North Walsall Area Partnership is offering a live web chat at this evening’s Area Community Meeting so that residents who are unable to attend in person can still ask questions via a live web chat. The communities of Birchills, Leamore, Blakenall Heath, and Bloxwich are invited to attend the Question Time event where they can … Continue reading
A Bloxwich youth was attacked by three masked robbers as he walked along a canal towpath earlier this month. The 17-year-old was confronted and threatened by the men near to Hildicks Bridge off Goscote Lane between 8pm and 8.30pm on Monday 7 January. They demanded he hand over his mobile phone, which he did, and … Continue reading
A cash gift of £500 from Walsall Police is set to be a “reel” boost for disabled anglers and nature lovers at Goscote Greenacres.
Call me a hairy old cynic if you like (and all of those terms may well be true), but the imminent prospect of giving yet another distant and probably rather deaf politician a leg-up onto the Gravy Train does not exactly fill me with glee – however this is the opportunity which has been gifted … Continue reading
Officers from the Blakenall neighbourhood policing team have been granted a dispersal order to help tackle anti-social behaviour in and around the area of Blakenall Heath and Leamore indicated on the map shown above. The order gives officers the power to move groups of two or more people suspected of causing anti-social behaviour from within the strictly defined … Continue reading
The mystery of the terrible vandalism done to trees in the Bloxwich Promenade Gardens off High Street has been solved, thanks to information received from public-spirited local people via Cllr Kath Philips, Cllr Julie Fitzpatrick, The Bloxwich Telegraph and others, and the perpetrator has been promptly identified and located by Bloxwich police. The fear of … Continue reading
Police are hunting a man who failed to appear before the courts for crimes committed in the Black Country. Alex McEvoy, 26, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at Walsall Magistrates Court last month to a theft which took place at an address on Mill Lane in Wednesfield. Back in October last year, McEvoy stole … Continue reading
A large-scale policing operation is underway in Walsall town centre today (Saturday 29 September).
West Midlands Police will be keeping a close eye on planned protest due to take place in Walsall town centre tomorrow, Saturday 29 September 2012.
Staff of Walsall Police Station have been busy organising a collection service for items for sending to UK armed forces personnel at war, since a colleague who has a son currently based at Camp Bastian, Afganistan realised that our ‘boys and girls’ currently serving out there would benefit from a few home comforts as they are currently … Continue reading