Christmas in the Black Country

Christmas lights switch-on

Dudley Market

With over 70 stalls, the council-run market offers affordable and friendly shopping with an ever increasing choice of products at bargain prices.

People are being urged to bag a bargain at the market from Monday – Saturday 8.30am – 4.30pm.

The market will be closed on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 December as well as Thursday 1 January. It will be open for business on Saturday 27, Monday 29, Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 December.

Rubbish collections

The council’s refuse collectors will carry out normal collections up to and including Friday 19th December and resume normal collections from Saturday 12th January.

Primary School choir

All borough residents will receive three collections during the holiday period.

If you are normally a Monday Collection:

Monday Dec 22 will be collected the previous Sat Dec 20
Monday Dec 29 will be collected the next day on Tuesday Dec 30
Monday Jan 5 will be collected the next day on Tuesday Jan 6

If you are normally a Tuesday Collection:

Tuesday 23rd Dec will be collected the day before on Monday Dec 22
Tuesday 30th Dec will be collected the next day on Wednesday Dec 31
Tuesday 6th Jan will be collected the next day on Wednesday Jan 7

If you are normally a Wednesday Collection:

Wednesday 24th Dec will be collected the day before on Tuesday Dec 23
Wednesday 31st Dec will be collected two days later on Friday Jan 2
Wednesday 7th Jan will be collected the next day on Thursday Jan 8

If you are normally a Thursday Collection:

Thursday 25th Dec will be collected the day before on Wednesday Dec 24
Thursday 1st Jan will be collected two days later on Saturday Jan 3
Thursday 8th Jan will be collected the next day on Friday Jan 9

If you are normally a Friday Collection:

Friday 26th Dec will be collected the three days later on Monday Dec 29
Friday 2nd Jan will be collected the three days later on Monday Jan 5
Friday 9th Jan will be collected the next day on Saturday Jan 10

Christmas fun

Green waste Christmas break

Borough residents are reminded that green waste collections in Dudley will take a winter break after Friday 19th December, resuming on Monday 2nd February 2009.

Calendars will be distributed to households across the borough during January with details of their collections for 2009.

Residents are reminded to make the most of the collections through the remainder of November and December before the winter break takes place due to a drop in demand.

Residents are also reminded that the civic amenity site will continue to accept green waste during the period that the collection service is suspended.

The civic amenity site will be open throughout the Christmas period but will be closed from 3pm on Christmas Eve and all day on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. The site in Birmingham Street, Stourbridge, is open 8am to 6pm on weekdays and 8am to 4.30pm on weekends.

Click the link below for more useful information on the Dudley borough this Christmas: