Dame Kelly Holmes helps celebrate city's sporting successes

May 21, 2017, 3:58 pm

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The City of Stoke-on-Trent Sports Awards is taking place this week. Jenny Amphlett looks ahead to an event that will celebrate our homegrown successes and bring a sporting dame to the city.One of the biggest events in Stoke-on-Trent's sporting calendar is taking place this week, and I'm proud to have played a part in helping to organise it.On Thursday evening some 320 guests will attend a glittering awards ceremony at the King's Hall in Stoke.As our bid to be named UK City of Culture 2021...

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Three arrested following police chase in Chell

May 21, 2017, 4:03 pm

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Three people have been arrested following a police chase in Stoke-on-Trent.A number of readers contacted the Sentinel to say the police helicopter was hovering over the Chell area of the city shortly before 11pm on Sunday evening.A spokesman for the National Police Air Service, which operates police helicopters across the UK, said: "We headed up to Burslem to assist Staffordshire Police with a pursuit and decamp – three detained."It is unclear what led to the pursuit and what the...

Staffordshire's first Admiral nurse appointed to support dementia...

May 21, 2017, 8:59 pm

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The first 'Admiral nurse' in Staffordshire has been appointed to help support dementia patients and their carers.Wendy Mountford has joined the Douglas Macmillan Hospice, which wants to spread its reach to offer more services to people with life-limiting illnesses.It comes just a year after The Sentinel ran a dementia awareness campaign, highlighting how ever more people were being diagnosed with the condition.Now the hospice has teamed up with the charity Dementia UK, which oversees the network...

Our Heroes: 'Mrs Brown's the best' say Crackley Bank Primary...

May 21, 2017, 8:59 pm

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When Amanda Brown began volunteering at her local primary school, she never envisaged she would go on to maintain the building, help teach pupils and lock up at night.But that's exactly what the dedicated mother-of-two does at Crackley Bank Primary, where she also tends to the gardens and helps children learn outdoors.Now staff have nominated 47-year-old Amanda in The Sentinel's Our Heroes awards in the Education Star category.The former machine operative at Rists first headed down to the...

Here's what parents travelling abroad with children which have a...

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Parents are being urged to make themselves aware of the problems which can arise when travelling abroad with children who don't share their surname. It is not uncommon for parents to different surnames to their children, but many don't know the issues the situation can cause at airports. Potentially holiday-ruining trouble could arise including being 'unknowingly embroiled in a child abduction case' or even refused past check-in. Read more: Met Office predicts heatwave for Stoke-on-Trent...

Call to 'name and shame' yobs who destroyed tribute to teenager

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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The family of a 17-year-old girl who died from a rare genetic disorder have called for the vandals who smashed up a memorial bench to be 'named and shamed'.The granite seat at Carmountside Crematorium featured a plaque inscribed with Chantelle O'Brien's name and had been installed near her grave.Now her parents – who have raised more than £15,500 in their daughter's memory since her death in 2008 – hope Staffordshire Police will trace the offenders. The damage was caused on...

Starter homes to be built on former Stoke-on-Trent school sites

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Two former school sites are set to be redeveloped to provide starter homes for young adults struggling to get on the housing ladder.The plans will see more than 430 new houses built at key sites across the city, with half of them available to buy at a 20 per cent discount.Stoke-on-Trent City Council has identified four plots of local authority-owned land to benefit from a £1.2 billion national Government scheme. They will be cleared and prepared for sale to private developers, who will...

General Election: Will Tories end Labour's 98-year hold on...

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Apathy is usually the winner at election time. And in the past, it's been all too easy for non-voters to shrug their shoulders, saying 'Why bother – my vote won't count'. But if you live in an ultra-marginal constituency like Newcastle, every single cross on the ballot slip really does matter. Back in 2015, Labour squeaked through with 650 votes to spare – a 1.5 per cent majority. As the ninth most marginal Labour-held seat in the UK, it has now become the Conservatives' top West...

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Middleport teaching assistant drove home while three-and-a-half...

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Teaching assistant Samantha Thompson drove home from the pub while three-and-a-half times the legal limit.The 43-year-old had been drinking wine at pubs in Smallthorne and Burslem after going to the funeral of a family friend.But a member of the public reported her to police as she set off from the Duke William, in Burslem, to drive the short distance to her Middleport home on May 2. Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard officers then went to her house, where she admitted drink...

Big Issue: Should sexual history be brought up in rape cases?

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Calls have been made to stop a victim's sexual history being discussed in rape trials. Reporter Dave Knapper looks at why they may be deterred from going through the court process...Thousands of women in England and Wales are raped every year, with just a fraction of those who experienced sexual violence reporting it.Part of this may be down to a victim's lack of confidence and fears over having to re-live the ordeal under cross-examination in court, when their own sexual history may be...

