PANTOMIME performers have been left "devastated" following a decision by Kidderminster's Rose Theatre to dump their shows after six years of sell-out productions.
Limelight - which stages shows featuring Wyre Forest actors and dancers - has been told by the Nonentities amateur dramatic group, which runs the theatre, it is no longer welcome.
After months of trying to negotiate dates for a panto in 2017, Nonentities chairman Stephen Downing sent a letter to Limelight chairman Marsha White saying "the relationship between our two companies has broken down completely” meaning they could no longer work together.
THERE has been another bomb scare in Redditch town centre.
The scare comes less than week after another suspicious package was discovered at a factory and Military logistics teams had to be called out.
A large part of the town centre was cordoned off earlier today after a suspicious package was found in the doorway of Threadneedle House in Alcester Street.
STAFF at the YMCA showroom in Bromsgrove got the shock of their lives after a car was driven straight through the front display window and into the store.
The incident occurred just after 11am on Thursday, December 10 in the Bromsgrove Retail Park on Birmingham Road.
A spokesman for the West Midlands Ambulance Service said a paramedic went out to the scene to check over the driver of the car, a woman in her 60s, but luckily she was unharmed.
THE boss of a pub kitchen in Amblecote has been slapped with a court bill of nearly £3,000 after a string of hygiene problems were discovered.
Stephen Hull, who ran the franchised pub kitchen at the Robin Hood Inn in Collis Street, admitted six offences under the food hygiene regulations at Dudley Magistrates Court last Thursday (December 3).
Dudley Council’s environmental health officers inspected the kitchen in June 2014 and gave it a hygiene rating of just one out of five.
Find out what was wrong at the kitchen here.
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a pensioner was seriously injured after being hit by a lorry in Brierley Hill.
The 70-year-old man was taken to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital with serious head and chest injuries after the collision in Hurst Lane, near to Merry Hill shopping centre, yesterday morning (Wednesday).
His condition is described as stable.
DISTRAUGHT animal lovers have branded Old Hill the "purr-muda triangle" because so many cats are going missing.
Cats have been reportedly poisoned with anti-freeze liquid, kidnapped and killed and owners have been warned to be vigilant.
One heartbroken owner is so desperate to get her Bengal cross back she set up a Bring Back Roo Facebook page only to be inundated with similar stories.
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