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.
Recruitment for a £135,000-a-year role overseeing Staffordshire’s historic council shake-up has been halted after the Government ordered a pause in reorganisation work.
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Businesses across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are being urged to spare two minutes to help shape how schools prepare young people for the workplace.
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Staffordshire businesses are being invited to help inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists at an event drawing on the legacy of Spitfire designer Reginald Mitchell.
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Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is spending £134,000 on a new council-run pet crematorium which is expected to open before the end of the year.
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Staffordshire’s business community has marked MPs’ return to Westminster by setting out a nine-point Budget challenge to Government – including a call for no further tax rises, lower VAT for hospitality and major investment in the county’s infrastructure. Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce submitted its Autumn Budget representation to Chancellor John
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One of Stoke-on-Trent’s largest and most historically significant sites could be opened up to a new wave of commercial investment under plans to combine heritage regeneration with digital infrastructure and clean energy. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is developing a new vision for the approximately 100-hectare Chatterley Whitfield site which includes exploring
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Tamworth Borough Council has launched a new investment prospectus aimed at attracting developers, businesses and investors to the Staffordshire town as it builds on more than £40 million of town centre regeneration. The Tamworth Place Prospectus brings together a series of development opportunities while promoting the town’s strong transport links, established economy
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A Staffordshire waste business launched just three years ago has expanded into construction enabling works and is now taking on projects across the UK. Barlaston-based Sixtowns Waste Ltd, founded by entrepreneur Ben Trickett, has developed from a waste collection and disposal business into a contractor providing strip-outs, site clearance and
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Creative technology businesses in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are being invited to learn about a round of research and development funding available across the West Midlands. CreaTech Frontiers will return to Stoke on September 9 for a briefing on its 2026 Foundations Fund call, giving local companies an opportunity to understand
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Logistics operator Browns Distribution has launched an in-house transport management system designed to connect customers, drivers, warehouse teams and planners through a single platform. Touchbase, described by the £24 million-turnover company as its biggest technology investment to date, has been developed by Browns’ own software team rather than purchased from an external
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