Collis Street News Today

Amblecote pub The Robin Hood presented with CAMRA branch’s Pub of the Year award THE Robin Hood at Amblecote has been presented with its second…

DUDLEY Council has announced plans to install more than 50 charging points for electric cars on residential streets across the borough.

A MAN suffered minor injuries after a reported stabbing in Amblecote.

PLANS have been approved to convert a three-bedroom family home in Amblecote into two apartments.

A West Haven family whose uncle died after a fire last week has planted a Christmas tree in his memory and community members started decorating it. Frederick...

The roof collapsed at a single family home across from the West Haven Department of Public Works.

A Rowley Regis man has been given a suspended jail sentence after admitting weapons charges. Daemon Maher, aged 36 of Harvest Road, pleaded guilty to ‘buying or acquiring a weapon that discharged electricity’, and having an extendable baton in St Giles Avenue. He was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to pay £313 in costs. Magistrates said the offences were serious, but the weapons were not used in dangerous circumstances. Other recent cases at Dudley...

A Dudley drink-driver who had cocaine in his possession has been ordered to pay £719 in fines and costs and banned from driving for 22 months. Rafal Kulasinski, aged 28, of Brewery Street, had 87 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when he was tested after driving his Chevrolet Cruze in Tipton. The limit is 35. He admitted both charges. Other recent cases at Dudley Magistrates Court included: A Rowley Regis man has been given a suspended jail sentence after admitting we...

The director of a Stourbridge plumbing business has been given a suspended jail sentence for fraud after claiming his business was registered as “Gas Safe.’ Nicholas Marks admitted four charges while the company itself, Topmarks Plumbing Ltd of Ham Lane, Pedmore, admitted five. Magistrates heard that the firm wasn’t registered as ‘Gas Safe’ but misled customers into thinking it was by advertising the trademark on its website and then carrying out work it should not have. At Du...