New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to two of Sandwell’s establishments, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows.

ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so ...

Halifax announced it would be closing its Bearwood branch earlier this year with its doors closing for good in March 2026.

Sixty years to the week since Malcolm X came to Smethwick, a permanent reminder still remains in the form of a blue plaque in ...

Davenports, which is based in Smethwick, has pledged to help out families during the half term week by running a Kids Eat ...

Three trailers will be placed at the ‘super’ hospital in Smethwick, which finally opened last October after years of delays ... Teenager arrested after 'making threats with machete' Read more: Empty ...

And he's found some of his favourites here in Ireland. Leeds man Jack Anderton has roamed from the island of Madeira all the way to Ukraine sampling pints at hundreds of pubs, assessing bars on ...

The achievement is a significant one for the pub, which opened at the tail end of 2023, going on to quickly pick up a string of rave reviews, including from the Standard. The pub, which is co ...

Confused locals woke on Australia Day to find popular Mandurah pub Cobblers Falcon flying the flag of the Chinese Communist Party, PerthNow reported. Cobblers is one of the Hong Kong-owned ...

A 51-year-old man has been convicted of murder after a row in the village pub ended in a violent assault in the victim’s own garden. A jury decided that Kevin Horswill carried out the fatal ...

THE first pub is thought to have opened in the UK around 2,000 years ago - and it's safe to say they have become an important part of culture since. Today, there are over 30,000 boozers across ...

“As a consequence we are closing the pub until further notice for safety reasons and to allow more extensive investigations to be carried out.” The classic watering hole has been closed ever ...