Historic site for a new community

A young woman born at the former Wordsley Hospital in Stourbridge, is literally returning to her roots after buying a new home on the development that's replaced it.

What's more, it's been built by her father, managing director of Taylor Wimpey West Midlands, who was also born there. The developer is transforming the historic hospital site into a contemporary new community.

Sian Symons, 22, has bought her first home at Lawnswood Ride off Stream Road after graduating from Cardiff University.

She recently returned to the Black Country to take up teacher training (ultimately for a position at Sandwell Academy) and could think of no better place to call home, than the place where it all began.