Six of the best giant sweet treats

Christmas is coming faster than you can say Jingle Bells and as the festive season is associated with food, we've gathered some of the best sweet treats out there.


On red alert

Avoiding red has always been the golden rule of red carpet dressing. Until now.


Road closed by sewer collapse

A sewer has collapsed in Stafford town centre, sparking repairs which will take a fortnight to complete and hitting traders in the pocket.


Police plea to repair shops over hit-and-run incident

Mechanics at repair shops could hold the key in the hunt for a car involved in a hit and run incident near the M6 in Walsall in which a 30-year-old woman was left with head injuries, police said today.


Burial fees to rise by 13pc

Burial fees at cemeteries in Staffordshire which have climbed rapidly in the last four years will jump a further 13 per cent from January, under plans revealed today.


Castings in profits joy

Brownhills manufacturing success story Castings has seen profits double and sales jump by nearly a third in the last six months as it prepares to complete a £5 million expansion project in the new year.


Robbers used pepper spray on car owner

Two teenagers have been locked up for a total of 12 and a half years after spraying a woman in the face with pepper spray and trying to steal her car.


The Public makes £58k but costs hit £2.29m

Controversial Arts centre The Public made £58,801 in the past year – at the same time as the amount of taxpayers’ cash put into the venue nearly doubled to £2.29 million.


More police urged to make fewer arrests

A radical shake-up of policing in Staffordshire in which  officers are encouraged to consider “alternatives to arrest” will be rolled out in the south of the county from January, it emerged today.


Julie Bailey death comment on video condemned

A Labour Party video in which hope was expressed that leading Stafford Hospital campaigner Julie Bailey would die was today condemned as “totally unacceptable” – as a Staffordshire MP said he was considering taking up the matter with police.

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