Long winter evenings are a perfect time for the telling of ghost stories, and Alsager Community Theatre has a real treat for their audiences in November when it stages a production of The Turn of the Screw by Jack Neary, adapted from the story written by Henry James and first published in 1898. [Read more…]
The Turn of the Screw
October 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Street soccer is back
July 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Following the success of the England team at the Women’s World Cup we’re delighted to announce that the hugely popular Street Soccer project is back for a fourth summer of football as part of the Space scheme, co-ordinated by Staffordshire Police and partners.
Young people aged 8-18 will again be able to take part in pop-up football sessions at recreation grounds across the Staffordshire Moorlands, thanks to a partnership between Your Moorlands, Leek Town FC, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and Staffordshire Police.
This year’s programme started last week and runs every week night until the end of the summer. Football sessions will be led by Leek Town coaches at the following locations from 7pm to 8pm [Read more…]
Kidsgrove Fire Station not in the line of fire
July 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The current level of fire cover at Kidsgrove is to be maintained following a review.
The future of the Kidsgrove Community Fire Station in Lower Ash Road came under threat as the Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service reviewed their operations in order to try and save £1.7 million for the next financial year. The need to meet financial challenges due to cuts in funding and a decrease in demand (over the past 5 years fire calls in the Kidsgrove area have fallen from 383 to 85 per year) led to the review of how the Fire Service combines their prevention, protection and response activities. [Read more…]
People Power secures bowling club
July 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Clough Hall Bowling Club has been awarded funding to install security measures to prevent anti-social behaviour and damage to the premises.
The Bowling Club is to be made more secure thanks to a £2000 grant from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund. They have suffered from disruption at the club in the past including an arson attack which damaged the pavillion and have frequent problems with youths breaking in to play football and drink on the site. The money will be used to install cameras and follows a £10,000 lottery grant three years ago, which was used to put in new toilets and a six-foot spiked fence. [Read more…]
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Upgrading the canals
July 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Jon Honeysett MBE outlined the need for co-ordinating North Staffordshire’s canal projects at a recent Clough Hall Residents Association meeting.
Canal upgrading projects should form a wider Transport Manifesto as promoted by the North Staffs Pensioners Convention, based in Hanley, he suggested. At the conclusion of the talk, the Residents Association agreed to support the aims of the Pensioners Convention, which included possible future provision of two Tourism Day Boats, based at Etruria, for use between Kidsgrove and Stone, by Industrial Archeaology tourists and local community groups alike [Read more…]
Making Space in Kidsgrove
July 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Young people can enjoy unlimited use of Borough Council leisure services at a reduced cost during the summer holidays as part of the resurrected Space Programme.
Space was originally an activities scheme led by Staffordshire Police during the 80s and 90s aimed at engaging with young people. The new version of Space – co-ordinated by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner – has similar objectives and is aimed at 11 to 17-year-olds. [Read more…]
Football Fun about to Kick Off
July 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Visits to premiership football grounds feature in a new football development programme.
Youngsters will be taken on trips to Stoke City’s Britannia Stadium and Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium as part of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council’s summer coaching scheme. The five-day courses, designed for boys and girls of all abilities between the ages of five and 13, also teach basic skills such as passing, dribbling, shooting, attacking and defending. A course is available at Kidsgrove Sports Centre from 10 to 14 August. Other sessions take place every weekday, between 10am and 4pm, at Roe Lane playing fields, Clayton, from 20 to 24 July, 27 to 31 July, 3 to 7 August and 17 to 21 August. Places cost £50 per child. The borough council’s football development programme has FA Charter Standard status, which means it meets best practice standards of coaching, administration and child protection. For more information, contact Tom Sherratt, Football Development Officer, on 01782 742575, 07768 538005, e-mail tom.sherratt@newcastle-staffs.gov.uk or visit www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk/football.
Town Hall funding leads to new police enquiries
July 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council has agreed to invest more than £300,000 on Biddulph Town Hall following complaints about conditions of the venue.
Biddulph Town Hall is owned and managed by Staffordshire Moorlands DC and is used as a Council Chamber; for public functions, community events and activities; and is a working town hall with office accomodation, which includes the police. In 2014 the police notified SMDC that their current office accomodation within Biddulph Town Hall was not fit for purpose which led to council officials examining the building to come up with better designs to maximize the potential of the Town Hall and to retain the police as tenants. [Read more…]