Staffordshire County, England News

BUDDING rugby stars from Kingsley have been celebrating being crowned as Staffordshire Moorlands Champions and are poised to take on other schools from the remainder of the county this weekend.

More than 800,000 homes in the East Midlands are being warned their televisions may be affected by work next week.

Three suspicious scrapyard fires in the Black Country in the past week could have been started by the same people, police say.

A HOUSING provider with properties in the Ashbourne area has had its approach to occupational safety and health recognised in an awards scheme run by the safety charity, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Former deputy leader of the Labour party Roy Hattersley has waded into a row over access to the Peak District.

Dave Ecclestone produced a fine individual display, but it wasn't enough to help his Little Stoke side beat Wedgwood.

The great marquee was filled with pyramids of cauliflowers, wreaths of peas and walnut whip-shaped displays of potatoes and tomatoes, whole walls of tulips and roses and outside the tent a series of much-anticipated show gardens.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has acquired the abandoned houses in Cardwell Street in Northwood after the owners racked up 12,000 in unpaid council tax bills.

While lambs leap in the fields and chicks spread their wings for the first time, some unexpected newborns are making themselves at home in a Staffordshire woodland.

Research by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme has found that A 5.2 billion is being stashed away across the UK - equivalent to A 196 per household, not counting money in pockets, purses and wallets.

Staffordshire residents are set to benefit from a new project aimed at rolling out fibre-based broadband services, with BT having announced that it has inked a multi-million pound partnership with the county council.

G4S , the controversial private security company, is to run services providing medical examinations and counselling for victims of rape and sexual assault in the West Midlands.

The 14 men and one woman were charged between May 7 and 23 with offences including drugs possession, drugs supply and conspiring to conceal criminal property.

Rogue dealer Geoffrey Badlan, who had already been jailed for a year for selling death trap vehicles to unsuspecting customers, has copped another six months inside.

Rogue dealer Geoffrey Badlan, who had already been jailed for a year for selling death trap vehicles to unsuspecting customers, has copped another six months inside.

More than a dozen Prince's Trust volunteers were out in Knutton and Chesterton yesterday as they embark on a 12 week course to boost their skills and CV.

Organisers of the annual two-day show - which is taking place on May 29 and 30 - say they are delighted that Staffordshire and Midland companies, as well as livestock farmers, continue to support the agricultural show.

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A NETHERTON man described as a "hopeless" cannabis addict who was caught selling the controlled drug in Stourbridge from a car carrying a friend's 23 month old baby has been allowed to keep his freedom by a Judge.

PLANS to open Stoke-on-Trent's first state-funded Muslim faith school have suffered a major setback after the bid was turned down by the Government.