Brierley Hill, England News

YOUNGSTERS across the region can play-up in style after the completion of the latest phase of a A 2.6m playgrounds upgrade.

CHRISTMAS for the majority of our ancestors was most probably a joyous, happy occasion, albeit a simple affair with extra morsels of food appearing on the kitchen table as if by magic, and hand-made toys for the kids produced in secret during evenings after the children had gone to bed.

STOURBRIDGE and Brierley Hill Round Table will be hitting Stourbridge's streets with their annual Santa and his sleigh tour tonight .

A 49-YEAR-old Dudley Wood woman has been handed five community orders after fraudulently gaining money from a Cradley Heath Brownie troop.

COPS are linking an attempted bank raid in Brierley Hill with a string of similar offences around the Black Country.

FIRE FIGHTERS have been battling a blaze at a Sedgley pub this morning. The fire at The Clifton on the Bull Ring, is the second arson attack at the premises in eight weeks.

KIDNPAPPED Charlie the goat has been reunited with his overjoyed Dudley owner. Little Ruby Edwards, a pupil at Brierley Hill Primary School, was distraught after the animal - an eight-month-old white Saneen goat - was stolen from a field near Bridgnorth at the weekend.

AN elderly woman was treated by paramedics for smoke inhalation at the scene of a house fire in Kingswinford.

OLD Stourbridge girl has been left heartbroken following the theft of her pet goat.

A MAJOR regeneration masterplan for Brierley Hill will move a step closer when Dudley Council submits a A 7.8m bid for cash.

A MAN who tried to smuggle heroin into Brierley Hill Police Station has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

RISING Brierley Hill vehicle crime has prompted a crackdown by cops with a "don't bother" message to crooks.

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A BRIERLEY Hill man who used a brick to beat a neighbour into unconsciousness had his potentially lifelong jail sentence overturned by top judges on appeal.

A STOURBRIDGE man who grew cannabis plants worth nearly A 7,000 has been spared time behind bars.

DESPITE American singer/songwriter Don McLean's assertion 'the day the music died'... in his classic 1971 song 'American Pie', it has certainly not proved the case with popular Dudley pop group 'Finders Keepers' who, after more than four decades, are still together and are to appear on 'Aynuck's Christmas Variety Show' at Brierley Hill Civic Hall ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular borough stalwart, who has died suddenly of a suspected heart attack.

A WOMAN was left shocked but unhurt after her car plunged down a railway embankment in Stourbridge.

STOURBRIDGE and Brierley Hill Round Table will be hitting the borougha s streets with their annual Santa and his sleigh tour.

HEARTED volunteers have been busy wrapping gifts to put smiles on the faces of hundreds of needy youngtsters this Christmas.