HERE'S your evening news round-up for the Black Country and north Worcestershire.

Drugs to treat high cholesterol, excess acidity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes were among the top ten most dished out to patients at the borough's biggest GP practice.

A data investigation by the Stourbridge News has revealed Atorvastatin, a type of statin, was the number one most dispensed drug at Stourbridge's Lion Health centre, off Lowndes Road, during August.

Lansoprazole, which is used to treat and prevent stomach and intestinal ulcers as well as damage to the oesophagus from stomach acid and other conditions involving excessive stomach acid such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, was the second and third most dispensed drug during the same month.

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Controversial plans to build a girls’ school in Stourbridge have gone back to the drawing board due to concerns over funding – but they have not been shelved completely.

Historic grammar school Old Swinford Hospital hoped to use Government funding to build a state day and boarding school for girls – a first in the country – in the town.

However, the scheme came under fire from environmental campaigners because the proposed location was green belt land on Norton Road.

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Thousands of people turned out across Dudley yesterday (Sunday) to remember fallen soldiers who gave their lives while fighting for freedom.

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A man is wanted by police for exposing himself to a woman in her 60s, the Bromsgrove Advertiser reports.

The woman was sitting in her car in a car park on School Lane in Alvechurch when she was approached by an unknown man who started to talk to her.

He is understood to have asked if he could get in her car, which the woman declined.

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Meanwhile - the chief constable of West Mercia Police has admitted there are not enough police officers to respond to every crime in the region.

West Mercia Police chief constable Anthony Bangham, speaking to councillors at a meeting of Worcestershire County Council last week, said the police did not have enough officers to respond to every report following news the number of hate crimes against disabled people had risen from two in 2015 to 24 in the year up to March 2018.

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Stourport town centre has joined the 'We Don't Buy Crime' police initiative following a spate of business break-ins, burglaries and incidents of criminal damage.

Shops around the town centre have been hit by 15 attacks in the last two weeks, prompting local police and the town council to step in in an effort to prevent further business crimes.

As part of the 'We Don't Buy Crime' scheme, funded by West Mercia Police's community fund, signage has been installed around the town centre and crime prevention advice leaflets and property marking kits have been handed out to local shops.

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