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MURDER ARREST AS WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN CITY FLAT

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman from Longton was found dead in a flat. Police discovered the body of a woman in her 20s after they were sent to Oakwell Court early yesterday. A 30-year-old man from Stoke-on-trent was later...

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FAMILIES are being invited to enjoy a free day of Caribbean culture, music and entertainment when Six Towns Carnival returns to Hanley Park tomorrow. The event promises a packed programme celebrating Caribbean traditions under the theme ‘Connecting...

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7 JAILED FOR ROLES IN CITY VIOLENCE

SEVEN men involved in large-scale violent disorder in Hanley city centre have been jailed. Imran Akhtargul, Ammer Osman, Danyar Hussain, Ilyas Ahmed, Faud Jameel, Chand Amin, and Hassan Mir were involved in the August 2024 Hanley riots. Now all seven...

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INQUIRY IS LAUNCHED OVER RAPE OF GIRL, 17

POLICE have launched an investigation after a teenage girl was raped at a beauty spot. Police set up a crime scene following the Berryhill Fields sex attack. Staffordshire Police were alerted at 8.15pm on Thursday. It happened off the Dividy Road...

COUNCIL STAFF TO ‘WALK OUT’ ON STRIKE TWO DAYS THIS WEEK

COUNCIL house repair staff will go on strike again from today as their dispute with employers continues. Unite members at Stoke-ontrent City Council’s repairs and maintenance service took part in four walkouts last month as part of a national dispute...

Will England win the World Cup? Potters fan Jack has put the house (deposit) on it!

A STOKE City supporter has spent his £40,000 house deposit on taking his father to watch England ‘win the World Cup’. Jack Goodwin says he has booked his hotels, flights and tickets to every game England can play in until the final in New Jersey on...

‘YEAR’S WAIT FOR A HERNIA OP LEFT ME LOOKING AS IF I’M PREGNANT’

‘DESPERATE’ Diana Poole has been waiting more than a year for surgery at the Royal Stoke – and says she is in constant pain from a hernia that makes her ‘look pregnant’. The 51-year-old had gallbladder surgery in December 2024 but post-op...

ROADS RETHINK TO CUT CRASHES IN MOTHER TOWN

NEW spaces and a ban on cars using a busy road are part of proposals to improve parking in Burslem – and tackle collisions in the town centre. Highways officials plan to put a no-entry on Market Place’s junction with Wedgwood Place, where a new...

MANHUNT AFTER CITY STABBING

POLICE are hunting two men after a stabbing in the city. The victim was attacked outside a property on Malpass Walk in Goldenhill at 3.30am yesterday. He was taken to the Royal Stoke after suffering injuries described as ‘not believed to be...

TEEN LOCKED UP FOR THREATS TO ‘BOMB COLLEGE AND KILL STUDENTS’

A TEENAGER who ‘idolised serial killers’ and threatened to bomb his college has been jailed for three years and nine months. Jagger Strang, 18, from Stafford, was reported to the police after he told peers at Stafford College that he wanted to blow up...

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2 CHILDREN HURT AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR OUTSIDE SCHOOL

A GIRL suffered ‘serious injuries’ after being hit by a car outside a city primary school. A boy suffered ‘potentially serious injuries’ in the same incident outside Burnwood Primary Academy in Chell Heath yesterday. School staff rushed outside to...

AMBULANCE BOSSES PUT CITY ON RED ALERT OVER HEATWAVE

AMBULANCE service bosses have issued a warning about the dangers of ‘extreme heat’ as a red heat-health alert was issued for North Staffordshire. The alert, which has been in place since 1am today and runs until 11pm, is the highest level of...

FOURTEEN NEW REPAIR TEAMS TO TARGET POTHOLES

EXTRA highways crews will be in place to help tackle road defects across Staffordshire over the summer. Fourteen extra repair teams will be up and running by the end of June, with the crucial task of fixing the county’s potholes and other...

COPS HUNT FOR A MASKED MAN AFTER WOMAN RAPED IN PARK

DETECTIVES have launched a rape investigation after a woman was attacked at a city park. Officers were called to Central Forest Park where the suspect had left the area. Now specialist officers are supporting the victim as Staffordshire Police has...

£14.8M COUNCIL BILL FOR 8,500 REPAIR JOBS AT CITY SCHOOLS

A COUNCIL will spend £14.8 million on thousands of school repair jobs following the collapse of its PFI provider. Stoke-on-trent City Council’s 25year schools private finance initiative expired last October with many handback works still...

MAN JAILED AFTER LIME KILN LIGHTS ROAD RAGE

ANGRY William Armour reversed into a car after fighting with the driver in a Lime Kiln lights road-rage bust-up. The 39-year-old was taking his stepson to college when he tried to force his way ahead of a black Mercedes car on Leek Road, Hanley. But...

