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Criminals forced to pay back millions
Published on 14 Apr, 2011 at 11:06 in News | Viewed 326 times | No Comments
Criminals were forced to pay back almost £2.5 million by Staffordshire Police in 2010/11, including £338,000 from a Stone drug dealer who was jailed for six-and-a-half years in June 2010. The force’s Economic Crime Unit obtained 151 confiscation orders totalling £1.973 million and forfeiting £447,424 in cash from offenders between April 2010 and March...
Joe Clarke makes GB under-23 squad
Published on 14 Apr, 2011 at 8:36 in News | Viewed 247 times | No Comments
Stone canoeist Joe Clarke has made the canoe slalom GB under-23 team after impressing at the selection races in Nottingham on 9th and 10th April. Joe, aged 18 and a member of Stafford and Stone Canoe Club, took part in the races at Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham. Here’s Joe’s report for A Little Bit...
Fire service in holiday grass fires appeal
Published on 13 Apr, 2011 at 9:43 in News | Viewed 173 times | No Comments
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service has launched a new campaign to highlight the dangers of deliberately starting grass fires. The service tends to see a dangerous increase in grass fires over the Easter Holidays which is put down to children and teenagers starting fires deliberately. Last Easter there were 215 grass fires across Staffordshire...
Michael to run the London Marathon
Published on 11 Apr, 2011 at 19:32 in News | Viewed 120 times | No Comments
Michael Barnsley from Stone is running the London Marathon on Sunday to raise money for the Anthony Nolan Foundation. Anthony Nolan is a pioneering charity that saves the lives of people with blood cancer. Every day, the charity uses its register to match remarkable donors willing to donate their blood stem cells to people...
Pledge from new police commander
Published on 11 Apr, 2011 at 10:15 in News | Viewed 132 times | No Comments
It’s ‘business as usual’ for neighbourhood officers in Stone, despite major changes to policing across Staffordshire – so says the new commander of the Stafford Borough local policing team (LPT). Nine local policing teams, matching local authority boundaries, came into force earlier this month, with Stone falling under the Stafford Borough team. Each new...
ABB looking for engineering apprentices
Published on 11 Apr, 2011 at 8:32 in News | Viewed 342 times | No Comments
ABB is looking for craft and technical apprentices to join its Stone-based Power Systems Division. The firm says it is seeking talented young people, aged between 16 and 19, to help build Britain’s greener power networks and to support its ambitious growth plans. An ABB spokesman said: “To become an ABB apprentice you’ll need...
Coffee and a chat with local officers
Published on 8 Apr, 2011 at 15:03 in News | Viewed 91 times | No Comments
Local police officers who cover the Stone Town area are available for a coffee and a chat at Costa on the High Street on Tuesday 12th April. It’s a great chance to meet with officers in an informal setting and discuss local concerns and policing issues in the town. Officers will be in Costa...
Stone firms invited to public sector event
Published on 8 Apr, 2011 at 11:12 in Business | Viewed 110 times | No Comments
Businesses in Stone have been invited to meet buyers from the public sector at an event at the County Showground. The half-day gathering aims to encourage links between businesses and public organisations in Stafford Borough and to “dispel the myths” about supplying the public sector. Buyers from the Ministry of Defence, Staffordshire Police, Staffordshire...
£1 travel on the buses for young people
Published on 8 Apr, 2011 at 8:05 in News | Viewed 597 times | 2 Comments
A new travel scheme for young people in Stone and across Staffordshire, thought to be the first in the UK, has been praised by the British Youth Council. Staffordshire County Council’s Your Staffordshire card means people under 21 can catch a local bus at any time for a fare of £1. Jack Rowley, the...
Cyril’s still motoring on!
Published on 6 Apr, 2011 at 20:16 in News | Viewed 159 times | No Comments
Cyril Unsworth, the 75-year-old Stone man who is complete a 2,000-mile motorbike marathon to raise money towards a new community hall at St John’s Church, has written a brilliant update of his adventure so far. Cyril is driving to 25 different St John’s churches in 25 different counties – and is asking sponsors to...
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