HERE’S what’s been making the news across the Black Country and North Worcestershire.

Stourbridge councillor Les Jones has been tipped as a possible contender for the Dudley North seat in the General Election after yesterday’s resignation of Afzal Amin amid accusations of plotting with the EDL to gain votes.

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Meanwhile former Dudley Council leader Anne Millward, chairman of the local Conservative association in Dudley North, has ruled herself out of the race to replace disgraced Mr Amin.

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Meanwhile – Dudley woman Rebecca Hill has been jailed for a year for making a threatening call to a victim of a vicious attack, telling him to lie about the incident.

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In Halesowen, anti-litter campaigning councillor Richard Body has launched a one-man fight against offenders trashing a country lane.

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Meanwhile - a court heard a van driver caused the death of a Kidderminster motorcyclist said to be speeding at up to 100mph along a dual carriageway in Stourport.

Peter Colquitt, aged 53, had seen the bike, ridden by 52-year-old Stuart Simpson, hurtling along the A451 Minster Road, but pulled out from a side lane in his Fiat Ducato when he misjudged the speed and distance of the motorcycle, Worcester Crown Court was told.

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A Bromsgrove teenager has been jailed for 18 months for a vicious, racially aggravated attack on a love rival who became pregnant by her boyfriend.

Former care worker Abigail Moody, of Slideslow Avenue, pretended to be the boyfriend on Facebook and then tricked her victim into going to a flat where she ambushed her, grabbed her hair, kicked and punched her and fractured her eye socket – a court heard.

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Meanwhile in Redditch, a man who had hopes of training in medicine put lives at risk when he led police on a chase through the town at speeds up to 75mph, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Christopher Teague, aged 23, of Lime Tree Crescent – formerly known as Christopher Simmonds – was jailed for nine months and banned from the roads for two years after admitting dangerous driving and refusing to take a breath test.

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