A further advice day is to be held for Cumbrian shipyard workers – as the number of people seeking compensation in the Barrow area passes 100.  And with a clear need for hearing advice being shown by workers in shipbuilding and heavy industry across the UK, industrial deafness compensation experts Attwood Solicitors are planning to extend their campaign across Northern …

Captain Edward Smith A very special Titanic Taste Test will take place on Wednesday, 2 November, as work begins to create an annual tribute to Stoke-on-Trent born sea captain, Edward Smith. The Lord Mayor’s office at Stoke-on-Trent City Council, working with partners including Burslem based Titanic Brewery are planning a Gala dinner to mark 100 years since Captain Smith bravely …

Love it or hate it, facial hair is going to be BIG this November. November has become Movember and every where you look you will see celebrities to city gents sporting the start of a moustache above their top lip – which Stokie can forget central defender Robert Huth’s magnificent muzzie in Movember 2010? The idea is to raise awareness …

Older residents at Bradeley Village, Stoke-on-Trent, are proving you are never too old to start in business. Staffordshire Housing Association asked apartment owners and tenants to come out of retirement and run the village shop, café and other facilities as a business. And the scheme has been a great success, clocking up regular profits to spend on activities and trips …

Plans to mark the centenary of the RMS Titanic disaster and the death of the ship’s Stoke-on-Trent born captain were revealed at a meeting of Stoke-on-Trent City Council yesterday (20 October, 2011). The Lord Mayor’s Office in Stoke-on-Trent is working with Titanic Brewery on a three day festival including a dinner which will recreate parts of the first class menu …