A 78 year old great-grandmother from Ashmore Park was one of thousands caught up in the recent travel chaos caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland, but all ended well for Betty Potts when she was ‘rescued’ by a luxury cruise ship and given the trip of a lifetime courtesy of her travel operator!
Dream ending [...]
As of Easter Sunday (4th April) Wolverhampton bus station will be closed for 15 months whilst it is completely redeveloped into a ‘state-of-the-art passenger facility’.
This means that all city centre buses will be leaving from temporary stops whilst the station is redeveloped.
Does your child’s school have a problem with parking? Do parents insist on parking dangerously close to the school entrance, despite double yellow lines, signage and pleas from the school? Perhaps you’re a resident who is sick of your drive being blocked by cars at school time?
Or maybe you’re a parent who thinks that schools [...]
Wednesfield resident and former Mayor of Wolverhampton Phil Bateman finally got what was coming to him this week when National Express staff unveiled a 22ft Happy Birthday advert on a bus.
The advert included the free bus pass which Phil, who has worked in the public transport sector for the past 20 years will be entitled [...]
As reported in the Express and Star today, a new bus route is set to begin running next week that links two of the regions main hospitals.
The 549 bus service will take passengers between Walsall Manor Hospital and New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.
Following on from our Parking Crackdown story in November, it now looks certain that double yellow lines will be painted outside New Cross Hospital in order to ease congestion caused by hospital visitors parking in the road.
The lines are set to be painted opposite the main entrance to the hospital on Wolverhampton Road and stretch [...]
Blogger ‘Captain Ahab’ has written an in depth post about Bentley Canal which passes through Wednesfield.
The blog post not only contains a detailed history of the Canal and it’s origins, but also includes ‘then and now’ photos of the Canal from 1992 before much of the re-development work in the area began.
One such photo shows [...]
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