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Pixabay DEDICATED Dudley bereavement services staff went over and above, often working 12-hour days, to ensure cremations could take place promptly as the Covid pandemic took its toll on the borough. Most families would expect cremations to take place on the same day as the funeral service but keeping up with the demand at the height of the coronavirus crisis proved "very challenging" - one of Dudley's senior councillors has admitted - especially as one of the borough's two crematoria was closed for four months last year for an upgrade. Dudley Council’s hardworking bereavement service...

BRIERLEY HILL is now filled with flowers, thanks to local students as part of Brierley Hill in Bloom.

The Dudley VLR test track DUDLEY'S Very Light Rail project has now officially opened a test track facility for rail vehicle and infrastructure testing. The new test track runs from the foot of Castle Hill to Cinder Bank Island and is part of a drive to make Dudley an international centre for rail innovation and. It will soon be home to the Coventry VLR prototype vehicle, which will undergo extensive testing this year. The track will also be open to other clients. In August last year the West Midlands Combined Authority supported a £13million bid to bridge the remaining funding requir...

CONCERNED councillors are calling for an end to repeated gas works causing traffic chaos on a busy Halesowen road.

NETTING over a hedgerow in Halesowen is causing anger over birds getting trapped and even killed - with people also upset over "shameful"…