
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)…

Johnny Owen on air six days a week at the Hitmix
Popular local radio presenter Johnny Owen has returned to weekday radio broadcasting on community radio station The Hitmix.
Johnny has been doing a regular Sunday slot at The Hitmix for around seven months, and is now also broadcasting throughout…

Sing for our Angels and Feature in special video honouring keyworkers
VOLUNTEERS are being invited to record themselves singing Robbie Williams' biggest hit - Angels - in a special tribute to keyworkers.
Organisers of tourism group Enjoy Staffordshire, have been granted permission to use the 1997 hit track…

Local companies rally to provide protective equipment & council staff retrain to give care to vulnerable
Local companies are helping to ensure that frontline council care workers are supplied with personal protective equipment through the coronavirus pandemic.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been working with a number of suppliers to ensure…

Newcastle-Staffs Foodbank ask community to support emergency fundraising appeal
A FUNDRAISING appeal has been launched by a foodbank to counteract a drop in donations as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
Newcastle-Staffs Foodbank, part of The Trussell Trust, is continuing to operate across the borough to ensure emergency…

Staffordshire Day Celebrations ONLINE
A series of activities will be live-streamed and broadcast via social media to help celebrate this year's Staffordshire Day...
Instead of the celebrations of previous years, which featured special events, offers and competitions - the 2020…

FOUR IN A BED HOTEL ACCOMMODATING KEYWORKERS DURING THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
On Monday March 30 Potbank Aparthotel in Stoke-on-Trent featured in popular Channel 4 reality TV show Four in a Bed. The show was set in and around the Potbank Aparthotel - a recently converted early 19th century “potbank” within the 250…

Young pen pals provide reasons to stay cheerful
Residents at Belong care village in Newcastle-under-Lyme and others in the group operated by not-for-profit care provider Belong, have found real reasons to be cheerful during the Covid-19 epidemic, as a result of an initiative from Liverpool-based…

Containers needed to help Gin distillery supply hand sanitiser
The owners of a gin distillery in Newcastle-under-Lyme have switched from producing gin to hand sanitiser during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Staffordshire Gin supplied Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council with 25 litres of the hand sanitiser…

#StokeonTrentTogether – Community Support Scheme
Residents are being encouraged to get behind a new community support scheme which has been set up to help meet the everyday needs of vulnerable people affected by the coronavirus.
#StokeonTrentTogether has been formed by the council and voluntary…

Essentials needed for Helping Angels
Burslem based charity Helping Angels are appealing for anyone who could help to donate essential items which they need to continue supporting vulnerable adults and children with disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The charity, which…
