Here’s the list The Wammy in Knutton Council leaders say that proposed new legal protection for green spaces will stop them being developed under a future ‘super council’. Newcastle Borough Council is applying to have dozens of sites registered with Fields in Trust, a national charity which works with landowners …
Read More »18 death notices in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire this week
Our thoughts and prayers are with their loved-ones 22:30, 16 Dec 2025Updated 05:56, 17 Dec 2025 Here are this week’s funeral notices. These are the death notices published in this week’s editions of The Sentinel. Our thoughts are with the families and friends of their loved-ones. You can see the …
Read More »Tribute to Royal Mail worker whose death left colleagues ‘inconsolable’
Staff at a Stoke-on-Trent Royal Mail office have paid tribute to a much-loved colleague by naming their new building in his honour. Steve Cooper, of Chesterton, died unexpectedly in March last year of a massive heart attack, leaving his family, friends and colleagues devastated. The 62-year-old, who had three children …
Read More »Postie suspended after fight breaks out in row over parcel
Royal Mail delivery driver Mark Walker has been suspended on no pay after a row over a parcel ended in a street fight with punches being thrown. The 38-year-old says he had left a parcel on the doorstep of a Longton property after failing to get an answer. But as …
Read More »Plans lodged for North Staffordshire’s newest fish and chip shop
Plans have been put forward to open a fish and chip shop – in a former nail bar. An application has been submitted to convert the unit on Chesterton’s London Road. The scheme put to Newcastle Borough Council is seeking permission for a change of use from a shop to …
Read More »Rampant weeds, fleas in ice lollies and delivery mix-ups – 29 of the angriest North Staffordshire men and women of 2020
Even the meekest among us can lose their cool when pushed to the edge – especially when we’ve all endured a turbulent year. In fact, it seems to have happened a fair bit in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire in 2020. Like any good local news outlet, we’ve been inundated with …
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