Office staff with be swapping their suits for overalls as they work to spruce up the neighbourhood where they work. Staffordshire Housing Association’s Good Neighbours campaign will see Chief Executive Diane Lea and her staff litter picking and tidying the streets around the West End and Boothen areas of Stoke on Friday, 5 August. Skips will also be provided by …

Residents from three older person’s housing developments are gearing up for the Olympics with a marathon relay. The marathon, organised by Staffordshire Housing Association, will begin on Wednesday, 27 July – exactly a year to the day to the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Staffordshire Housing Association is encouraging residents at the West End, Rowan and Bradeley villages …

A state of the art housing complex has been recognised in a national quality awards scheme. G B Building Solutions, won recognition for their work on behalf of Staffordshire Housing Association (SHA) on the £18 million West End Village project, Stoke. The West End Village development has been recognised in the National House Building Council (NHBC) Quality Awards. Just 400 …

Churnet Valley Rail Ale Trail Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2011 (with special sausage and mash supper dining train on Friday 22 July). A special partnership has been forged in Staffordshire’s Rhineland to create the world’s longest beer festival. Churnet Valley Railway has joined forces with Titanic Brewery and the pubs of the valley to launch a very different …

Schools closed and services run by the Government and councils were hit during today’s first day of action by public sector trade unionists. And the strike gave many private sector bosses a major headache as staff took time off to look after children who were given a day off school. Now Sarah Pugh, a partner in Midlands employment law firm …

Work has started on a showroom extension which will see a luxury bathroom store double in size. S&S Luxury Bathrooms, of High Street, Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, has embarked on ambitious plans to create additional sales and display space and to expand its range to include cutting edge, energy saving, solar photo voltaic heating systems. Company Director, Mark Curran, said: “We need …

Olympic silver medalist Phil Brown will be handing out the “medals” as he joins pupils and staff from Newcastle-under-Lyme School.  Birmingham born Brown completed an unusual treble of silver medals with the Great Britain 4 x 400 metre relay team at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Chamionships in the 1980s.  He is now a Regional Director for the …

A specialist car remapping business has gone from 0 to 60 in just three years.  Black Code was launched by Staffordshire businessman Oliver Billson, has shown rapid growth and now has 60 outlets across the UK.  The business, based at Baswich, Stafford, has quickly become recognised as the premier name in the vehicle re-mapping and tuning industry.  Black Code offers …