HOMES PLAN AT EX-POTBANKS POSES ‘RISK’ TO NEARBY SCHOOL

PLANS to turn two former pottery factories into 72 homes are set to be approved – despite strong objections from a neighbouring school. Sterling Property Co Ltd’s plans for the Atlas and Cleveland Works in Shelton would see the existing buildings...

PROBE INTO MASSIVE FIRE AT SCRAPYARD

AN investigation is underway after a huge fire ripped through a city scrap metal yard. The blaze at Moores Metals led to part of Chemical Lane, off the A500, being closed off. Crews were called out at just before 3.30am yesterday with a huge plume of...

MAN WHO WAS RESTRAINED IN STREET DIES IN HOSPITAL

POLICE are treating the death of a man as ‘unexplained’. They were called out at just after 10am on Sunday to reports of a man ‘acting erratically’ in London Road, Stoke, and he was taken to hospital. Now Staffordshire Police have referred themselves...

TRIBUTE AFTER FAMILY’S ‘RAY OF SUNSHINE’ LOSES CANCER FIGHT

A DAD has led tributes to his ‘incredible’ daughter after she lost her three-year cancer fight. Former City of Stoke-on-trent Sixth Form College student Madi Foster tragically passed away at Katherine House Hospice, in Stafford, this month. The...

KING’S HONOUR FOR LOU

STOKE City legend and homeless champion Lou Macari has been awarded an MBE. The long-awaited recognition has been announced in the list of King’s Birthday Honours recipients. It is now 10 years since Lou first opened The Macari Centre in...

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STRUGGLING FAMILY CAN’T AFFORD TO BURY THEIR UNCLE JOHN – SO NEED YOUR HELP

A Cash-strapped family have been driven to desperation after the loss of their loved-one. John Ferguson, of Blurton, passed away at The Dougie Mac on May 9. The 61-year-old – who had severe epilepsy throughout his life – relied on his family for...

MUM LEADS TRIBUTES TO ‘AMAZING’ SON JOEL

A MOTHER has been left devastated by the death of her teenage son – just 10 days before his 20th birthday. Fun-loving Joel Hinton was wellknown for his ‘one-liners’ around Newcastle College and at his Alton Towers job. But the 19-year-old had had an...

TRUST IN TOP 5 FOR REDUCING WAITING TIMES

THOUSANDS fewer patients of the trust running the Royal Stoke are now waiting longer than the NHS says they should for treatment. The revelation comes as the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been named among the top five...

‘The care has been absolutely amazing... the doctors and nurses are just brilliant’

THE Royal Stoke has treated its first patient with a new gene-targeting therapy for a rare form of motor neurone disease. Michael Dean is the first patient at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust identified with a specific genetic form of...

Stevie’s new salon is a real wonder!

PARAMEDIC Stevie Dale has switched careers to open a beauty and aesthetics clinic with a friend. The 35-year-old has teamed up with Natalie Wilton to found A Little Serendipity Collective in Wolstanton High Street. Stevie had always been a ‘girly...

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THOUSANDS of people who backed a campaign to change the law in memory of a six-year-old girl killed by a drink and drug driver have had their voices heard in Parliament. More than 2,000 Staffordshire people took part in a consultation in support of...

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25 ARRESTS IN MAJOR POLICE MONKEY DUST CRACKDOWN

ALMOST £20,000 in cash has been seized and 25 people arrested in a police crackdown on monkey dust. Staffordshire Police has carried out 18 drug seizures since the end of November in a bid to tackle the drug that is blighting...

TWO MEN QUIZZED OVER MURDER BID

POLICE have made two attempted murder arrests after a man was found with a ‘serious head injury’. An air ambulance along with two ambulances were among the emergency services sent to the scene in Hanley where a police cordon went up. Now officers...

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Can ewe believe it? Wool specialist claims hat-trick of royal awards

A SUSTAINABLE packaging company is thought to have become the first in the country to scoop what it calls ‘a royal hat trick.’ Stone-based Woolcool has been awarded a King’s Award for International Trade. It follows its receipt of the Queen’s Award...

COPS QUIZ MAN OVER MURDER BID

A MAN is in hospital following a stabbing in North Staffordshire. Police have arrested a 25-year-old on suspicion of attempted murder over the alleged attack in Silverdale Road in Newcastle. 999 crews were called and paramedics treated the man for...

TEENAGER ADMITS COLLEGE BOMB THREAT

A TEENAGER has admitted possessing explosive substances and threatening to bomb a college. Jagger Strang, aged 18, from Stafford, was due to go on trial for nine offences at Leicester Crown Court yesterday. But on the morning of the trial, he pleaded...

