Trentham High School

School children will provide music and song to help celebrate a carol concert and lights switch on event in Shelton. Stoke-on-Trent City Council officers and representatives from RENEW North Staffordshire will also join Signal Radio presenter Doug Wood for an afternoon of ‘Christingle’ festivities from 4pm on Saturday (5 December) which has been organised by Upper Shelton Residents Association, Reverend Keith Haywood and the Shelton Ward Councillors.

By Matt Taylor Following their long-fought battle against plans to demolish their school, the governors of Trentham High School are now applying to become a Foundation Trust. When parents, teachers and governors managed to save the community school from closure, they vowed to make it the start of something which would make Trentham a top-achieving school, having been brought much closer together through the fight to keep the doors open to future pupils. On that triumphant day back in Ap

By Pits'n'Pots Team in association with Stoke's number one film company, Junction 15 Video Productions. [caption id="attachment_858" align="alignright" width="90" caption="Roger Ibbs"][/caption] An 'In Conversation' Special - Tony Walley Speaks exclusively to Roger Ibbs We are pleased to introduce the first of our video interviews produced with Junction15 video productions. You will hear about the effect that the period after being arerested in relation to the council corrup

Audio Interview Now Online! By Tony Walley & Mike Rawlins. On Friday Mike Rawlins and myself went to interview Council Leader Ross Irving, it is a little over 3 months since Ross was voted in to the position of Council Leader.  We wanted to ask him  how he thought things were going and what the future holds. [caption id="attachment_7205" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Council Leader Ross Irving being interviewed by Tony Walley"][/caption] Since the council chamber recon

Comment By Tony Walley. [caption id="attachment_1818" align="alignleft" width="75" caption="Tony Walley"][/caption] Well let me start by saying something that some of you will not like! I like Ross Irving and I think if he is given a chance, he will make a very good council leader. I also like and have respect for Roger Ibbs and I'm sorry that he isn't able to be considered for a cabinet position. Now, that may go down as well as a fart in a space suit to the people of Trentham, b

By Tony Walley & Mike Rawlins. [caption id="attachment_5073" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Tony Walley & Peter Kent-Baguley in conversation"][/caption] The final interview of this particular series, today we are 'In Conversation' with Peter Kent-Baguley. PKB is widely recognised as one of the best orators in the council chamber. Peter has been described by many as a 'peoples champion' of a councillor. He is a former Labour Group Deputy Leader and he held that pos

By Tony Walley & Mike Rawlins. [caption id="attachment_535" align="alignleft" width="90" caption="Ross Irving - Conservative & Independent Alliance Leader."][/caption] In the penultimate leadership interview of this series we have pleasure in bringing you this conversation with Councillor Ross Irving. Ross has been a serving city councillor for 35 years and has served the residents of Trentham and Hanford for a good proportion of those years. Ross is described by many as bein

By Matt Taylor After Trentham High School won the right to keep its doors open for the forseeable future, there was a tiny fly in the ointment when it came to the celebrations. When MP Rob Flello and Schools Minister Jim Knight announced the support of the Government for an extra high school for Stoke-on-Trent, and made it known that that school should be Trentham, everyone involved was ecstatic, and I was proud that, for once, people power did seem to make a difference. But then, when

By Nicky [caption id="attachment_3656" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Strasbourg cyclists"][/caption] The Strasbourg Seven+ from the Trentham Action Group will be cycling from Westminster to Strasbourg. This trip was originally a follow on to the Walk to Westminster, as part of the Save Trentham High campaign.  The idea was, after presenting the petition to Westminster with apparently no success, to take the petition on to the European parliament Strasbourg. But after Tre

[caption id="attachment_1818" align="alignleft" width="75" caption="Tony Walley"][/caption] Comment By Tony Walley. I want to start with some good news this week for a change. I interviewed the Member of Parliament for Stoke Central Mark Fisher on the radio yesterday.