Media Releases

Dudley Council is reminding businesses that employ school-age teenagers that work permits are needed to comply with employment laws.

Dudley and Halesowen leisure centres will re-open for gym sessions and lane swimming on Monday (Apr 12) as part of the easing of lockdown restrictions.

Free parking will remain on council-owned car parks in borough town centres to help boost footfall for traders preparing to re-open their businesses next week.

The Red House Glass Cone is getting a spruce up ahead of re-opening to visitors on Monday. (April 12)

Dudley Council will join a national pilot project to help track down positive cases of coronavirus quicker and break chains of transmission.

Dudley Council is working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to check and ensure borough businesses have Covid-secure measures in place to help tackle coronavirus.

Himley Hall has confirmed the return of the ever-popular Antiques and Collector’s fair on Sunday 18 April.

Bike stands are being installed in and around Stourbridge town centre ahead of a new cycle hire scheme being introduced in the borough later this month.

A builder, whose workmanship was so poor that an extension he constructed at a Stourbridge property had to be demolished and rebuilt, has been prosecuted in a case brought by Dudley Council’s Trading Standards.

People are invited to pay their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh, who sadly passed away on Friday, by signing the Royal online book of condolence.

The previous owner of a retail butcher in Lye has pleaded guilty to eight food hygiene offences, following a food inspection from Dudley Council.

Dudley’s outside tourist attractions are set to throw open their doors to visitors on 12 April, as they follow the government’s roadmap for the reopening of the country.