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News commentary by Matt Taylor A wealthy restaurant owner, Qi Xing Weng, has been convicted of conspiracy to produce cannabis in the latest of the successes of Staffordshire Police's ongoing push against drugs in the city, Operation Nemesis. The 29-year-old businessman was found to have numerous large-scale cannabis factories in the city, and was also behind a plantation in Birmingham from which 1,400 marijuana weeds were confiscated last year in a raid on a former benefits office.

Source: Potteye Blog On Thursday 12 November 2009 at 10am, at Stoke-on-Trent City Council, councillors will be discussing the farce of the Interim Chief Executive and the payoff made by the Human Resources Committee. This item is to be discussed because a number of councillors, quite rightly, called for the item to be discussed under the motion: “This Council deplores the lack of information from the Council Leader regarding the absence of the Interim Chief Executive following the appoi

By Matt Taylor Last night was one of those nights when I started to lose faith in the belief that, generally, pretty much everyone is, at heart, a good person. I've seen the 'real cops' TV shows in which drunken hedonists get wrestled to the ground by officers who don their riot gear ready for a night at work on the town.

[caption id="attachment_1818" align="alignright" width="75" caption="Comment By - Tony Walley"][/caption] By Tony Walley. It's a bit more Abba than Martin Luther really....... A few weeks ago I had a coffee with a well known much respected member of the Stoke-on-Trent community. We were talking about this site and the national recognition that it is getting and how that all came about.

By Matt Taylor It's all over the papers today: Balls releases his all-new strategy on sex-education, and the Tory rags have already set tongues wagging in 'respectable' middle-class households everywhere disgusted at the prospect that their innoccent teeny somethings could be defiled by such corrupt obscenity. And of course the whole thing has been sensationally exaggerated, by using the fact that, under new plans, primary school-aged pupils will learn basics about parts of the body, to ra

Source: Potteye Blog. by Mike Barnes. Cllr Joan Bell recently returned to the Labour Group and made the following quote: "I was reluctant to leave the Labour Group, but was unable to work with the leader elected at the annual general meeting in June.” During the time of Mrs Bell’s absence I remained silent about the matter but now feel I must set the record straight. Firstly, let me say that Joan Bell has become an excellent ward councillor within the Longton South Ward.

By Matt Taylor Over a dozen bonfires around the city have been destroyed in a blitz against 'unlicensed' celebrations.

Source: Longton North Blog/Tom Reynolds. [caption id="attachment_1198" align="alignleft" width="90" caption="Cllr Tom Reynolds"][/caption] I’ve submitted the following questions to the Leader for the next ordinary Full Council. It will be interesting what Cllr Irving has to say on each of the issues. 1.

By Matt Taylor It is pretty blatantly obvious. Today's Sentinel quotes elderly patients' gripes over poor, tasteless food being resigned to the waste disposal as nearby takeaways count the profits. And only a matter of weeks ago, there were reports of Dominos delivering pizzas to UHNS to calm the hunger of disgruntled patients. But it's nothing new. Ever since Sodexo took over the contract to cater for the hospital last year, there have been problems with quality of the food.