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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Police are hunting raiders dressed all in black who targeted a Stoke-on-Trent Co-op store in the middle of the night. The pair broke into the Co-op, in Mayne Road, Hanford, at around 3.45am yesterday (February 21). They then fled the scene on a trial bike with no lights on after …
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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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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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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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A crash closed a North Staffordshire road for hours. Neighbours reported the incident on Heathcote Road, in Halmerend. It is understood that the emergency services were alerted just before midnight last night. Pictures show police cars and ambulances at the scene. One StokeonTrentLive reader said: “One moving vehicle and two …
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A two-car crash has claimed the life of a driver and left a passenger in Stoke-on-Trent’s main hospital. Police, firefighters, paramedics were called to the crash on Rawnsley Road, in Staffordshire, on Sunday night. An air ambulance landed as part of the emergency services response. A West Midlands Ambulance Service …
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One lane of a busy roundabout remains coned off this afternoon after a crash. Sand has been put down on the carriageway and cobbles have been displaced on the roundabout linking Waterloo Road, Potteries Way and Hope Street, in Hanley. The temporary repair work means traffic travelling down Waterloo Road …
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Caverswall villagers have said goodbye to their ‘popular’ postman after 42 years of service. A farewell party was held for Dave Weston, 63, at the Auctioneers Arms in Caverswall Thursday night. The postie said it’s been a ‘real privilege’ to work as Caverswall’s postman for the last 12 years and …
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A driver suffered serious leg injuries after a car crashed into a house in Shelton. Emergency services were called to the property on Cleveland Road at 6am on Tuesday (October 17). They discovered that a white Vauxhall Corsa had ‘collided with’ a house. The 19-year-old driver, who was travelling alone, …
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