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A new team who will work to attract inward investment and new jobs to North Staffordshire is launched today at MIPIM, the world’s leading property exhibition. The marketing, investment and enterprise team in the North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership has been reorganised to create eight new posts. These officers will focus on attracting new business and helping existing businesses to grow.

A selection of 59 items from the Staffordshire Hoard will be displayed at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, including a delicate filigree gold horse’s head, a gold strip with a biblical inscription and a crumpled gold plaque with ornate fish and bird heads. At the same time a similar number of items will be on display at Birmingham Museum, including helmet fragments with animal decorations and warriors.

Visitors are being dared to confront Gilbert Savage, the Tudor executioner, during his visit to Ford Green Hall this Thursday (February 18).   Guests will be able to hear grisly tales of crime during the Tudor and Elizabethan periods and the extremely harsh punishments which often followed for many, including two of Henry VIII’s wives.

A dazzlingly detailed horse’s head will be one of a number of new items from The Staffordshire Hoard to be exhibited for the first time ever next month.  

West Midlands Regional Minister Ian Austin has praised the valuation process over the £3,285,000 Staffordshire Hoard. Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Birmingham City Council are to raise funds to jointly acquire the Anglo-Saxon gold and silver, which was yesterday announced as the most valuable treasure find ever made. The two authorities approved the valuation – made by the Treasure Valuation Committee at the British Museum – and finder Terry Herbert and landowner Fred Johnson also agreed the v

Comment by Nicky Davis It’s a busy weekend.  As well as the many things which need to be done and the habitual swim and a quick visit to the stand for the community school action group (well done to them) at the Abbey Hulton carnival, I decided to go on a couple of the ‘six towns tours’ mentioned on pits’n’pots.  Because of work I could only go on these history walks for Fenton and Longton, the weekend ones. Now history is not my strong point and I issue a disclaimer as there may be inaccu

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. [caption id="attachment_1962" align="alignleft" width="103" caption="2010 Elections"][/caption] Guided tours of Stoke-on-Trent’s six towns will be available this September as part of the Heritage Open Days. Stoke on Trent City Council has teamed up with Urban Vision North Staffordshire and the Potteries Heritage Society to provide residents and visitors with the ‘Six Towns Tours’.

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. The first people to complete a pioneering project to raise career aspirations will graduate at a ceremony this Thursday (July 23) at Vale Park. The nine successful graduates of the creative arts programme will be recognised at the event for completing the six week course, named Tyro, and will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their new skills. The scheme is aimed at helping people back into work by giving them confidence through working

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. Children will have the opportunity to try their hand at creating their own illustrations this month at two of the city’s libraries. Author and illustrator Lynne Chapman will be at The Fantasy Story Fest at the City Centre Library and Stoke Library on Saturday (July 25) helping children aged between seven and 14 with their drawing skills.

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter Stoke-on-Trent stories are to be aired as part of a moving project putting community voices on the silver screen. Ward Stories is an innovative project giving community groups the chance to work with international award winning film-makers to create moving short stories.