Titanic Brewery is cutting the price of its beer following the Chancellor’s decision in last week’s Budget to scrap the Beer Duty Escalator. Drinkers at the brewery’s seven pubs – including at the Royal Exchange in Stone – will see a 5p reduction in the price of a pint across all Titanic’s own beer...
A challenge to “Grow a Mo Like Captain Smith” has been made by the Royal Exchange as Titanic Brewery’s pubs join the Movember fundraising effort next month. The brewery is backing the annual fundraising marathon for Cancer Research which sees men growing a moustache for a month to raise money. Titanic is changing the...
It’s only ruddy time for the next Assorted Records music blog! Alright don’t be too excited then… So what’s been happening in our little world since last we spoke? I mentioned in the last blog that the UK’s first pre-festival event was happening in Stafford’s Victoria Park on the 17th August. Well it did...
The ladies’ darts team from The Royal Exchange ran the Race For Life in Stafford last night in memory of former landlady Cherryl Poppit, who died last year.The team – Cheryl’s daughter Laura, Helen Clarke, Mandy Bott, Anneli and Ellie Baxter, Laurelin Keirle, Jackie Warburton and Sazz Warb – were raising money for Cancer...
If you’d like to help out at this year’s Stone Music and Arts Festival then make sure you go along to a meeting at the Crown Hotel on Thursday 5th July. The festival – which is totally run by volunteers – have their last executive meeting on Thursday before the festival kicks off on...
A Stone man has invented a brand new game of balance and chaos – and the first competition will be taking place in the town later this month. Steve Howe says Librium, which is already proving popular in pubs across Staffordshire, is like “the thinking man’s Buckaroo!”. Librium involves placing ‘construction’ cards on to...
Oatcake Day fun will be on the menu at Titanic Brewery’s Royal Exchange pub as the Potteries-based brewery gave its backing to Oatcake Day 2012 on August 8th. Titanic has struck a deal to sponsor the special day in honour of the unique North Staffordshire delicacy. Oatcake Day was founded by DJ Terry Bossons...
The next social media surgery in Stone will take place at the Royal Exchange in March. The free event will run between 7pm and 9pm on Monday 12th March at the Titanic pub in Radford Street. Community groups, charities, clubs and other not-for-profits can get help and advice on using social media tools like...
Members of a women’s football team paid their own tribute to former pub landlady Cherryl Poppit today by running from Newcastle to the Royal Exchange in Stone. Cherryl lost her battle with cancer in October, just weeks after being diagnosed. Royal Exchange barmaid Tracy Leese and fellow players from Holditch Ladies FC, Chesterton, braved horrible...
Barmaid Tracy Leese is leading a team of footballers on a 10-mile jog from Newcastle to Stone in a tribute to Cherryl Poppit, the former landlady of the Royal Exchange who lost her battle with cancer in October. Cherryl passed away just weeks after being diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Now Tracy and fellow players...