• The local news team aims to provide all the information you could wish for about the world immediately around you, and consequently, we hope, inspiring you to play a bigger role in it.

  • The local news team aims to provide all the information you could wish for about the world immediately around you, and consequently, we hope, inspiring you to play a bigger role in it.

Welcome to the Local News website

Every day we hear all about what is going on all over the world, about disasters in far flung corners of the globe, about political matters in countries we’ve never been to, and yet we hear so little about what is actually going on just beyond our doorsteps. The local news team aims to provide all the information you could wish for about the world immediately around you, and consequently, we hope, inspiring you to play a bigger role in it. Why not get in touch with our Local News team to learn more.

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Welcome to the Local News website!

Welcome to the Local News website. We are here to provide you a real and informative connection to your immediate world. From local council matters, to community interest stories, and all the local events happening around you every day, we aim to help you feel part of your local environment, and therefore hope to encourage you to play a fuller role in your local community.

So many people in contemporary society don’t even know their neighbour’s name, yet are fully aware of the political tensions in the Middle East, or of the economic situation in the United States of America. Now, we are certainly not saying that it would be better to remain ignorant of such matters; in the modern world of globalization, a sense of international community is inevitable and highly desirable. However, it should not, as is so often the case, come at the cost of local awareness. All of us are a part of our local community, whether we feel it or not, and local matters actually affect our day to day lives.  So the Local News team has one objective: to reconnect the individual with their local community, to prompt them, through the delivery of high quality local reportage, to re-engage with their immediate environment, and in the long run, to make it a better place to live.

If you are interested in Local News, feel free to contact us. If you have an idea for a local interest story, have a suggestion for the website, or for any other reason, please get in touch. We are always keen to hear from you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please Note

This website has nothing to do with the old Alcester Standard website.

 

For more information regarding the Alcester Standard please contact them directly at Webb House, Church Green East, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 8BP, on 01527 588688, or via editor@alcesterstandard.co.uk.