Media Releases

This festive season will be different from any other we’ve experienced before and staying safe should be top of the Christmas list.

From Wednesday (Dec 16) selected pharmacies across the borough will be offering pre-booked COVID-19 tests for people with no symptoms.

Dudley borough residents are being reminded that the Household Waste Recycling Centre is accepting waste and recycling over the Christmas period.

Witnesses are urged to come forward after vandals broke into public toilets in a Stourbridge park and caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage.

Kind-hearted councillors and council staff have clubbed together to buy nearly 500 presents for care leavers in the borough in a bid to give them a Christmas to remember.

A new team has started work this week advising businesses on how to stay Covid-safe.

With Christmas fast approaching health leaders are reminding residents to celebrate safely and act responsibly to keep themselves, their loved ones and those around them safe.

Dudley Council is expanding its adult social care service with the return of mental health social care to the authority in the New Year to care and support people with mental health problems in the borough.

The Mayor of Dudley is backing this year’s Operation Santa appeal - and is calling for people to donate gifts and toys to families in need this Christmas.

Fourteen green sites in the borough will be given extra protection from developers if councillors give the proposals the green light.

New Police Community Support Officers will be pounding the streets across the borough next year – after Dudley Council bosses agreed to spend £750,000 over three years to fund the posts.

Proposals to change the way in which funds from developers are allocated could unlock a funding pot of more than £130,000 for community projects across the borough.