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Black Country Bugle
A crusty cat cancer cure
TUMOUR ON NOSE CAN BE REMOVED WITH SURGERY
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April 30, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Mothballed for more than fifty years - but sports car will ride again
Rare Midlands-made two seater restored
2 min |
April 30, 2025
Black Country Bugle
The dragon who escaped from the zoo
A lot of things have changed at Dudley Zoo over the last forty years or so - it’s no longer considered appropriate to keep many of the animals we remember seeing there in our youth in zoos anywhere.
1 min |
April 30, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Pride of Britain Fund dishes out money to West Midlands charity
Group will receive £2,500
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April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Where's William? On the trail of the Tipton Slasher ...
Keeping the name of the boxing legend alive
1 min |
April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
The Jensen – a Black Country sports car that captivated the rich and famous
BETWEEN 1888 and 2011 thirteen mass production motor car manufacturers traded in the Black Country for an average of 18 years each, with the longest being 36 years and the least being just two.
4 min |
April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Dark days of the Black Country Blitz
Dozens were killed in one awful night in November 1940 when the Luftwaffe struck
2 min |
April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Small is beautiful at the Severn Valley Railway
DURING the weekend of 3 and 4 May, there'll be a ‘takeover’ of all things small at the Severn Valley Railway, when The Engine House at Highley hosts around 25 model railway displays.
1 min |
April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Drooling dog on high alert
My 14-year-old female dog is acting very strangely. She is permanently alert, frightened, shaking and drooling, except when she is in her safe haven cage. Any advice would be helpful.
1 min |
April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
If you fancy a quiet night in
'AH'M just poppin' dahn the offie ... not something you hear very often these days with supermarkets rammed to the roof with beer and wine, but in decades gone by the off licence, or outdoor, was a much-frequented business on an evening espe-
1 min |
April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Dunstall Park to Brierley Hill - the centenary of an almost forgotten railway line
FOLLOWING David Cooper's article in the Bugle of 2nd April, 'the Great Western locos named after grand West Midlands residences', my friend and neighbour Ken Hopley, a real steam railway enthusiast, noted that David wrote 'around 1925, services for both passengers and goods were running between Oxley Junction and Brettell Lane' (Brierley Hill).
3 min |
April 23, 2025
Black Country Bugle
Watch kids BLOOM outdoors
WORKING ON A PATCH OF THEIR OWN HELPS CHILDREN GROW INTO GARDENERS
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