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Celebrations for Community RePaint Scheme brightening local communities

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is celebrating twenty-one years of their Community RePaint scheme, having first operated paint reuse at two recycling centres in 2001. The city council has been accepting leftover householder paint that would otherwise have gone for disposal and redistributed it to individuals, charities and community groups for free to help brighten homes and […]

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Fundraising Lunch for Staffordshire Bereavement Charity

Local businesses are joining together for a charity lunch to help to raise awareness for Stafford and District Bereavement and Loss Support Service. Personal Stylist and image consultant Allison Buckley along with Lynn Sumner from Tropic Skincare and Sonya Farrall from PR and media agency BabaBaboon will all be sharing expert tips and advice during […]

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Aaron Bell MP Visits Luxury Bathroom Site at Silverdale

Traditional bathroom manufacturer, Silverdale Bathrooms was proud to welcome Aaron Bell MP, the Member of Parliament for Newcastle-Under-Lyme, to its manufacturing facility. The visit included a factory tour during which they were able to showcase the traditional craft skills used to create its traditional sanitaryware. Silverdale Bathrooms is a specialist in high quality, handmade ceramics […]

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Exhibition honouring father of modern circus in Newcastle-under-Lyme

The circus has come to Newcastle-under-Lyme as a new exhibition paying homage to Philip Astley, the father of modern circus, opens at the Belong Heritage Gallery. Opening to great fanfare, multi-skilled performer and illusionist, Andrew Van Buren, played ringmaster, with mayor, Councillor Gillian Burnett, local schoolchildren, and Belong’s customers, joining for a masterclass in circus […]

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Stoke-on-Trent City Council celebrates Black History Month

During October, Stoke-on-Trent City Council is celebrating Black History Month by remembering the achievement and contributions of those of black heritage to the city’s culture and history. Black History Month was first observed in the UK in October 1987, with an event in London to celebrate the contributions of black people throughout history. It aims […]

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Construction kicks off at Capital&Centric’s Goods Yard

WORK to deliver an ambitious generation project in Stoke-on-Trent has officially begun. Construction is underway at Capital&Centric’s Goods Yard – a £60 million mission to transform a prime industrial site next to the west coast mainline train station into a design-led, creative neighbourhood. The social mission developers – behind vibrant communities in places like Manchester […]

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Belong paints a picture of the importance of arts in care

Residents at Belong in Newcastle-under-Lyme have been creating their own artwork as part of an initiative which celebrates the National Day of Arts in Care Homes.  For this year’s ‘Field of Flowers’ theme, the Lower Street village’s customers, their families and community visitors produced a spectacular wall art piece, featuring four thousand individual fingerprints in […]

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