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Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has secured £150,000 of government funding to take forward plans to open a new railway station at Aldridge.
The funding, from the Department for Transport’s Restoring Our Railway programme, will help cover the cost of developing a business case, including the case for electrification of the line to deliver a brand new rail service between Walsall and Aldridge.
A rekindling exhibition which documents the journey of migrants to the UK will be launched at the University of Wolverhampton.
The University partnered with the Pothohar Association UK on the joint project, ‘Rekindling Pothohar’ last year after they were awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to record the history of their journey from Pothohar, following the partition of India in 1947.
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) have announced its intention to stage strike action across several train companies, including West Midlands Railway, on the following dates:
This will have a considerable impact on the number of trains we are able to run. We will be running a very limited service on these dates between 7.30am and 6.30pm only. Due to the knock-on impact of the strike, a very limited service will be running on Wednesday 22 June and Friday 24 June.
We are doing everything we can to keep routes with limited services running but they may be further impacted by short notice cancellations or alterations.
What services are affected?
The following routes will have a limited service in operation between 7.30am and 6.30pm on strike days:
No trains will run on any other WMR route between Tuesday 21 June and Saturday 25 June, including all routes via Birmingham Snow Hill, Birmingham-Shrewsbury, Birmingham-Worcester-Hereford and Nuneaton-Leamington Spa.
No rail replacement transport will be available. Full information and timetables are available online.
Birmingham community turn bus stops into stained-glass art galleries Seven new bus stops lining Birmingham’s busy Soho Road have been converted into art galleries to celebrate the area’s diverse communities and history.
The nomination deadline for this year’s Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year Awards has been extended until Sunday 31 July.
The awards, led by the city’s Rotary Clubs and supported by the City of Wolverhampton Council, recognise exceptional young citizens aged 13 to 25 who have gone above and beyond to help others.
During the heyday of the British empire, thousands of women from India and other parts of Asia were brought to London to look after young children - but many of these nannies were later abandoned and left to fend for themselves.
The leader of City of Wolverhampton Council has described a group of volunteers who run a community shop offering cut-price food to families in need as “true champions” as he officially opened the facility.
Councillor Ian Brookfield saw first-hand how people are able to make huge savings on their groceries and other household essentials at the Big Venture Community Shop, based in Chesterton Road, The Scotlands, during his recent visit.
A significantly reduced train service will be running across the West Midlands during nationwide strikes next week, a rail operator has said. More than 40,000 RMT union members, from Network Rail and 13 train firms, plan to walk out in the "biggest rail strike in modern history".
West Midlands Railway (WMR), Avanti West Coast and Transport for Wales will all be hit on 21, 23 and 25 June.
A new initiative that is already helping more than 1000 people access affordable food in Wolverhampton officially opened yesterday
Wolverhampton Council Leader Ian Brookfield cut the ribbon at Big Venture’s Community Shop and encouraged people from across the city to take advantage of what is proving to be an ‘essential local service’.
Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, in the UK, is set to be as hot as Jamaica by the end of this week as a mini-heatwave is set to arrive in the UK.
Forecasters are predicting that Friday, June 17 could be the hottest day of the year, trumping the record of 27.5 degrees in May. Bromsgrove is set to bask in 29-degree heat according to the Met Office with a peak around 4 pm – that's the same temperature as tropical holiday destination Jamaica.
A last-minute legal battle was under way over the UK government's first flight transporting asylum seekers to Rwanda.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said that it has blocked the removal of one of seven passengers saying he could come to serious harm.
New research from Direct Line Cycling Insurance reveals that commuters are being increasingly discouraged from cycling into work by a number of factors, and those who do ride in face a dilemma on where to store their bike. While an estimated £1 billion worth of bikes are used to commute every day across the UK, the research suggests that as many as 1.5 million cyclists are deterred by the lack of bike storage facilities at their workplace.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Safe and Legal Migration), Kevin Foster MP, this week visited West Midlands based Nehemiah Housing Association and met with a delegation from the RAFFA International Development Agency including Chief Executive Angela Clarke and RAFFA Vice Chair and Nehemiah CEO Llewellyn Graham to discuss the work RAFFA has been doing to raise awareness of the Windrush Compensation Scheme across the West Midlands.
The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay will visit all ten of the city’s Parliamentary constituencies during the final two days of its 294-day journey. Birmingham 2022 is hosting the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay – a journey which brings together and celebrates communities across the Commonwealth during the build up to the Games.
London animal welfare charity, Mayhew, has seen its highest ever weekly intake of abandoned kittens in May, having had 30 unwanted tiny felines left at their Kensal Green headquarters in one week alone from 16th to 23rd May 2022 - a 50% increase compared to the same period in 2021.
The RSPCA has published a collection of essays from global thought leaders to kick off a mission to reposition animal welfare from a niche to a more mainstream policy position. The collection; ‘What Have Animals Ever Done for Us?’ sees 19 essayists explore a diverse array of topics - including animals in religion, the economic value of the natural world, what technology can teach us about our feelings towards animals, and how animals have shaped the legal system over the last 200 years.
