LDRS Stories

Dudley’s council tax increase seems certain be 4.99 percent for the next three years regardless of who is in control.

Councillors in Walsall could be told what to wear following a request from the authority’s Reform leader, Councillor Elaine Williams.

A plan to convert a former police training centre into a 69-bed HMO has been thrown out again after receiving more than 800 objections.

There have been calls and vows to uncover the truth after a national grooming gangs inquiry announced recently that it would expand to Birmingham.

The Leather Museum’s future remains uncertain as Walsall College has remained silent over its lease of the building.

Dudley Council has scrapped means testing for late stage motor neurone disease (MND) patients after a woman died waiting for help.

Major plans to demolish a former police station and build new apartments in Ladywood have been given the green light.

Dudley’s leaders are facing calls for more detail on how a deal with Worcester University to run a new college collapsed.

A warrant has been issued against a Black Country builder accused of defrauding people of more than £130,000 after he failed to attend court.

A plan to open a children’s home in Wolverhampton that has been thrown out three times in the last two years will now be allowed to go ahead.

A new political group has been formed by ex-Reform councillors in Walsall.

A “deeply distraught” Birmingham Cantonese restaurant boss who admitted a string of hygiene failings has been fined thousands of pounds.

A Birmingham off licence was so overrun with rats it was forced to close for a couple of days, a court heard.

Two businesses on the same Birmingham road have been forced to close following the discovery of an infestation of pests.

The Conservative group leader in Walsall has raised concerns about a new West Midlands bus franchising system.

Labour MP Alex Ballinger says new planning rules which remove councillors’ right to ‘call-in’ applications for committee decisions will unblock the system.

Dudley Council has scrapped plans for a tip czar to find a permanent home for a household waste recycling centre (HWRC).

Birmingham City Council is set to fund roof replacement and repair works at a secondary school amid an ‘increasing risk of failure’.

The licence of a Walsall club which caused ‘serious endangerment to life’ will be reviewed by councillors next week.