Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from StokeonTrent City Council

Plans to erect a statue of Motorhead icon Lemmy have been approved in the Staffordshire town where he was born

A giant 2.2metre statue of Motorhead's Lemmy will be erected in Burslem as Stoke-on-Trent Council approves plans

Metal Hammer

Student fined £400 for flytipping - after leaving two cardboard boxes next to bin

'For two cardboard boxes, it seems extreme'

Manchester Evening News

Vigilantes spray-paint F-word on road to warn drivers of giant pothole

The group claim they are 'sick to death of the council doing nothing' about potholes

Wales Online

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Mum slapped with £634 fine after rubbish taken by ex dumped at beauty spot

Jade Grocott's former boyfriend apparently left the rubbish there - but she is paying the penalty

Wales Online

Gardener, 74, could be kicked out of allotment after 28 years in vicious row over rules

John Silvester has spent almost three decades gardening at the Campbell Road Allotment but now faces being turfed out as he stands accused of breaking a number of rules

Daily Mirror

Man furious at council's 'threat' after he left his bins out for too long

Philip Robinson says he's received a formal written warning from Stoke-on-Trent City Council after he left his bins out after the 7pm curfew - as they threaten to seize his bins if it happens again

Daily Mirror

Neighbours at war as joiner ordered to shift caravan parked on street AND pavement

Ben Beecroft has kept a caravan outside his Sneyd Green home, in Stoke-on-Trent, for the past four winters but the latest model has parked in the spot has incurred the wrath of neighbours

Daily Mirror

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Teen mum fears for ill baby as 'council house from hell' covered in mould

Darciann Fleary says she has been battling the council for over a year to try and get the mould issue resolved.

Daily Record

Parents slam 'double standard' as boy misses year of school

Riley Roberts was expelled from school due to "behavioural issues"

Liverpool Echo

Boy misses a year of school after 'pushing teachers to the limit'

Riley Roberts was expelled from school due to "behavioural issues"

Liverpool Echo

Dumped rubbish bags attracting rats and flies outside businesses are a 'health hazard'

A business owner of a DIY and homeware shop believes the rubbish being left outside his shop in Stoke is 'unattractive' and a 'health hazard' after complaining to the council

Daily Mirror

Finally! A solution to potholes in Dumfries and Galloway

The council is considering investing in the new 'Pothole Pro' machine, which can fix a pothole in minutes

Daily Record

Woman unable to cook in 'wee-soaked and smelly' kitchen as rats keep coming up drains

Lucy Coe, from Stoke-on-Trent, said she can't cook at home and has to keep all her utensils in a separate room because rats keep covering her cupboards in fur and urine

Daily Mirror

OnlyFans model locked up in cell 'for fly-tipping she did eight years ago'

Heather Underwood said she was left shaken up after being taken into custody

Manchester Evening News

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Record

Disabled great-gran begs to be rehoused by council after front door 'kicked in'

Ann Feriday, who has suffered three strokes in the past, lives alone in a one bedroom council house.

Wales Online

Double amputee impaled on fence for five days still not ruled unfit for work by DWP

Victim Dale Whitehurst said incident had left him trapped in a never-ending “bad dream” and haunted by phantom pains

Daily Mirror

Double amputee impaled on fence for 5 days - but DWP hasn't found him unfit for work

GRAPHIC - CONTENT WARNING: Dale Whitehurst, from Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent, had both legs amputated after being impaled on a fence but said the Department for Work and Pensions has failed to declare him not fit for work

Wales Online

Mum struggling to make ends meet facing legal action after solar panel company says she owes £329

Shazmeen Khan was told that because she was a council tenant she had to have them put on

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Woman 'terrified' bailiffs will come knocking due to solar panel energy bills

Sylvia Evans has lived in her two-bed semi-detached home for more than a decade and had solar panels installed three years ago but is now terrified by her bills

Birmingham Post

First of a kind co-working space opens in city centre

Smithfield Works has been developed as part of the wider Smithfield scheme in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Daily Mirror

Stoke tower block fire: Blaze tears through flats as air ambulance rushes to scene

The air ambulance has landed near the scene of fire in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent but casualties are not known at this stage

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department for Work and Pensions

StokeonTrent City Council

21 stories

Motorhead

20 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.