
Season’s Greetings Review
An extended family combined with Christmas chaos, creates comedy gold in Season's Greetings at the New Vic theatre thanks to genius Alan Ayckbourn.
As Christmas Eve gets underway finishing touches to the decorations at Neville (Matt Addis)…

Shortlist for tourism awards announced
Thirty-seven of the county’s best tourism and hospitality businesses will go head-to-head at theprestigious Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism & Good Food Awards 2021-22.
More than 80 entries from across Staffordshire have been whittled down…

Help change a life this Christmas by fostering a child in need of a loving home
This festive period Stoke-on-Trent City Council is urging its resident to think about fostering as 973 children will be care in this Christmas.
No matter how often a person can foster - short term, weekends or emergencies only, foster carers…

FREE Cloud Skills training programme to help individuals restart their career
Staffordshire University is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver AWS re/Start, a free, full-time, skills-based development and training programme that prepares individuals for careers in the cloud and connects them to potential…

Team work for Tree Planting in the City
An initiative to plant thousands of trees across Stoke-on-Trent is well underway.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council partnered with Water Plus - which has its main office in the Riverside Park complex in Stoke-on-Trent, and is supporting the tree…

New Car Park will drive transformation for Town Centre
A brand new multi-storey car park - part of the once-in-a-generation investment plans for the development of the Ryecroft area in Newcastle-under-Lyme - is set to get the go-ahead.
This will clear the way for the demolition of the ageing…

Goods Yard Plans for Stoke-on-Trent
Capital & Centric have submitted plans to create a striking £60m urban quarter next to Stoke-on-Trent’s train station, with new images of the plans released.
The social impact developers recently consulted on plans for the Goods Yard,…

Free holiday activities and food available this Christmas
Thousands of Staffordshire school children will receive free hot meals and access to a range of activities over the Christmas holidays.
More than 20,000 children and young people who are in receipt of benefits related to free school meals,…

Recruitment and Retention Bonuses Announced for Home Care Staff
Home care workers across Stoke-on-Trent are to be offered extra support and loyalty bonuses, as part of the plans to help retain and recruit staff this winter.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the NHS are working together to address winter…

Have a road trip not a road tip: council teams clean up to twenty-three tonnes of litter from A50/A500 corridor
Stoke-on-Trent City Council and National Highways are reminding residents that the city’s roads are not a litter bin after city council teams clear the equivalent of 340 grey bin loads of rubbish each year.
City council teams carry out…

Town Centre landmark reopens following refurbishment
An iconic building in Newcastle town centre has reopened its doors to the public following a refurbishment.
Residents, shoppers and visitors are once again accessing services from a community and voluntary sector hub at the historic Guildhall…