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City Council budgets are always a controversial subject, with a focus often on the negative. However, there is another side to this, behind the revenue budget...

One issue that has been at the forefront of political debate in Stoke-on-Trent this year has been children’s social care and the rising number in the care of...

One of the less known roles that Stoke-on-Trent City Council fulfils is around audit and fraud. Recent changes mean that housing benefit fraud is now...

Over the last year, I’ve made several trips to the Macari Centre, a street homeless centre in the city centre set up by Lou Macari in 2015. The centre is in...

One of the projects supported by the incredibly successful Community Investment Fund is Trentham Mausoleum, which this Christmas opened up for a very special...

Supporting local communities to improve facilities is so important, and one which led to the launch a few years ago of our £3m Community Investment Fund. This...

Earlier this year, I was asked to take part in some filming to support Staffordshire Police’s knife campaign. Based around a poem written by a local PCSO, it...

The superb Hanley Park has been undergoing restoration over the last few years, supported by Heritage Lottery Funding to bring back and restore a number of...

This week I got a look behind the scenes at Stoke-on-Trent’s newest hotel, the 4* Hilton Garden Inn, that is currently being built in the city centre. This...