Customers will drink to their local’s favourite charities during a Cider Festival across five Staffordshire pubs. Licensees at the Titanic Brewery pubs in Stoke-on-Trent, Stone and Stafford have each chosen a favourite charity to support during the festival this weekend. Customers will be asked to support the good causes and the Potteries based brewery has agreed to match the money raised. Landlady Cherryl Poppit …
PREPARE EARLY TO AVOID FROSTY EMPLOYEE RELATIONS THIS WINTER
Britain is bracing itself for a cold winter – with the Met Office warning of bad weather as early as the second part of this week. And businesses should be planning ahead to avoid potential conflict with staff when the snow forces people to take time off, according to West Midlands employment lawyer Sarah Pugh. Sarah, a partner at Dudley …
GARAGE CRACKS THE CODE TO PUT KENT MOTORISTS ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS
A Kent garage is helping motorists to achieve the ultimate driving experience. Old Forge Garage of Orpington has become a Black Code vehicle re-mapping specialist after purchasing the brand’s franchise for Kent. The Black Code system offers motorists the chance to increase the engine power and torque of their car by 35 per cent. At the same time, drivers can achieve up to …
Barnes Blinds offers free checks in safety drive
Families are to be offered free safety checks to help allay fears over the safety of window blinds. Long established window blind retailer and manufacturer, Barnes Blinds, has launched a drive to make window blinds safer. Several children have been injured after getting caught up in window blind cords and two youngsters died in incidents in southern Staffordshire in early …
STAFFORDSHIRE COMPUTING EXPERT LIZ HELPS CHAMPION UK INTERNET SAFETY
A Staffordshire computing expert is helping to spearhead a UK wide campaign aimed at keeping people safe on line. Liz Thursfield, former Associate Dean of Computing, Engineering and Technology at StaffordshireUniversity, is heading the social media campaign for Get Safe Online. Liz, of Stafford, runs social media consultancy Ariadne’s Thread which helps many public and private sector organisations to use tools such as Twitter, Linkedin …
SCHOOL INVITES VETERANS TO ATTEND ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
Veterans are being invited to join pupils at a Remembrance service at Newcastle-under-Lyme School. The school holds an annual Remembrance Service and Parade on 11 November each year. Current and past pupils have been joined in recent years by members of the town’s Normandy Veterans Association for the service. However, earlier this year, the Newcastle-under-Lyme Branch of the Association was disbanded due …
Award winning roofing company plans a greener future
An award winning North Staffordshire roofing company is using a cash boost to branch out into green technology. Rydale Roofing took joint first place in the recent Newcastle-under-Lyme Business Boost competition. Now the Keele Road based company is to offer the latest photo-voltaic roofing panels to customers for the first time. Rydale Roofing was set up by Mick and Julie Mirowski in 1993. It …