Hanley Health and Well-being walk-in centre faces uncertain...

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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NHS leaders say they can't guarantee a popular walk-in centre will remain open beyond next month after the private firm running the service pulled out.But more than 3,000 patients who use a GP surgery based within the same complex have been thrown a lifeline as another provider has been lined up to take over its work there.The future of Hanley Health and Well-being Centre was thrown into question after it emerged Care UK was not renewing its contract when it finishes at the end of June.It has...

Bulldozer moves in to make way for new Cobridge housing...

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Work has begun to prepare condemned houses for demolition to make way for a new 193-home estate.Sixteen houses in Crane Street, Cobridge, will be bulldozed after developer Barratt Homes was granted permission to transform the old Churchill China site.The 10-acre housing estate will include one-bedroom maisonettes, as well as two, three and four-bedroom family homes, boasting private gardens and parking. It will be a mixture of terrace, semi-detached and detached properties.Businesses and...

Newcastle Town FC takes control of Roe Lane playing fields

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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More youngsters could soon be developing their football skills after a club took over council-run sports facilities.Newcastle Town FC is to manage Roe Lane playing fields, in Seabridge, until 2044 after striking a deal with Newcastle Borough Council.The partnership aims to increase sporting opportunities for children and the community, with the club hoping to install floodlights, a 3G pitch and a gym.Gavin Appleby, the club's director of youth, said: "Being one of the leading clubs in football...

Families claim 3am lorries are keeping them awake

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Residents say they have been forced to move bedrooms for a peaceful night's sleep as lorries are thundering along a rural road as early as 3am.HGVs have been using Langot Lane at Fairoak, near Eccleshall, for several decades. But in recent months, families have complained about the noise and frequency of large vehicles.Now Eccleshall Parish Council is carrying out a survey of lorry usage of the area's roads, including Langot Lane. It comes as local hauliers maintain that alternative routes are...

Morrisons wants to open Knutton supermarket from 7am

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Supermarket giant Morrisons wants to extend the opening times at one of its branches – so it can welcome shoppers at 7am.It has applied for permission to open its Lower Milehouse Lane store, in Knutton, one hour earlier on Mondays to Saturdays. This excludes the four days prior to Christmas Eve, when doors will open at 6am.Now Newcastle Borough Council's planning committee will vote on whether to approve the changes at a meeting on Tuesday night.A consultants' report drawn up on behalf of...

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Bank Holiday weekend forecast to be Stoke-on-Trent's hottest of...

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Let's be honest, the weather this May has been pretty average. But all that should be about to change as the Met Office has predicted a heatwave in Stoke-on-Trent starting today.That's right, summer temperatures are officially here as the mercury in the city is set to break through the 20-degree barrier for only the second time this month.And the best thing is, they are going to keep rising steadily as we head into the Bank Holiday weekend.Read more: Motorcyclist, 53, killed in serious collision...

Man 'off his head' on monkey dust when he beat his ex-partner in...

May 21, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Jealous Benjamin Poole struck his former partner with the back of his hand and a table leg after discovering she was seeing another man.Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard the 32-year-old was in a turbulent relationship that had come to an end and he became enraged when he found out a third party was involved.Poole was intoxicated with drink and drugs when he went to track down his ex-partner. He then beat her in the street in broad daylight on February 7.Prosecuting, Neil Athuja, said: "On...

Three arrested after robbery in Wilmslow leads to police chase...

May 21, 2017, 9:15 pm

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Three men have been arrested on suspicion of robbery after leading police on a chase across three counties – which came to an end in a Moorlands village.The robbery allegedly took place in Wilmslow in North Cheshire on Saturday morning.Police chased the man from Cheshire into Derbyshire and followed them through Buxton and into Leek and Cheadle before the chase came to an end in Alton.A police helicopter was also deployed during the pursuit.A Staffordshire Police spokesman said:...

Firefighters free woman trapped in bathroom in Sandbach

May 21, 2017, 9:15 pm

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Firefighters had to free a woman after she became trapped in a bathroom.Emergency services were called to the scene on Moss Lane in Sandbach at 1.11pm on Saturday afternoon.One fire engine from Sandbach attended and the woman was set free.A spokeswoman for Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "A woman was trapped/locked inside a bathroom, so firefighters released the woman from the room."It wasn't the only case of someone being locked in a bathroom that afternoon in Cheshire.Around...

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May 21, 2017, 10:00 pm

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Along with the rest of the country, voters from across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire will go to the polls on June 8. From now until election day we'll be bringing you all the latest news, polls and campaigning from the candidates both nationally and across our constituencies in Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffordshire and South Cheshire. Here you'll find all the latest news on the constituencies of Stoke-on-Trent North, Stoke-on-Trent South, Stoke-on-Trent Central, Newcastle-under-Lyme,...