A gymnastics centre forced out of its previous home by a cash-strapped council has now relaunched inside Dimensions Leisure Centre. Stoke-on-Trent City Council[1] shut Burslem[2] Gymnastics Centre last year after revealing it would cost £1.85m to keep …
Historian and Sentinel columnist Mervyn Edwards looks back on those we have lost during 2023
As we begin to pack away the tinsel and the Christmas decorations and reflect on the last 12 months, it’s as well to remember just some of those who passed on …
An administration-hit developers’ plans to build two apartment blocks on former industrial land in Stoke-on-Trent look set to get the go-ahead. Lane End Developments Construction lodged a full planning application to construct 54 affordable flats on a …
Council highways bosses want to introduce parking restrictions on 58 Stoke-on-Trent roads. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is currently consulting over its plan for ‘no waiting at any time’ measures on the selected streets.
Drivers, residents and businesse…
A driver was treated for minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash in Stoke-on-Trent left one of the cars on its side. Emergency services were called to Burslem’s Scotia Road at around 10am today (November 29).
Police[1] blocked the route as officers de…
Love em or loathe them there’s no doubt that self-serve checkouts have divided opinion. Some people see them as a more convenient option while others dislike them preferring a human touch when they go shopping.
One woman took to Mumsnet[1] to complain …
Annual checks have been ordered in all 17,500 Stoke-on-Trent council houses – in a crusade against damp and mould. Stoke-on-Trent City Council[1] has also created a crack ‘find it, fix it’ team set up to carry out repairs as quickly as possible.
It com…
Devastated friends are today leading tributes to a businessman and local boxing legend found dead in the Trent and Mersey Canal. Staffordshire Police are not treating the death of Paul Dykes as suspicious.
The 70-year-old’s body was pulled from the can…
South Gloucestershire Council’s draft Local Plan sets out where 20,490 homes will be built[1] up to the year 2040. Of these, the authority has had to find land for more than 9,000 that did not already have planning permission or sites allocated to them…
Jealous Liam Ball caused more than £20,000 worth of damage to his ex partner’s car. The 22-year-old paint sprayer also visited an address in Stone[1] and looked inside at his ex with his new partner.
The harassment has left both men feeling anxious and…
Police[1] busted a city centre cannabis factory just yards from where officers had been dismantling a major grow. And a 21-year-old has been jailed following the bust on Hanley’s[2] Regent Road.
The discovery on Sunday came days after officers had foun…
As pressure grows on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to make an announcement about the future of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 line, we take a look back at Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s failed £800,000 bid to secure a stop in the city on the h…
Two bin crews were attacked roadside rows spiralled into violence, it has emerged. Footage from StokeonTrentLive[1] shows the driver of a black Vauxhall Corsa leap from his vehicle and squares up to the crew in Fairhaven Grove, Birches Head.
After punc…
Here are the latest cases from the region’s courts:
STAFFORD:
Thirty-six-year-old Mark Andrea has been hit with a £511 court bill after he assaulted police officers and stole from a shop. Prosecutor Lee Stone told North Staffordshire Justice Centre[1] …