Birmingham City News (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
These are heady times for the West Midlands. Three sides in the Premiership for the first time and the lipsmacking can be heard from Dudley to Aston to St Andrew's writes Jasper Carrott
bog-brush (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
A BOY has been taken to hospital with burns after attempting to break wind and set fire to the fumes. The 12-year-old was playing with a friend in a garden in Tipton, West Midlands, when a petrol can behind him caught fire yesterday. He was taken to Russells Hall Hospital, in Dudley - suffering from [...]
Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
London, Aug 25 : The deputy mayor of Dudley, West Midlands, has gone straight in to the record books after breaking a world record for flinging a frisbee.
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Council coffers across the West Midlands are being boosted by hundreds of thousands of pounds from shares they own in Birmingham International Airport. Together, all seven West Midlands authorities – Walsall, Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Solihull, … [visit site to read more]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Incinerators in parts of the West Midlands have breached pollution rules 114 times in the last five years, it has emerged. Figures obtained by the Express & Star from the Environment Agency show Wolverhampton’s Crown Street incinerator had 65 breaches and Dudley’s Lister Road plant had 49. Across the UK there were 285 … [visit site [...]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Two peregrine chicks rescued from a nest near Cannock in the West Midlands after their parents were killed in illegal traps have successfully flown the nest. The pair were placed in separate foster nests in Shropshire early last month, well away from the Cannock and Dudley areas … [visit site to read more]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Washing a mucky mutt at home can be messy business with the owner often ending up wetter than their beloved pooch. But now three dog lovers in Dudley are offering an easier option by opening the town’s first ever self-service dog wash – believed to be unique in the West Midlands. … [visit site to read [...]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Wolverhampton Civic Hall is to stage the West Midlands’ biggest fight for 25 years on Friday night – the British middleweight title between champion Wayne Elcock and Dudley’s Darren McDermott. … [visit site to read more]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is the only one in the West Midlands not to have completed its deep cleaning programme as part of a national drive to wipe out the threat of killer superbugs like MRSA.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 14/04/2008
The agony of the mortgage crisis is biting hardest in the West Midlands with a Halifax poll showing prices in Dudley down a whopping five per cent in four weeks.
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Dudley’s only driving test centre is under threat of closure as part of a shake-up in the West Midlands.
Matt Bernstein - Blog and Portfolio (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
The UK was shook by a quake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale, and originating in Dudley in the West Midlands. The quake was felt in most parts of the Midlands , Yorkshire and London and buildings shook for 30 seconds. BBC weather forecaster Pete Gibbs said: “It's not that unusual to have an earth tremor, but [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
A LAPTOP containing the medical records of more than 5,000 patients was stolen from Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, West Midlands, on January 8 it emerged today. Letters have been sent to those affected. (c) 2008 Daily Post; Liverpool.
Sim-O's Random Thoughts (Free subscription) | 15/02/2008
Independent : A laptop containing the medical records of more than 5,000 patients has been stolen from a hospital, it was revealed today. The computer was taken from the outpatients department at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, West Midlands, on January 8. It contains a database with information on 5,123 anticoagulation patients, the hospital said. Letters have been sent to those affected and police...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 15/02/2008
A COMPUTER containing the details of thousands of patients has been stolen from a West Midlands hospital. Letters are going out to more than 5,000 out-patients at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, following the theft, which is being probed by police.
