COLLEGE VENTURE TAKES OFF

Stourbridge College has proved that it’s cutting edge when it comes to creative industries and its designs on a new campus are on track for success with work about to begin on the Venture Way site.  The £12m investment in a new Centre in the heart of Brierley Hill is all set to contribute to • Read More »


Everybody Looks Famous confirmed for Festival of Light

One of the acts confirmed to appear at this year’s Festival of Water and Light celebration in Brierley Hill is Everybody Looks Famous.  Neighbours News saw them as the opening act at the Midlands Music Festival in Tamworth this past summer, and they are definitely one to watch out for!! You can check out their MySpace site at: • Read More »


National Youth Theatre in Brierley Hill – September Newsletter

News of the brilliant Ghost Office production in Brierley Hill, details of the open access Saturday workshops for aspiring thespians, Playing Up NYT courses, working with schools, Shakespeare…phew…read all about it in September’s newsletter from the National Youth Theatre in Brierley Hill. National Youth Theatre in Brierley Hill Newsletter – September 2010



Brierley Hill Treasure Trail Weekend

It blazed, it rained, it blew a gale… but still teams of treasure hunters from Brierley Hill and across Dudley Borough raced around historic Brierley Hill, along the Pony Trail route to search for clues and work out where the treasure is hidden. Winners of this event on 28 and 29 August to be announced • Read More »



Designing the new Brierley Hill: Powerpoint presentation

On 2nd September Brierley Hill Town Centre Partnership received a presentation on how the drawing up of new guidelines for Brierley Hill. View the presentation below. If you want to take part in the consultation they you can do so by going to the website: http://www.dudley.gov.uk/environment–planning/planning/local-development-framework/bhill-urb-des Power Point Presentation – 021092010



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 »