Farmers celebrate U-turn on wholesale milk prices
DAIRY farmers in the region are celebrating after winning their fight to have controversial price cuts scrapped. Milk processors announced a lastminute U-turn on plans to introduce cuts to the amount of
View ArticlePolice delighted as crime continues to plummet
THERE have been 1,500 fewer crimes reported in Staffordshire during the past four months, new figures have revealed. Offences dropped by 9.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2012-13 (April 1 to June 30),
View Article‘How can my children afford to go to Tamworth on a bus? They need to sort it...
A FORMER Margaret Stanhope Centre patient has backed calls for its operators to spell out details of a transport service they promised to introduce to meet the units closure conditions. Clifford Whetton
View ArticleOverwhelming majority reject market proposals
A SURVEY of almost 200 people on the proposed regeneration of Burtons Market Hall found only SEVEN were in favour, councillors have claimed. Members of the opposition Labour group on East Staffordshire
View Article‘I am proof that Jonjo can get through this’
JONJO Finnegan is one of a long list of boxers injured while competing in a sport they so clearly love. As the Newhall boxer lies in a medically induced coma after suffering a bleed to his brain during
View ArticleTeenager ‘breached order to avoid a life of crime’
AN 18-year-old has admitted failing to report for probation service appointments and told a court it was to avoid being lured into a life of crime by his mothers jailbird lover. Kyle Taylor, of...
View ArticleVandals cause closure of changing facilities
CHANGING room facilities have been closed after its roof was vandalised damage likely to cost a parish council thousands of pounds in repairs. Tutbury Parish Council clerk Steve Smith informed members
View ArticleHospital is facing ‘significant risks’
HOSPITAL bosses are facing significant risks as they battle to save 19 million in two years, their finance director has warned. Tony Waite, a board member of Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
View ArticleD-day for A38 safety
THE campaign to improve road safety on the A38 has reached D-Day with experts from the Highways Agency set to tour the accident-plagued road to decide if vital improvements are needed. Burton MP
View ArticleCampaigner uncovers new plan for former colliery site
THE coal giant behind a controversial opencast scheme in the National Forest has applied to explore further fuel reserves bordering the site. Campaigners fear UK Coals bid for an exploratory drilling
View ArticleParents increasingly afraid to let children play outside
CONCERNS have been raised about the fact that children are not spending enough time outdoors. The results of a survey by Play England revealed that fewer children were being allowed to play outside
View ArticleFootball club holds a fund-raising fun day
A JUNIOR football club which has attracted almost 100 members in its first year is to host a fund-raising fun day tomorrow to pay for new kits Riverside Athletic Junior Football Club was born from
View ArticleCouncil leaves Doug cut up over his prized lawn
A PENSIONER claims council gardeners are leaving grass cuttings on his award-winning lawn because cleaning them up is too expensive. Doug Hobbs, 88, of Gresley Woodlands, Church Gresley, says he
View ArticleGames and Jubilee leave smaller firms ‘optimistic’
SMALL businesses in Burton and South Derbyshire are among the most optimistic about the impact this years major events have had on their companies. A study of 500 firms across the East Midlands by...
View ArticleVillage playing field turns into illegal traveller site
TRAVELLERS have set up camp on a private site in Willington after breaking through a locked gate. The itinerants moved onto fields opposite the Willington Sports Bar, in Twyford Road, Willington, on
View ArticleHat-trick of top awards for high-scoring charity
A CHARITY which provides support for vulnerable people across South Derbyshire has received top marks in a national awards scheme securing a hat-trick of top gongs gathered during recent months. Trident
View ArticleBank left red-faced over counterfeit tenor picture
A PAVAROTTI lookalike has slammed a banks refusal to issue him with a personalised card bearing his picture after staff mistook him for the real singer. Colin Miller, of Gough Side, Burton, has
View Article‘Broken man’ in 999 threats to shoot wife
A BURTON man suffering from mental health issues threatened to kill his wife in calls to police, a court has heard. Graeme Haynes, of Price Court, Shobnall, admitted making calls to Staffordshire Police
View ArticleHousing tenants will be assessed for benefit change
BURTONS biggest landlord will carry out a census of all 5,500 tenants in a bid to minimise the impact of radical changes to housing benefits. Trent & Dove Housing, which owns all the former council...
View ArticleArcade staff in robbery ordeal
MASKED raiders who robbed an amusement arcade at knifepoint left two female workers shaken by their ordeal. Two men, both sporting balaclavas, burst in to the New Empire Casino Lounge, in West Street,
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