Howle Communications supports Fizz Festivals Proms and Prosecco event

PR specialists Howle Communications are helping to add the fizz to a special summer event. Howle Communications has teamed up with Fizz Festivals Ltd to promote the Proms and Prosecco in the Park event at Chetwynd Deer Park, Newport, on 9 September. “Fizz Festivals have organised a unique event and I’m delighted that we are able to offer support,” said …

Proms and Prosecco adds Staffordshire Breakthrough Singer to Concert line-up

Alexandra Jayne wins approval from James Blunt for her “beautiful” voice Up and coming singing star Alexandra Jayne has been added to the exciting line-up for September’s Proms and Prosecco in the Park event at the Chetwynd Deer Park. The classically trained Wheaton Aston-based singer won praise from James Blunt after joining him as support artist on Blunt’s Moon Landing …

Bringing local history to life in Bentilee Heritage Lottery Fund project

Research into the history of their community is helping young people from Stoke-on-Trent to create and perform an arts project, The Living Archives project at Bentilee has been made possible following a successful bid for Heritage Lottery funding by Partners in Creative Learning (PiCL). The summer-long programme is based at the St Stephen’s Community Church Youth Club. Erica Love, of …

Walk this way for a healthy workforce

A major Staffordshire employer is benefitting from a healthier workforce after agreeing to work with Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce to promote workplace wellbeing. The Chamber has three government approved Workplace Wellbeing Charter Assessors who work closely with employers looking to achieve accreditation. The pottery company now promotes a healthy lifestyle, regularly putting on awareness raising sessions, stop smoking support and …

Jo Johnson calls for ‘no fault divorces’ to be introduced.

Local Family Solicitor Jo Johnson is calling for no fault divorces to be introduced after the recent decision in the case of Owens v Owens where the wife was refused a divorce after failing to satisfy the court that her husband had behaved unreasonably in their marriage. “Mrs Owen has since filed an appeal to the Supreme Court which has …

Call for entries as Business Boost 2017 is launched

A unique business awards programme which rewards the potential of businesses across the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is now open for entries. The Business Boost Awards is in its ninth year and has new sponsors and new awards for 2017. Cash prizes are on offer, along with subsidised apprenticeships and membership of Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce. All Business Boost entrants benefit …