What will be in the Budget? A giveaway to stoke a post-pandemic recovery

Rishi Sunak: Ready to help stoke a post-lockdown boom The Government is expected to follow up its successful vaccine programme with a feel-good giveaway Budget to stimulate an economic recovery from the pandemic.  Chancellor Rishi Sunak is apparently prepared to help stoke a post-lockdown boom, and put off tax rises to pay the mammoth Covid-19 … Read more

Stoke on Trent drug driver Ethan Vernall is jailed for 14 months

Drug driver goes the wrong way down dual carriageway in dramatic 40-minute chase captured in police dashcam and helicopter footage  Ethan Vernall,30, was captured in shocking video footage during a car chase He was spotted speeding through Stoke-on-Trent on April 19, 2020 by police   The father-of-four was jailed for 14 months at Stoke on Trent … Read more

Britain’s fattest regions include Wirral, Wigan, Stoke and Nottingham

The people of Wirral are officially the fattest in Britain with more hospital admissions for obesity-related illnesses than anywhere else in the country.  Hot on their heels are those who live in Wigan, York, Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham. The five regions all recorded admission rates of over 3,000 per 100,000 population. However, Wokingham and West Berkshire … Read more

Stoke is the kindest town in the UK with the most generous residents

Stoke is the kindest town in the UK with the most generous residents as 70% performed at least three good deeds in the last month, study says Craft company Cricut asked 2,000 Britons which acts of kindness they had done  Options included shopping for a neighbour or buying food for a homeless person 68 per … Read more

Murder probe after woman, 29, who fled house in Stoke dies of stab wounds and man, 39, is arrested

Murder probe after woman, 29, who fled house in Stoke dies of stab wounds and man, 39, is arrested The victim with stab wounds was seen fleeing onto the road in Stoke on Friday It followed a disturbance at a house in Leigh Street, Burslem, in Staffordshire Detectives are questioning a man from Bournemouth on suspicion of … Read more

Sunderland, Dundee and Stoke On Trent see the sharpest rise in housing transactions

The locations with the biggest jump in housing transactions during the pandemic have been revealed. They include Sunderland, Dundee and Stoke-on-Trent, according to the exclusive figures by Lloyds Banking Group. It found that Sunderland saw the biggest rise in the number of transactions, up 91.3 per cent in the three months from June to August, … Read more

Bills stoke grief for families in council tax trap after bereavement

Many bereaved families are suffering at the hands of heartless local authorities unwilling to extend council tax exemptions on empty properties that could not be sold during lockdown.  The Mail on Sunday has been flooded with heartbreaking stories of grieving relatives hit with unexpected council tax bills following our report on the issue last week.  … Read more

Stoke boy, six, saves his pregnant mother and unborn sister’s life by using iPad to call for help

Boy, six, saves his pregnant mother and unborn sister’s life by using iPad to call for help and pushing keys through letterbox for paramedics after she collapsed at home with sepsis Max Lewis, six, called his aunt Sonia to tell her his mother was ‘breathing funny’ Nicky Lewis, 31, had developed sepsis while she was … Read more