A NEW council housing development is set to be built in Smethwick as Sandwell Council teams up with ... enjoy easy access to local amenities such as public transportation links, schools, parks and ...

New York will require schools statewide to ban smartphone use during school hours, joining a national movement aimed at preventing compulsive social media use and distractions that interfere with ...

Reform on course to win most seats if election were held now, poll suggests I ate at the UK's oldest Indian restaurant — its closure would be a 'tragedy' RAF intercepted Russian jets to defend ...

This is an extract from an article submitted to Smethwick Heritage recalling by ... in making out the street fire-watching rotas. At school we were encouraged to collect salvage, buy National ...

The 1930s saw serious anti-Jewish mobilisation under Oswald Mosley and his Black Shirts; 1958 saw the Notting Hill Riots; and 1964 the use of an infamous racist slogan in Smethwick that helped the ...

Heavy plumes of smoke can bee seen in the skies over Smethwick after a fire broke out at around 1.30pm today at a former cinema complex. Shoppers were told not to travel to the Windmill Shopping ...

Schools were asked to identify active young citizens, aged between 11 and 18-years-old, who were deserving of recognition and who had gone the "extra mile". Natasha Taylor, head of Smethwick ...

Famous Wood was due to start Year 5 in September at St Matthew's Primary School in Smethwick but wanted to wear a face covering to protect his friends and family during the pandemic. His father ...

A Smethwick school has closed after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19. Holly Lodge High School is the latest Black Country school to be hit by coronavirus. It will be closed for two ...

The warning came as council officers reported on plans to claw back money embezzled from the Smethwick school over five years. The fraud was masterminded by headteacher Michelle Hollingsworth ...

Michelle Hollingsworth systematically siphoned cash from Annie Lennard Primary in Smethwick, West Midlands, by using the school’s cheques for designer clothes, oil paintings and antique furniture.