{"id":690415,"date":"2026-07-14T03:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690415\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:12:16","slug":"jude-bellingham-and-morgan-rogers-to-get-freedom-of-dudley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690415\/","title":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers to get freedom of Dudley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England stars Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers are to be offered the freedom of Dudley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The boyhood friends, who grew up a few miles apart, shared the pitch together in Miami on Saturday as Bellingham&#8217;s two goals sent the Three Lions through to the semi-finals of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two days before England face Argentina at Atlanta Stadium for a place in the final, Dudley Borough Council named the pair among those to receive the freedom of the borough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council leader Patrick Harley said it was the &#8220;highest honour we can bestow&#8221;, adding that it was reserved &#8220;for those whose service, achievements and dedication have made an exceptional contribution to our borough and its people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision was announced at a meeting of full council on Monday and formal presentations are expected to take place later in the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means Bellingham, from Stourbridge, and Rogers, from Halesowen, follow the likes of comedian Lenny Henry and wheelchair tennis player Jordanne Whiley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England stars Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers are to be offered the freedom of Dudley. The boyhood friends,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}