Police have taped off a town centre post office after an ‘attempted burglary’. A sign has gone up in the window at Cheadle Post Office, based off Tape Street car park, to tell residents it’s currently shut. This morning and the facility has police tape outside as an investigation gets …
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A drunken son brutally attacked his own mother, burned her with hot oil and bit her during a violent outburst in her own home. Edward Castor refused to leave his mother’s Newcastle home after she asked him to leave when he began verbally abusing her after a day of drinking …
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Police have seized cannabis, cocaine and cash – after stopping a car on a city street. Officers pulled over the car on Trent Vale’s Keelings Drive. And that stop resulted in a property being searched. Following the sting, which unfolded on February 8, officers arrested a 20-year-old man, from Stoke-on-Trent. …
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A thug who racially abused a Metro guard and suffocated a former partner has been jailed. During a torrent of abuse Lewis Nicholson, 26, told the guard at North Shields Metro Station to go back to his home country, along with other racially aggravated language, and threatened to throw staff …
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Families heard a ‘loud bang’ as a post box was stolen from their village. And the theft in the centre of Rudyard has damaged the road and pavement. Now police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which took place at around 10.40pm on Monday. StokeonTrentLive had previously reported how …
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The Royal Mail has apologised after a woman took her own life while on the phone to management after she was one of five women to be sexually abused by a perverted postman 19:09, 19 Feb 2025Updated 19:12, 19 Feb 2025 Sick Michael Stewart(Image: PA) A woman tragically took her …
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Officers have issued advice following a spate of interference with vehicles in a Suffolk town. Police received multiple reports of three people wearing full tracksuits with their hoods up attempting to gain access to motor vehicles in Saxmundham at about 5am on Sunday. In one of the incidents, the trio …
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Thieves have hauled off a post box from the middle of a North Staffordshire village. The red box, on a black pole, had previously sat in Rudyard. Now it’s gone after being ripped out from its location near the mini-roundabout at the Camrose Hill and Rudyard Road junction. Today and …
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Three Northern Ireland victims of the Post Office IT scandal have been awarded £1.8 million in redress payments. More than 900 former sub-postmasters across the UK were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 because the Horizon computer system wrongly showed missing payments from their branch accounts. Convictions were quashed by …
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A teenage musician ‘froze’ when an internationally-renowned professor groped her as she played her violin at the world’s best music school, a court has been told. Jan Repko, 66, was standing behind the 18-year-old as she played when he allegedly undid her trousers and assaulted her before asking her ‘how …
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