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I was delighted to be asked to speak at the Canal and River Trust Annual Public Meeting about the improvements we have made to the 15 miles of canal network...

You might recall this little piece on our recent work to keep the Stoke pound in Stoke. Interesting today to see that my tweets about council services have been...

Some good coverage of the Light Night Stoke-on-Trent launch, including an interview with BBC Radio Stoke!

It is always a pleasure to welcome government visitors to Stoke-on-Trent, but there are few occasions when this manages to chime so nicely with a number of...

What an absolute pleasure to be able to launch Light Night Stoke-on-Trent at Burslem’s old town hall, alongside the new #SoTCulture hashtag. Read my speech from...

I am sure I am not alone in noticing that, in recent years, the numbers attending Armistice Day have grown year by year. For the last few years, I have been...

It continues to be brilliant to go out and see the fab projects that the Community Investment Fund I launched a few years is supporting. On Friday I visited Our...

I have had the pleasure over the last few months of meeting lots of the groups who have benefitted from the £3m Community Investment Fund we established in 2017...

One of the first campaigns I was involved with upon becoming Deputy Leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, was the bid to host part of the iconic Tower of...