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The Cornbow Centre yesterday (Monday April 12). OFFICIAL figures show around 20,000 people visited Halesowen's Cornbow Shopping Centre yesterday as non-essential shops reopened. People returned to the town in their droves as non-essential shops, hospitality, hairdressers and gym and pubs reopened on Monday (April 12) Cornbow Centre manager Eve O'Connor said she was happy with the figure, which she hoped would rise as people regained confidence. She said: "On a normal Monday pre-Covid we would have had 28,000 visitors and in the same week during first lockdown in 2020 we had 9,000 visi...

HALESOWEN is back in business as non-essential shops, pubs, gyms and cafes reopened today with the town "buzzing." The town was bustling with people keen to get back to the shops and to get their haircut as well as meeting friends for a drink in a pub at last. The Cornbow Shopping Centre was busy, with shoppers out in their droves. There were queues outside charity shops, barbers and banks with James Morris MP visiting to help Halesowen BID 'unlock' the town. Pic: BID manager Vicky Rogers and Halesowen MP James Morris unlock Halesowen. Pic: Matt Reynolds Mike and Lorraine Smith,...

THERE were queues outside hairdressers today in Halesowen with people keen to get their unruly lockdown locks back under control. People were queueing outside Kyris barbers on Hagley Road from 8am this morning as shops across Halesowen reopened for business today, in line with the second stage of the government's road map out of lockdown. That means non-essential shops such as clothing, homeware, electronics and toy shops have welcomed customers back for the first time since the third nationwide lockdown started on January 6. At Elle Rhi hair salon in Hagley Street, Barbara Pierpoint ...

Halesowen's BID team are looking forward to moving to new premises this week. Manager Vicky Rogers and ambassador Ellie Hunt will move to the former Hobbs building, which has been renovated as part of Ruskin Properties town centre development. The developer is in the finishing stages of converting 24-27 Great Cornbow, a Grade II Listed building which was a former council office and 6-8 Hagley Street, Halesowen, into 25 apartments. The BID team are moving from their premises at 1, Hagley St, which had once been a fruit shop and also an estate agents. They originally moved into the pr...

Earls head Jamie Fox with BID manager Vicky Rogers GENEROUS Halesowen firms have backed a fundraiser kickstarted by the town's BID to raise £5k to provide equipment for children to learn from home. The idea for the fundraiser came after businesses witnessed first-hand families struggling to home school due to the lack of equipment. More than £2.5k has already been raised with tablets delivered to Earls High and Halesowen CofE Primary. Starkey Electrical Limited, which has recently moved to Halesowen, is one of the businesses which had witnessed families struggling. Stuart Starkey ...