH youngster has been given the chance to fulfil her dream of playing for her beloved football club - The Baggies. more...
A WOMAN from Brierley Hill and two men from Wall Heath and Dudley appeared at court charged with running a brothel. more...
CONCERN is mounting Dudley Council's handling of the consultation over plans to axe five primary schools is `incompetent or dishonest'. more...
A NORTON man who had a New Year's day row with his alcoholic wife threw a saucepan of boiling water over her and left the house looking as though it had been hit by an earthquake, a court heard. more...
THE family of a young Hagley man who died of pneumonia have paid tribute to the tragic 26-year-old who was "loved by everybody". more...
DISABLED elderly and pram-pushing shoppers will benefit from a dozen new pedestrian crossing points installed on a busy route into Stourbridge town centre. more...
AN outraged mum says Dudley Council hasn't done its homework over `ludicrous' proposals to shut down a Quarry Bank Primary School. more...
FIREFIGHTERS across the borough say their morale has hit rock bottom because new working conditions are causing chaos. more...
A TEENAGE tearaway who carried out distraction burglaries in Kingswinford has been jailed. more...
STOURBRIDGE MP Lynda Waltho has joined forces with a group of town historians, councillors, conservationists and residents to help save the decaying Foster and Rastrick foundry in Wollaston. more...
A STOURBRIDGE nightporter who tampered with a CCTV camera at a block of flats for the elderly after complaining he did not want to be filmed eating and drinking has been awarded more than £11,000 for unfair dismissal. more...
A DUDLEY breast cancer survivor will be stepping out at Himley Park next month to help raise much needed cash for research. more...
A STOURBRIDGE man with a blatant disregard for the law has been jailed for a string of motoring offences. more...
HEALTH chiefs say they have plenty to shout about despite a gloomy financial forecast. more...
FAMOUS impressionist Alistair McGowan has been solving murder mysteries in Stourbridge as part of a new BBC drama series, Mayo. more...
OWNERS of horse boxes have been warned to be vigilant after a spate of thefts in recent weeks. more...
