Curries and pizzas may be staple takeaway dishes – but you can now get roast dinners with all the trimmings delivered to your door thanks to a new culinary venture in the Black Country. Ring4Roast has been set up by friends Rachael Smith and Sarah Cummons in their bid to save people the mess and [...]
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Young fans flock to meet TV’s Mr Tumble
CBEEBIES TV presenter Justin Fletcher – aka Mr Tumble – brought smiles to young shoppers when he stopped off at Merry Hill yesterday (Wednesday March 7).
Circus rolls up at Merry Hill
ZIPPO’S Circus has rolled up at Merry Hill for the first-time ever and shows in the Big Top kick off today (Thursday March 8).
Survey: shoppers like Brierley Hill but there’s work to be done
A survey of shoppers and residents in Brierley Hill has revealed that there is a great affection for the town, but people feel that there is still work to be done to make improvements. Addressing a meeting of Brierley Hill Town Centre Partnership, on Tuesday 24th May, Shona Gilsenan, a volunteer with the Artspace and [...]
Fashionistas flock to Merry Hill’s celeb-inspired catwalk shows
Fashionistas flock to Merry Hill’s celeb-inspired catwalk shows Hundreds of shoppers gathered to watch celebrity inspired models take to the catwalk in a feast of fashion shows at Merry Hill this past weekend. The Faces of Fashion shows were part of a two-day style extravaganza held at the shopping mall on Saturday March 26 and Sunday [...]
Topping out ceremony held at new town Campus
THE sun shone on Stourbridge College’s skyline-changing new art and design campus in Brierley Hill as dignitaries gathered for the official ‘topping out’ ceremony. College principal Lynette Cutting put the last piece of concrete in place at the event on Friday (March 25) marking the completion of the structure of the £12m building in Venture [...]
Express and Star: Tram-train line work could launch in 2014 « Express & Star
A £100million project to launch a tram-train line taking commuters across the Black Country will be in place by 2014 if plans unveiled in detail today are approved. The move is expected to create hundreds of jobs. Hybrid tram-trains, capable of travelling along both light and heavy rail tracks, would run along a defunct freight [...]
Planning inspector’s report on Brierley Hill published
The report of the planning inspector, Vincent Maher, has been published and is overwhelmingly supportive of the Brierley Hill Area Action Plan, but deletes references to ‘strategic wildlife corridors’ to replace them with ‘wildlife corridors’ in order to make the policy easier to understand and adds in a paragraph that developers must take account of the [...]
Mill Street ‘No Entry’ signs taken down
Following a review of the one way system along Mill Street from Venture Way to the town centre, the ‘no entry’ signs are being removed. Motorists were confused that they were allowed into the first few metres of Mill Street from this junction, but then had to turn into the car park when the road [...]
Car Parking update: Bell Street and High Street
The February meeting of the Brierley Hill Town Centre Partnership received an update on parking issues in the town centre. Concern had been expressed that parking on both sides of Bell Street South was making the road difficult to navigate. Engineers from the council pointed out that parking limits had been planned for the street [...]
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