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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...

Stoke-on-Trent is brilliantly positioned in the centre of the UK - perfectly situated to access the M6/M1/A50/A500, right on the West Coast mainline, and within...

Residents of Stoke-on-Trent will be familiar with the saga of the East/West Precinct and old bus station sites in Hanley. The private sector-led development...

A few years ago, I received a message from local historian Levison Wood, who was researching a book on the ‘Fighting Fifth’ Battalion of the North Staffords...

There’s some amazing projects right across Stoke-on-Trent benefitting from the Community Investment Fund! The idea of ladsanddads football started in Stoke-on...