
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)…

Making women’s football a level playing field
A new project is aiming to break the last taboos in women’s football from periods to pregnancy – and Staffordshire University is calling on women’s football clubs across the UK to help identify best practices which can be shared across…

Hanley Town Hall lighting up purple in celebration of Census 2021
Hanley Town Hall will join more than a hundred buildings and landmarks across England and Wales by lighting up purple to celebrate the upcoming census and its importance to communities.
The event is being organised by The Office for National…

Returning services to support residents as lockdown restrictions ease
Various public services and country parks across Staffordshire are re-opening as part of a "mapping" out return by Staffordshire County Council.
Libraries, household waste recycling centres and country parks are among those looking to restore…

Project to upgrade County’s street lights
A project to update thousands of Staffordshire street lights that will use less energy and save money is underway.
Staffordshire County Council is replacing 47,000 conventional bulbs with LED lighting after taking out an interest-free loan…

New Urban Quarter plans for Stoke-on-Trent
An exciting new urban quarter is to be developed at the Swift House site - near to Stoke-on-Trent's railway station.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is working with award-winning social impact developer Capital & Centric – the stars of…

Public consultation to shape masterplan
A public consultation exercise has begun, the results of which will drive major improvements in housing, highways and sports provision for residents in Knutton.
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is asking residents, businesses and partner…

New chair for Stoke-on-Trent Health and Wellbeing Board
Councillor Abi Brown, leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, has been appointed as the new chair for the Stoke-on-Trent Health and Wellbeing Board.
The role is to help to ensure health services provided by a range of organisations are tailored…

Further £50,000 of funding for Stoke-on-Trent Voluntary and community groups
Voluntary and community groups (VCS) across the city are to benefit from a further £50,000 of funding to help them provide crucial services to residents through the coronavirus pandemic.
The initiative follows a previous successful grant…

Further support grant available for Stoke-on-Trent based businesses
Stoke-on-Trent businesses are set to receive a further grant to help them through the coronavirus pandemic, under phase two of the ‘Additional Restrictions Grant’.
This comes as phase one of the fund saw a total of £266,488 allocated…

Mental Health Helpline 24/7
A mental health helpline set up in response to the second national lockdown caused by the COVID 19 pandemic has received more than 11,000 calls since it first began operating at the beginning of November 2020.
During December 2020 helpline…
