• Walsall residents make stand against car vandals

  By Walsall Advertiser at 08:00 on 23/05/13

  

  ANGRY residents in Palfrey extended the long arm of the law when they cornered a man they suspected of vandalising their cars. Motorists in Bescot Crescent saw red when a man apparently walked along their street lashing out at parked cars on Sunday evening (May 19). It follows years of criminal damage to cars in the area – without a successful prosecution – and proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back. The...

• Member of hole in the wall gang jailed

  By Walsall Advertiser at 05:00 on 23/05/13

  

  A BLACK Country man who was part of a masked, sledgehammer-wielding gang who smashed their way into a Walsall bank in a raid "doomed to failure" has been jailed for 14 months. 33-year-old Michael Cook and his accomplices knocked a hole in the wall of Barclays Bank in Willenhall hoping they would then be able to gain access to a cash dispensing machine full of money. But the "clumsy, amateurish" raiders did not...

• Walsall police station plans scrapped

  By Walsall Advertiser at 05:00 on 23/05/13

  

  A £13 MILLION plan to build a new police station in Walsall town centre will not go ahead, it has been announced. The new West Midlands Police (WMP) building proposed for Hatherton Street would have replaced the current Walsall Police headquarters in Green Lane. WMP is looking at proposals to work with Walsall Council which could potentially herald a wholesale change to the way it delivers services in the area. It follows a...

• Custom officers find £1.7 million worth of tobacco hidden in tea

  By Walsall Advertiser at 05:00 on 23/05/13

  

  SMUGGLERS who attempted to disguise a £1.7-million pound haul of tobacco as tea were left with a bitter taste in their mouths when customs officers swooped last week. The officers locked down ten tonnes of tobacco in Wednesbury, which had been sneaked through the boarders from China, as part of HM Revenue and Custom's Operation Lobsterpot last Tuesday (May 14). Officers raided a self-storage site in the area and arrested...

• Air ambulance called after boy hurt in RTA

  By Walsall Advertiser at 04:20 on 23/05/13

  

  A 12-YEAR-old boy is recovering in hospital after being involved in a road accident on Chester Road in Streetly last week. The boy, thought to be a pupil at St Francis of Assisi Technology College in Walsall Wood, was in collision with a car at around 3.50pm on Thursday evening (May 16) at the traffic light junction with Bridle Lane, not far from the Tesco Express. At first it was thought the boy had suffered life-altering injuries,...

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