
BRIERLEY Hill councillor Rachel Harris has been selected by the Labour Party to fight for the Dudley South seat in the next election.
The 52-year-old, who has been a Dudley borough councillor for 15 years, has been chosen to replace high-profile Labour MP Ian Pearson – who has decided not to stand in the next General Election. Continue Reading »
Neighbours News is a non-profit voluntary organisation that publishes several community newsletters. These go out to homes within the Dudley Borough, most of which are in disadvantaged areas, who do not get delivered a free local newspaper.
We are looking for any potential funders to help fund the production of a quarterly or bi-monthly newsletter for the Brierley Hill area.
Alternatively, if each group or organisation were to pay for their own article, this would be another way of covering printing/delivery costs.
Our prices are as follows:
whole page £100
Half page £50
Business card £20
We also offer advertising at reasonable rates to local businesses.
For further details contact: 07905 69 72 69 or email: neighboursnews@yahoo.co.uk
website: http://neighboursnews39.webs.com/
We welcome any comments, suggestions, ideas, etc.
Anyone interested in preserving and promoting the heritage of Brierley Hill Town Centre is welcome to attend the launch of the new Civic Society for the town on Monday, 15th February, 2010 at St Michaels Brierley Hill. The event starts at 5.30pm.
As well as agreeing a constitution for the Society, the meeting will elect officers and will hear speakers from Dudley Archives Service, the National Youth Theatre and the Ponies 2010 project.
Steering group meetings have set a target end time of 7.30 for meetings and it is hoped that we everyone will find the meeting interesting and worthwhile.
Tuesday saw local residents being given their chance to have a say on parking issues in Brierley Hill town centre when the Community Forum’s open meeting met at Bank Street Methodist Church. Those attending the meeting heard that the introduction of car park charging at Merry Hill was, for legal reasons, some time off. But there are exisiting parking problems in the town which needed to be tackled. Continue Reading »
