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A food bank, started by an 11-year-old, is expanding as a ‘heart-breaking’ number of people need help.

A HANDFUL of Redditch businesses have received top marks from the Food Standards Agency.

COLDFIELD Drive, Redditch from its junction with Castleditch Lane for 210 metres in an easterly direction will be closed for one day on December 17.

Three reports of criminal damage have been made overnight in Redditch. TWO vehicles and a door have been damaged overnight in Redditch. Three incidents of criminal damage were reported overnight on Batchley Road, Oak Tree Avenue and Beech Tree Close. Two vehicles were damaged with bricks and a residents door was also smashed with a brick. It is believed that the incidents happened between 00:30 and 02:00 this morning (May 9.) Police are appealing for anyone with information to either email BC.snt@westmercia.pnn.police.uk or to call CrimeStoppers quoting the log number 00224_i_090520...

A DELIVERY driver has voiced his frustration after being moved from 'one rat infested home to another' in Redditch. Darren Upton, a Redditch Borough Council tenant for 30 years, says he has been waiting nearly nine months to return to his home on Batchley Road whilst repair work is carried out. However, after visiting the home, he now feels it's been made "ten times as bad" after finding footprints, holes and damaged tiles. He says that the council home on Salters Lane where he currently lives also "has a rat problem." Mr Upton told The Advertiser: "You could call me the pied pipe...