Staffordshire County, England News

The Prince of Wales will pay a visit to a Victorian pottery which was saved from closure by one of his charities.

A Lancaster bomber is to perform a flypast at Derwent Reservoir as part of events to mark the 70th anniversary of the war-time Dambusters air raid.

STAFFORDSHIRE County Council leader Philip Atkins yesterday unveiled a new stripped down cabinet focused on uniting communities and rebuilding the economy.

BOSSES at a Black Country training charity say they are completely baffled as to why their star pupil can't find a job.

A BLACK Country MP is urging people to reveal the good and bad about a Dudley hospital at the centre of a death rate probe.

STAFFORDSHIRE'S own finalist in the 2011 series of Britain's Got Talent is to play a special show in East Staffordshire tomorrow night.

Jason Potts, aged 22, and a 16-year-old youth approached their victim as he walked along Brownhills Road, Tunstall, listening to his iPod.

THE parents of 17-year-old Sam Fallows have paid tribute to a 'loving son who had a big, beautiful smile.' Sam, a student from Churnet View, Oakamoor, below, died last weekend after he was found unconscious at the JCB Academy in Rocester.

TEENAGERS briefed Education Secretary Michael Gove on how to get students involved in running schools when he visited their own comprehensive to find out the secrets of its success.

While lambs leap in the fields and chicks spread their wings for the first time, some unexpected newborns are making themselves at home in a Staffordshire woodland.

David and Wendy Hewitt, from Llangoed, who were both in their 70s, suffered serious injuries after their car collided with another vehicle and a skip in Beaumaris last Wednesday.

STRAINING services in the A&E department at Queen's Hospital are being put under extra pressure by patients who fail to seek help from alternative sources.

THE summer of festivals gets under way this weekend and the Midlands is once again the hub for all music lovers.

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ONE of four rebels who have cost the Tories their overall majority on East Staffordshire Borough Council by quitting the ruling group has said returning to the fold 'would be the ideal position'. Ex-cabinet member Malcolm Barrett offered hope of resolving the six-day crisis just 24 hours after the Mail revealed he and fellow malcontents Robert ... (more)

MAGGIE Thompson is attempting to complete the final piece in her cycling jigsaw this week by riding from Glasgow to John O'Groats. It's the third and final leg in her solo length of Britain epic which the 61-year-old is determined to complete.

Hartshill and Basford councillor Shaun Pender is taking over the education brief and veteran politician Terry Crowe will be in charge of the city's finances.

HALESOWEN student Chris Morgan has beaten the odds by clinching a City and Guilds medal for excellence while receiving treatment for leukaemia.

THE wife of Dudley's former leader of the council has followed her husband's lead in quitting the borough's Conservative group in a bitter condemnation of ex-colleagues. Stourbridge Councillor Les Jones, former Dudley Council leader, resigned the whip after months of in-fighting following heavy local election defeats which handed control of the ... (more)

Talks have been held with developers over the town's former indoor market and Burslem Town Hall, which has been empty since the collapse of Millennium tourist attraction Ceramica.