
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)…

Casting for Tom Dick and Harry at the New Vic
Casting has been revealed for the New Vic’s stage play inspired by the true story behind the escape from Stalag Luft III in World War II, which starts rehearsals this month and will have its world premiere at the theatre-in-the-round this…

Staffordshire University shows substantial improvement in the Research Excellence Framework
Staffordshire University has welcomed the results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) which has seen substantially more of its research rated as “internationally excellent” 3* and “world leading” 4*.
The Research Excellence…

New Location for Emmaus North Staffs
A North Staffordshire charity is moving to a new location in Hanley City Centre.
Emmaus North Staffs is moving its social enterprise from Cannon Street, Hanley to a 5,000 sq ft shop on the lower-ground floor of the Potteries Centre which will…

Queen’s Baton Relay to visit Four locations in Newcastle-under-Lyme
The route that the Queen’s Baton will take in FOUR Newcastle-under-Lyme locations in JULY...
As part of a national announcement of the route through England, the four locations that the Baton will visit in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme,…

Queen’s Baton Relay visiting Stoke-on-Trent
The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay is confirmed to visit Stoke-on-Trent during its final journey through England this summer, as the full route is revealed.
Birmingham 2022 is hosting the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay – a journey…

Support continues for the Potters Arf 2022
Support for the iconic Potters 'Arf is pouring in with weeks to go before the 2022 race...
This year it is anticipated that 1700 runners will be taking part in the 13.1 mile race on 12 June, which will also be helping to raise thousands…

Foster carers take centre stage for national campaign
Staffordshire’s foster carers are taking centre stage for Foster Care Fortnight celebrations.
Bonny Sandford and Jayne Vause are leading the county’s celebrations for the annual event - which started on 9 May 2022 - to raise the profile…

Rotary Club adding sparkle everywhere they go
A Newcastle-under-Lyme Rotary Club are storming ahead with an array of activities aimed to put a sparkle on their local community.
For the last few months, members of Wolstanton Rotary Club have been busy taking part in litter picking around…

Shortlist for Arnold Bennett Book Prize 2022
Poetry, two crime novels and a novella have made the shortlist for this year’s Arnold Bennett Book Prize.
The international prize, which was established in 2017 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Bennett, attracted many…

Local care village operator to feature in Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Album
Not-for-profit care village operator and dementia specialist Belong, which has a location on Lower Street, in Newcastle-under-Lyme - has been chosen to feature in the official publication of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations alongside…
