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North Staffordshire Women’s Institute group – ‘Let’s Make Jam’ – are once again leading the pack with their hard work and support for the local community. Members of their subsidiary craft group ‘Jammie Hookers’ regularly support local causes, and were looking for a big and meaningful project that they could all get involved in. After […]
Not-for-profit care village operator Belong, which has a location on Lower Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, has taken the title for Best Care Provision at this year’s HealthInvestor Seniors Housing Awards. The national award is recognition of the provider’s innovative approach to care, including its pioneering village model and adoption of technology to improve outcomes for apartment tenants, as well […]
A motion to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Lidice atrocity in 2022 has been agreed at a Stoke-on-Trent City council meeting. On the 10 June 1942, Nazis entered the village of Lidice, shot 173 men, removed all the women and children and razed the village to the ground. The women were transported to Ravensbruck, some […]
Residents – and other interested parties – can help to shine the spotlight on their favourite building projects and landscape schemes in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Online nominations are being accepted for the Council’s 2021 Design Awards – a biennial event which aims to celebrate the major roles that good building design and land development play in enhancing […]
Business Boost is to hold its first ever livestreamed awards night to celebrate Newcastle-under-Lyme companies which survived and thrived during the Covid-19 lockdowns. An online awards event will be held at 7pm on Wednesday, December 1 – live from King Street Studios, Newcastle. Business Boost isn’t holding its traditional awards programme until 2022, however, the […]
Erin Gascoigne-Jones has been selected as the new Young Poet Laureate for Staffordshire. The Year 11 pupil from Sir Thomas Boughey Academy in Newcastle-under-Lyme was appointed to the role at a special poetry event organised by Staffordshire County Council’s Libraries service and WORD Stafford. Erin was joined by members of the libraries service, the Staffordshire […]
An incredible space packed full of interesting features in Kidsgrove and a delightful, wildlife- friendly area in Clayton were announced the best residential gardens in Newcastle-under-Lyme in an annual competition. Maureen Wilson and Graham Green, and Donna Thorley, became the respective winners of Judges’ Choice Awards in the hotly-contested residential category of Newcastle Borough Council’s […]
Stoke-on-Trent City Council fostering service alongside fostering services from across the country have joined together for the national release of a new short film commissioned by the largest collaboration of local councils and children’s trusts from all over England. The short film, called ‘Out There’, highlights the ways fostering can make a difference to the […]
A librarian from Staffordshire County Council’s Libraries and Arts service has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award for the second year running. Liz Gardner, Stock Services and Activities Officer, has been shortlisted for the Library/Librarian of the Year category in the Romantic Novelists’ Association 2021 Industry Awards. Liz, who has been with the library […]
A film, produced by Staffordshire University film lecturers and shot on location in and around Stoke-on-Trent, is to get its first live screening. Running Naked, is a movie about Mark and Ben, friends since meeting as teenage cancer patients. After showing at Beijing and Portland International Film festivals, the film by North of Watford Films premiered online […]
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