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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published the latest set of results from the 2011 including key information about the people who live in Walsall.

Valerie has written to Mr Richard Kirby, Chief Executive of the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, which is responsible for Walsall Manor Hospital, to ask him to outline the steps he will be taking after the Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2012 highlighted that the Manor Hospital was one of 12 in England to have had more deaths than expected on two out of four mortality measures used.

On Friday 30 November Valerie hosted students from the Second Chance School in Walsall around the Houses of Parliament.

Valerie raised the issue of the Zebra Crossing on Darlaston Road, near the junction with Hough Road, in the House of Commons for the second time after Walsall MBC refused to upgrade the existing Zebra Crossing to a Signal Controlled design.

Valerie said: “I am delighted that the return of Sunday openings has boosted the New Art Gallery’s visitor numbers by 1,400 in a month and that the Gallery expects this figure to reach 20,000 in a year.”