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Fans launch campaign to get Wagner to number one

The campaign is on to get Dudley’s X Factor star Wagner to win the TV talent show and to make it to the top of the charts this Christmas. Former borough PE teacher Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho has survived three live shows on the top ITV competition – and now an army of fans, supporters and anti-X • Read More »


Hot date for top chef at Merry Hill eaterie

As a reminder TOP TV chef Gino D’Acampo will be turning up the heat at Merry Hill at a bash to mark the first birthday of Eat Central tomorrow (22 Oct). The I’m a Celebrity winner will be performing a series of live cookery demonstrations as part of a packed programme of activities marking the • Read More »


X FACTOR JUDGE HITS DUDLEY

X Factor judge Louis Walsh fuels rumours X Factor judge Louis Walsh has caused a stir by filming in Dudley – fuelling rumours that a reject from the Black Country will be given a second shot at stardom. The Irishman was spotted out and about in Pensnett and having his make-up done at Dudley’s Village • Read More »


Hot date for top chef at Merry Hill eaterie

TOP TV chef Gino D’Acampo will be turning up the heat at Merry Hill at a bash to mark the first birthday of Eat Central. The I’m a Celebrity winner will be performing a series of live cookery demonstrations on Friday October 22 as part of a packed programme of activities marking the first anniversary • Read More »



X factor Olly to kick off Christmas

THE festive season will be kicked off in style at Merry Hill this year, as X Factor heartthrob Olly Murs will flick the switch for the Christmas lights. The talent show’s runner up will be topping the bill at the lights switch-on event on November 12 and will be performing his debut single Please Don’t • Read More »



Birmingham Post 1/10/1858 – Enquiry into Round Oak Rail disaster

Birmingham Daily Post FRIDAY, 1st., OCTOBER, 1858 THE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE NEAR DUDLEY The enquiry, before T. M. Phillips, Esq., coroner, into the circumstances attendant upon the late unfortunate accident on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway resumed yesterday, at the Bell Hotel, Brierley Hill. William Fenton, Esq. chairman of the Company, and J. S. Pakington, • Read More »


N-Dubz perform to screaming crowds

EAR piercing screams heralded the arrival of chart toppers N-Dubz as they performed an exclusive after hours gig at Merry Hill last night. The hip hop trio – Dino ‘Dappy’ Contostavlos, Tula ‘Tulisa’ Contostavlos and Richard ‘Fazer’ Rawson – performed hits from their two hit albums during a private one hour gig in Fountain Square • Read More »