Some payment dates for universal credit, state pension and other means-tested benefits will hit claimants’ accounts earlier ...

Scores of pension savers born between April 6 1971 and April 5 1973 could be forced to wait an extra two years to access ...

A major milestone has been reached in the £18.2m conversion of a 1960s North Staffordshire shopping centre into flats, bars ...

NHS Trust has developed the £43m facility to improve access to tests and scans, as well as cutting waiting times for patients ...

An uninsured drink-driver has been banned from the roads. Louis Ollier was caught red-handed on Park Road, in Leek, on ...

Many dog breeds are currently banned in the UK, meaning owning, selling, breeding, abandoning or even giving away these ...

An award-winning Staffordshire pub's bid to keep a marquee for outside diners has been rejected by councillors after it was ...

Although Annette describes herself as a light smoker, smoking around 10 cigarettes a day, she said quitting had always felt ...

Junior Tchamadeu still feels he has more to give at Stoke City after penning a new contract. The right-back has extended his ...

Staffordshire Police have secured a dispersal order after receiving 'repeated anti-social behaviour' reports in a North ...

The number of children in care in Stoke-on-Trent is falling again, new figures show. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is currently ...

Plans have been lodged to turn a detached Stoke-on-Trent property into a children's home. The proposed certificate of lawful ...