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Customers at the English Rose tearoom in Halesowen PUBS, restaurants and cafes across Halesowen town opened their doors to welcome back customers indoors today (Monday May 17) as part of the roadmap out of lockdown. Staff and customers were relieved to get back to normality after months of closure - but many eateries reported a quiet day with the weather and fears over the new Indian coronavirus variant possible factors putting people off. Among those throwing open their doors were Jimmy Macks restaurant, The Grill, the Olde Queens Head, The William Shenstone Wetherspoons pub, Think Fr...

L to r: Tracy Nicholls, Dave Dancer, Vicky Rogers and Eve O'Connor TRADERS in Halesowen have been given see-through face masks to help communication during deaf awareness week by the town's BID team. The team, now based in the new Hobbs building, secured funding to provide the face masks from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund. The masks allow people who are hard of hearing or deaf to lip-read and understand facial expressions more clearly whilst communicating with businesses across the town. Whilst the roll-out of the masks is ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- It's been a year of change for a lot of ArkLaTex businesses. But not always because of the coronavirus, and not always in a bad way. "When they couldn't do anything else, people would come out to the golf course," said Steve Skrivanos, Southern Trace Country Club president. In fact, some of Shreveport's most popular country clubs call 2020 a silver lining of the year-long pandemic. "We've been extremely fortunate," said Ricky Rogers, COO and general manager of East Ridge Country Club. "This past year has been one of our best years ever." A pin flag flutters in the breeze at...

THE DESCENDANTS of shopkeeper James Hobbs gave the restored former hardware shop their seal of approval at its official opening. The former Hobbs hardware store unit at 27, Great Cornbow, has been restored to its former glory by developer Ruskin Properties and is now the official office for the Halesowen BID team. James Hobbs' granddaughters, twins Dorothy and Mary, were invited by the BID team Vicky Rogers and Ellie Hunt to join them for tea and cake and to assess the work that has been carried out on the building. The site remains close to their hearts as Halesowen residents and f...

THE PATRIOTIC spirit of St George's Day came to Halesowen town centre with traders, shoppers and even workmen celebrating England's patron saint. Ruskin workers completing building work on the old council building got involved in the fun by showing off their dance moves in a TikTok video. Staff from HSBC handed out flags in Somer's Square and Halesowen BID manager Vicky Rogers distributed red and white cup cakes to shoppers as they enjoyed the sun on Friday (April 23). BID manager Vicky Rogers hands out cup cakes to shoppers Age UK on Queensway dressed its window to celebrate the ...