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THESE days, at least as far as the national teams are concerned, England’s women are flying higher than the men. But not so long ago, female footballers were struggling at times even to get a game. The girls on our front page, trying their best...
RICHARD Thomas & Baldwin’s factory was one of the biggest employers in the Brockmoor area in the middle years of the 20th century, and like all big works in those days, it brought its workforce together via the social side of life, with sports...
ON Tuesday 15 September 1885, a former gamekeeper named John Shakespeare, of Norton Canes near Cannock, was shot at the Five Ways Inn, Heath Hayes, by a travelling hawker of no fixed residence, named Francis Donnelly, aged 42. He survived...
BESTSELLING authors from a wide range of genres will be talking to audiences about their work during this year’s Dudley Writers’ Festival. Taking place throughout June in Dudley’s libraries, the 2026 line-up includes one of the most borrowed...
THIS May half term the RAF Museum Midlands, at Cosford, is offering a guaranteed great family day out. The joint top-rated museum in the UK, as voted by Which? members, is celebrating Heroes of the Air with an interactive Hero Trail,...
