Media Releases

Dudley’s trading standards team is advising businesses in the borough to be aware of their responsibilities when selling knives.

Dudley Council is rolling out its successful community toothbrush scheme to young people with special educational needs in the fight against child tooth decay.

Lye Library has reopened after major refurbishment.

A shop trader who sold illegal tobacco with four other men has been jailed for 34 months following a case brought by Dudley Council’s Trading Standards.

A pub director, who failed to ensure food safety and hygiene standards were correctly met at a premises where he was formally based, has been charged in court.

Changes to improve the Dudley Schools Library Service are being implemented this January.

A fraudster, who conned Dudley borough homeowners out of thousands of pounds for work he never intended to do, has been handed a lengthy sentence behind bars.

Check your drinking ahead of the festive season with a new app supplied by Dudley Council.

Dudley libraries are running storytime sessions for children aged under 5 as part of the BookTrust Storytime programme.

Published children’s authors in the wider Dudley area are being given the opportunity of starting the new year with a bursary awarded by the new GLL Literary Foundation.

Residents who are having a clear out over Christmas are being encouraged to donate to a community sharing event in the New Year.

Witches, ghosts and a Christmas singalong all feature in Dudley Library’s upcoming trio of free, midwinter events.