Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to take urgent action in the Autumn Budget on November 26 to ease the growing pain felt by employers from rising taxes, wage costs and policy uncertainty.
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As Daily Focus continues to shine a spotlight on T Levels, Lyndsey Cherry T Level Coordinator at Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group (NSCG) - Staffordshire’s largest and most successful provider of T Levels - highlights the transformative power of employer partnerships.
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Severn Trent has outlined plans to sell off some of its green belt land in North Staffordshire to be developed into a new industrial estate which could create up to 1,000 jobs.
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Keele University honoured more than a dozen businesses, individuals and organisations at its latest Breaking the Mould Awards.
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Mutant plants are on the line-up of an expanded Halloween event at a Staffordshire farm.
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A Tamworth pub has once again made it into CAMRA’s list of the four best pubs in the UK and is in the running to be named National Pub of the Year 2025.
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Master chocolatier Paul Young, of Stone-based Chocolate at Home, has helped to organise UK Chocolate Week, celebrating the industry and all things chocolate.
Here, he writes about Staffordshire’s stand-out chocolate shops and producers, why we should be supporting them and the importance of quality ingredients.
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An appeal has been launched to track down ‘lost’ work by celebrated Stoke-on-Trent artist Arthur Berry.
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A Stafford tea room is giving a helping hand to local independent businesses by funding an innovative reward scheme aiming to encourage people to ‘shop small’.
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Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce has urged MPs to press the government for clarity on the future of business support funding, warning of a looming ‘cliff edge’ when the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) ends in March 2026.
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