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
Supporting Communities Across Stoke-on-Trent to the ‘Tune’ of £515k! 18th January 2018 Communities are crucial to life in our city, whether it’s looking after the most vulnerable or putting on events that make our city so vibrant, so much that... ArticlesLocal News
Stoke-on-Trent Shortlisted Bid to be UK City of Culture 6th December 2017 A national competition that carried with it huge potential... win or lose. When I first suggested we bid, people laughed - but getting to the final five changed... Local News
Off to Hull to Tell Them Why Stoke-on-Trent Should Be Next City of Culture... 5th December 2017 We’re off to Hull today to give our final UK City of Culture 2021 presentation... here’s the story so far, including our fab promotional film! It’s been an... ArticlesLocal News
The Face of Stoke-on-Trent Revealed! 23rd November 2017 Great to be at the unveiling of the Face of Stoke-on-Trent this week, following a city-wide campaign as part of our UK City of Culture 2021 campaign. Over 3,500... ArticlesLocal News
Revealed : The Poppies are going to Middleport 18th October 2017 Today it’s revealed that the Poppies: Weeping Window sculpture will be in Stoke-on-Trent in August and September 2018, and located at Middleport Pottery... ArticlesLocal News
Conservative Party Conference 2017 - Contribution from the floor 2nd October 2017 What a great opportunity to address Conservative Party Conference about what we are doing in Stoke-on-Trent! Details of my contribution is below; ”Good... Local NewsSpeeches
All In A Day’s Work... 29th September 2017 Here’s a little piece I was asked to write by the LGiU on my role, and published today; Councillor Abi Brown is deputy leader of Stoke-on-Trent Council and... Opinions
Our City of Culture bid is Out of this World! 29th September 2017 Just to prove how great our UK City of Culture 2021 bid is, we sent it into space this week, complete with duck! Big thanks to everyone who made this happen... ArticlesLocal News
Valuing Stoke City FC for the City 23rd September 2017 Although I’m not from a family with a strong football allegiance, it’s hard not to be a football fan in Stoke-on-Trent. Whether it’s Stoke or Vale, it’s hard to... ArticlesLocal News
