The Dudley News is a quality, free weekly newspaper serving the town of Dudley and its surrounding area. With authoritative and progressive local news coverage, the Dudley News is well respected by the local community.The Dudley News is a local free newspaper which has served the Dudley area of the West Midlands, England since February 1985. It succeeded the Dudley Herald.The newspaper is currently edited by Paul Walker with a sports section edited by Chris Flavell. It is owned by the Newsquest (Midlands, South) newspaper group.Although the newspaper was created eleven years after the creation of the modern Dudley borough, it only covers Dudley and the neighboring towns of Sedgley, Coseley, Brierley Hill and Kingswinford. People living in the Stourbridge, Wordsley, Lye, and Pedmoreareas of the borough receive the Stourbridge News, while those living in Halesowen and Rowley Regis (which is actually located in neighboring Sandwell) receive the Halesowen New