The Latest Breaking News from Sandwell Council

Human remains found in skip at UK cemetery as forensics work at scene

Police sealed off a section of the Alexandra Road site in Tipton, which is run by Sandwell Council, on Saturday, August 27 with forensics working at the site over the Bank Holiday weekend

Daily Mirror · Aug 30, 2022

Mum suffers 'chipped teeth after biting down on metal bolt in kebab takeaway'

'I have been on antibiotics for two weeks, I broke down in the dentist's room. It is not the nicest, it really isn't'

Wales Online · Aug 15, 2022

Mum left with 'chipped teeth for life' after biting into metal bolt in kebab takeaway

The bolt had fallen off the kebab cutting machine and ended up in the woman's meal - the chip shop responsible said it was "a mistake" and that the German manufacturers of the machine had been informed

Daily Mirror · Aug 13, 2022

Couple desperate to leave 'dirty' council flat block that 'stinks of urine and cannabis'

Louise Turner, 35, states that people also 'defecate on the floor' of the block, making it 'seem like a zoo'.

Daily Record · May 28, 2022

Homeowner forced to use wheelie bins to save parking space on 'nightmare' road

Helen Barrell, 43, from Smethwick, West Midlands, has used her wheelie bins to reserve parking outside her house as the road is so congested, in part due to a nearby primary school

Daily Mirror · May 15, 2022

Gran 'hasn't had hot meal for seven weeks due to fly infestation in flat'

Joy McClenaghan, 64, claims that her flat became riddled with 'hundreds of flies' after a sewer pipe broke in her kitchen on March 5.

Daily Record · May 14, 2022

Gran claims she hasn't had hot meal for seven weeks due to fly infestation in flat

Joy McClenaghan has been having problems with the fruit flies at her apartment in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, since a sewer pipe broke in her kitchen at the beginning of March

Daily Mirror · May 14, 2022

Man's four-year battle with slug infestation at Sandwell Council flat

Paul Blanche said he was at the end of his tether

Wales Online · Mar 16, 2022