WOMAN, 20, DIES AFTER A34 CRASH

A Stoke-on-trent woman has died in an A34 crash. The 20-year-old – from Chell – was a passenger in an Audi which smashed into a parked Range Rover. Cheshire Police closed Newcastle Road, in Scholar Green, for hours following the crash. It happened at...

TEENAGER’S SIX-HOUR WAIT IN AGONY WITH A BROKEN LEG

A SERIOUSLY injured teenager was left in agony with a broken leg at a beauty spot for more than six hours – waiting for an ambulance. The alarm was raised at 4.23pm on Wednesday, April 22 after the 16-year-old skateboarder broke his leg in three...

COPS CALLED IN AS PUPIL AT CITY PRIMARY TAKES KNIFE TO SCHOOL

POLICE have been called in after a child took a kitchen knife into their Stoke-on-trent primary school. Sandon Primary School, in Meir, issued a statement over the weekend to parents following the incident on Friday. Parents have shared the school’s...

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Road workers issued with body cams to record ‘aggressive and threatening behavour’ after: ■ One highways crew member was ‘clipped’ by a car and threatened by a driver after falling to the floor; ■ Contractor reveals 76 incidents so far this year of...

‘I used to shop here when it was Sainsbury’s – it is now completely unrecognisable’

A NEW £43 million city centre health complex has welcomed its first patients – as part of a major milestone in improving access to vital tests and scans. The Stoke-on-trent Community Diagnostic Centre in Hanley opened on Monday and will provide a...

TEACHER AVOIDS JAIL AFTER SEX WITH PUPIL, 16

TEACHER Clark Eastwood had sex with one of his pupils. The 52-year-old lost his job after the allegation came to light in 2023. He admitted abusing his position of trust and having sex with the schoolgirl decades earlier. Now Eastwood has been...

MUM LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS IN MEMORY OF KAYLA,15

A MOTHER has been left heartbroken following the sudden death of her ‘truly extraordinary and beautiful’ teenage daughter. Kayla Smith, of Tunstall, died in the early hours of March 30 following emergency surgery at the Royal Stoke University...

‘WHY ARE YOU IGNORING US?’

RESIDENTS fighting plans to build hundreds of homes on greenfield land have accused their council of ignoring them. Stoke-on-trent City Council is carrying out a consultation on the draft Packmoor masterplan, which includes proposals to build up to...

FAMILY’S PLEA AS WILL, 39, LOSES BRAVE CANCER FIGHT

STOKE City fans are being urged to join a stadium-wide tribute in memory of one of their own. Will Brazier’s grieving family are calling on supporters to applaud during the 39th minute of Stoke City’s final home Championship fixture against Portsmouth...

£4.7M PLAN TO MAKE SEVEN CITY TOWER BLOCKS SAFER

COUNCIL leaders have agreed to use £4.7 million of grant funding to improve fire safety at seven high-rise blocks of flats. Stoke-on-trent City Council will spend the money from Homes England on works at tower blocks which have been assessed as having...

AIRLIFT AFTER CHILD HIT BY A CAR

A CHILD has been airlifted to hospital. The youngster was being flown to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, after being struck by a car in Commercial Road, in Hanley. The alarm was raised at 4.01pm yesterday. The air ambulance had landed in a...

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POTTERS TURN OUT IN FORCE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO BRAVE OLLIE, 8

MOURNERS gathered yesterday to say goodbye to a Stoke City superfan who captured everyone’s hearts. Brave Ollie Royles, 8, above right, lost his fight to cancer on March 14. Ollie, from Crackley, was first diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma in February...

NEW URGENT CARE CENTRE BID TO END ‘CORRIDOR CARE’ AT A&E

PATIENTS across North Staffordshire will be seen in a new urgent treatment centre (UTC) at the Royal Stoke – in a bid to reduce corridor care and ease pressures on A&E. MP Gareth Snell revealed that the complex will receive one of the new UTCS as part...

MP HITS OUT AT LACK OF HELP FOR CERAMICS SECTOR IN CITY

A LABOUR MP has warned that Stoke-on-trent ceramics factories will close due to a lack of support from the government on energy costs. Stoke-on-trent Central MP Gareth Snell hit out at the government’s new British Industrial Competitive Scheme (BICS),...

‘INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS’

Councillor warns busy road in city could be closed off because drivers are: ■ Jumping three-way lights controlling roadworks; ■ Moving and tampering with the traffic lights; ■ All of which is forcing all the lights to remain on red.

‘LOSING ALEX HAS BEEN THE HARDEST THING IMAGINABLE FOR ALL OF US’

THE grieving mother of 17-yearold Alex Woodward who was killed in a hit-and-run has spoken of her devastation. Alex was walking to a shop with friends when he was mowed down in Dawlish Drive, Bentilee, by 17-yearold Harley Hough who was driving a BMW...