Stoke on Trent, England News

It's no secret that the venerable British ceramics factories of Stoke-on-Trent have fallen on hard times.

TWO 17-year-olds have been jailed for robbing teenagers of their mobile phones. Lloyd Withington, of Cauldon Avenue, Newcastle, and Dwayne Rowe, of North Street, Newcastle, were in a group which approached a 16-year-old lad and his female friend in Lancaster Road, Newcastle, at 1.30pm on September 15.

A businessman who tried to cover up the murder of his wife by setting fire to their Stoke-on-Trent home will be sentenced.

Councillors in Stoke-on-Trent have approved a development agreement which will see the construction of a A 275m regional shopping centre and a new bus station in the centre of the city.

TEENAGE robber David McKay has been sent to custody for two years and four months after he beat up and robbed two men.

A teenager has undergone major surgery after being found stabbed outside a police custody centre in Staffordshire.

A 36-year-old man has been charged after a woman was found unconscious with serious head injuries outside a pub in Stoke-on-Trent. Police said the 36-year-old woman was found outside the Verda Stelo, formerly known as the Green Star pub, in Esperanto Way, early on Saturday.

Stoke-on-Trent is still the centre of the ceramics world, as an upcoming festival will reveal.

PEOPLE living in Stoke-on-Trent have a far smaller chance of surviving cancer than those in the rest of Staffordshire and South Cheshire.

MYSTERY still surrounds how a 49-year-old man crashed into a stationary vehicle on a stretch of the A50 in Uttoxeter closed for roadworks after his inquest last week.

A MAN was being questioned by police last night in connection with a fire which tore through an empty pottery factory, causing traffic chaos for hundreds of motorists.

A man has been arrested over a fire that broke out at a disused pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent. Emergency crews were called to a fire in Waterloo Road, in the Cobridge area of the city, at about 1540 GMT.

A 46-year-old man killed in a crash on the M6 in Lancashire has been named. Mark Fowles, from Alsagers Bank in Stoke-on-Trent, suffered fatal injuries when his Renault Scenic left the motorway and veered over the embankment near Charnock Richard on Saturday night.

HALF the people killed on roads in North Staffordshire last year were aged 25 or under, figures reveal today.

Bristol boxer Danny Butler has sought to pile pressure on rival Darren Barker ahead of the biggest fight of his career.

Part of a decorated helmet and the 'Folded Cross' The independent Treasure Valuation Committee reached the figure after meeting at the museum.

A mother who stabbed to death a man who invited her to stay at his Stoke-on-Trent home was suffering from a rare psychiatric disorder, a court heard.

POLICE are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ashbourne jeweller Lionel Webster - who died last month at a house in Barlaston.

MORE than 70 firefighters were called to tackle a fire at a derelict factory. Engines from eight stations are on the scene of the fire at the former Uno factory on Newstead Industrial Estate.

WE want to get out into the community and help the people of Basingstoke. That is the message from Captains Elaine and Fred Eardley, the new leaders of the Salvation Army in the town.