Josiah Wedgwood has been announced as the keynote speaker at the first event staged by a group of creative businesses based in Stoke-on-Trent.
Global bathroom manufacturers brought together by their Stoke-on-Trent-based trade association have signed a landmark agreement aimed at reducing billions of litres of waste water from toilets, taps and showers around the world. At the same time they pledged to innovate and design new products to reduce the risk of potentially
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South Staffordshire-based Keon Homes is starting work on a prestigious regeneration project to build 124 dwellings in the next phases of a major Birmingham initiative. It’s starting works on phases 3A, B and C of the prestigious Icknield Port Loop Development in partnership with sister company Cameron Homes and housing association Midland Heart. This
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More road and transport changes have been announced as the next phase of improvements begin around Stoke Station. Work is starting to upgrade the area around Winton Square, outside the North Stafford Hotel, as the project enters its second phase. While this work is being carried out, the railway station’s
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Halloween fans in the county still have time to win a £50 restaurant voucher by repurposing those pumpkins and reducing waste. Staffordshire-based Willshee’s Waste & Recycling has joined forces with Burton restaurant Isabel’s to challenge the local community to show off the ways they are cutting pumpkin waste. The social
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council has named Nick Degg as Centenary Poet Laureate ahead of the city’s 100th anniversary next year. The North Staffordshire wordsmith, who is from Porthill, was appointed to the honorary position at a city council meeting and will represent the city through poetry throughout the centenary year in
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Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Abdulrazak Gurnah, will visit Staffordshire to give a public reading from his work at Keele University. Gurnah, who became the first black African writer in 35 years to win the prestigious award in 2021, will spend time working with Keele University’s Creative Writing students on
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By Esther Hancock, Tax Director, DPC Accountants Rachel Reeves delivered the most speculated budget for some years, given that the Labour Party prior to delivering the speech stated that there would be difficult decisions and tax rises would be necessary to plug the hole in the public finances. The Chancellor
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Businesses will bear the brunt of chancellor Rachel Reeves’ much anticipated (and leaked) first budget as she introduced a £40billion tax hike. £25billion of that will come from a jump in employer’s national insurance contributions. Reeves announced it will go up by 1.2 percentage points, to 15%, from April next
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Markets got the jitters after an initial calm response to the chancellor’s announcements while she was speaking in the Commons. Analysts had drawn comparisons with the disastrous Liz Truss mini-budget two years ago which spooked the markets with unfunded tax cuts. Predictions of a calm response were followed by a
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The UK’s public finance and spending watchdog concluded that Rachel Revees had delivered “large increases in spending, tax, and borrowing” with the country reaching a record tax take. In its response to the budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility confirmed: • The Budget increases spending by £70 billion annually, with two-thirds on
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