17,000 council house tenants in Stoke-on-Trent are facing an inflation-busting rent increase - from April. Stoke-on-Trent City Council cabinet is today expected to back the proposed 4.5 per cent rent ...

A business has shut with immediate effect - and is 'going into administation'. Leisure Sales Cheshire - on Holmes Chapel Road, near Sandbach - has been operating for decades. But it closed for good ...

An inquest has been opened and adjourned following the death of a 23-year-old man. James Huthwaite was tragically found dead at his Staffordshire home on August 25. Emergency services were called in ...

Balaclavas could be banned in Stoke-on-Trent. It comes as a number of councils have already introduced balaclava bans in a crackdown on anti-social behaviour. Now Stoke-on-Trent City Council is ...

Two men and a schoolboy were part of a gang who forced their way into a Stoke-on-Trent home and battered a man in front of his family in a revenge attack. Kevin Bradburn senior, Dean Marshall, and ...

The funeral of a Stoke-on-Trent teenager whose death has sparked a murder investigation takes place today. Nineteen-year-old Bradley Whieldon, from Abbey Hulton, was pronounced dead at a property on ...

Five fire engines were called to a blaze at a city centre restaurant. During the height of the incident at Malabar Majlis, in ...

Met Office Scientist Dr Emily Carlisle said: “October saw a notable shift towards more unsettled weather, with low-pressure ...

Troubled Sean Ryles assaulted police officers after self-harming live on social media. The 27-year-old set fire to his own ...

Labour has announced it will end its coalition with the Greens on Stafford Borough Council over the party's 'Zionism is ...

A news round up of the Stoke City players out on loan this season as Milan Smit scores an improvised goal for Darmstadt ...

Police, paramedics and a structural engineer were sent to a North Staffordshire takeaway - after a car ploughed into it.