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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Newcastle’s newest eatery is set to open its doors next week after its owner transformed a clinic into a cosy international café. Fresco Café and Eatery will launch on Monday, November 4, with the Merrial Street venue offering a range of British, Polish and Italian food seven days a week.
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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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A free Diwali celebration is taking place in Stoke-on-Trent this weekend featuring traditional music, dance and crafts. The Potteries Museum in Hanley is set to host the event in honour of the Hindu and Sikh festival of lights on Saturday, November 2, from 11am to 5:30pm. Professional artists and local
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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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Staffordshire businesses across a range of sectors responding to yesterday’s budget described a mixed bag of bad and good news, plus a few surprises thrown into the mix. Liam Nicholson, Associate Director at RSM UK, Tax based on Festival Park, offered the following post-budget reaction: “My initial response to the
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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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