Mayoral Delays Expose the Chaos Behind Labour’s Devolution Plan Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 The news of delays to the mayoral elections for Essex, Hampshire and other areas has rightly led to a few raised eyebrows within local government. But as well as having an impact in the directly effected areas, the implications of these actions should be on the radar of all other areas currently in the devolution process and heading towards a combined authority. It was always an ambitious agenda... Local News
Latest Coronavirus Updates *Updated Daily* 30th March 2020 The latest updates on Coronavirus in Stoke-on-Trent as a daily update. Thursday 13th May Recently, the sentinel reported that 'Pop-up Covid testing to be... Local News
Continuing to Push for Infrastructure Improvements 13th March 2020 Wednesday’s budget saw not only the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, call Stoke-on-Trent ‘the crucible’ of the UK, but also saw our ambitious infrastructure plans... Local News
Boris Confirms It’s #HS2AllTheWay to Stoke-on-Trent 12th February 2020 The saga of Stoke-on-Trent and HS2 stretches back a number of years - however this week’s announcement by PM Boris Johnson confirms that the city will continue... Local News
Transforming a City... 30th January 2020 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... Local News
Personally Speaking: 'Make your New Year resolution really count in 2020' 27th December 2019 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... Local NewsOpinions
Cracking Down on Blue Badge Fraud 23rd December 2019 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... Local News
Five Year Lease for Macari Centre Announced 23rd December 2019 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... Local News
Reviving Trentham Mausoleum 20th December 2019 One of the projects supported by the incredibly successful Community Investment Fund is Trentham Mausoleum, which this Christmas opened up for a very special... Local News
LGiU Podcast - GE2019: What’s at Stake for Local Government? 6th December 2019 In between campaigning, I managed to find five minutes to have a chat with LGiU about what I think is at stake for local government in the forthcoming general... Opinions
