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POTTERY giant Denby is aiming to put another Stoke-on-Trent pottery brand "back where it belongs" after boosting sales at one of the city's most iconic companies. The firm bought Stoke-on-trent based heritage firm Burgess, Dorling & Leigh – maker of the famous blue and white Burleigh ware – in 2010 and has now revealed that sales there rose by 16 per cent last year. It also acquired Hartley Greens in Longton at the end of 2011 and is now aiming to achieve similar growth levels there.
Both brands have been showcased at two major trade fairs this month.
Stoke-on-Trent & North Staffordshire
The AWARD-WINNING Stoke-on-Trent tourist attraction at Trentham is re-launching its popular hot air balloon rides, just in time for the summer. Prices for a trip, offering stunning views of North Staffordshire, start at £99. 
The first vehicle tyres have rolled off a new production line at Stoke-on-Trent's Michelin factory. Michelin has made a £20m investment in the two production lines. The plant has 1,000 workers, and is the UK headquarters for the company. A RESIDENTS' association has been awarded a grant to improve part of a wildlife park. Hartshill and Harpfields Residents' Association has been awarded a £32,000 Community Spaces grant to restore one of the three Convent Pools in Hartshill Park, a semi-wild hillside park in Stoke-on-Trent. North Staffordshire-based JCB have sealed a £60 million contract for 1,000 machines with the Brazillian government, while Stafford-based engineering firm Alstom have revealed a 14 per cent year-on-year increase in orders. A new report finds that 73 per cent of members of the West Midlands and North West grouping of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) National Barometer survey, expect further business growth by the end of the year. The quarterly report said 46 per cent of companies plan to take on staff in the coming year, and 62 per cent have seen turnover rise in the last six months. STOKE-ON-TRENT POTTERY firm Wade Ceramics has won permission to expand and create more jobs. The ceramic producer has seen a massive increase in orders since relocating from Burslem to a £7.5 million purpose-built factory, in nearby Etruria, 16 months ago. The company, which employs more than 200 people, has now been given approval to build an 244.5-square metre extension at its current site in Bessemer Drive to help keep up with demand.
TABLEWARE produced in Stoke-on-Trent will be used to serve up food to Olympic VIPs after the completion of a six-figure contract. Dudson has worked with caterer Sodexo Prestige to design tableware for a number of high-profile events, including the VIP hospitality areas of the Olympic Games later this year. Managers of a North Staffordshire theatre are celebrating after it secured a £150,000 boost. The New Vic, in Basford, has successfully applied for the cash from the Arts Council England's Catalyst Arts scheme. The money will be used to help the New Vic's ongoing fund-raising efforts. Last month over 300 unemployed people got jobs in Stoke-on-Trent. The latest unemployment figures for the city show 8,368 people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) in April 2012, down from 8,685 in March 2012. The West Midlands region as a whole has also seen a fall, of 19,000 over the last three months.
A MILLION sunflowers will soon transform a patch of abandoned wasteland in Stoke-on-Trent. Three-and-a-half acres of derelict land next to Emma Bridgewater's factory off Lichfield Street, Hanley, is being covered with seeds, which should be blooming by the end of next month. The site formerly contained homes, compulsory purchased and then bulldozed under the failed Renew North Staffordshire housing clearance programme. The sunflower planting is a private scheme, sponsored by the Emma Bridgewater ceramics factory. 
Hundreds of rare Roman silver coins have been discovered by a metal detectorist near Stoke-on-Trent. Dad-of-three Scott Heeley found 211 silver Roman coins and 69 fragments dating back to the first and second centuries on farmland.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE excavator manufacturer JCB has secured one of the biggest single tenders in its history, with an export order for more than 1,000 machines worth over £60 million. Stoke-on-Trent’s youngest ever councillor says he wants more young people to be involved in politics. Cllr Jack Brereton (Conservative), 20, won the biggest majority in the ward of Baddeley, Milton and Norton in May last year. 
HUNDREDS of spy cameras are to be installed on roads in Staffordshire, in a multi-million pound bid to slash crime. The cameras record drivers' registration numbers and can be used to catch criminals or target motorists with no tax or insurance. |
HUNDREDS of new jobs are being created at JCB to help meet rising global orders. The world-beating North Staffordshire digger-maker is taking on up to 350 new agency workers at its UK factories. 
Steelite International has posted record sales as it prepares to expand its manufacturing base in Stoke-on-Trent. For the second year running, the manufacturer has exceeded its turnover record, with a 9.4% increase and profits of nearly £8m. 
A £20m investment to improve manufacturing facilities at Michelin’s new state-of-the-art Remix truck tyre retreading operation at Stoke-on-Trent has been given the seal of approval by Business Minister Mark Prisk. A CELEBRATION to mark the completion of a £2 million overhaul at a city park will take place next month. Over the past few years work has included the restoration of the pavilion, the Victorian terrace and two fountains, which had not been in use since 1895. Funding for the project has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund Park for People Programme. The event will take place on Saturday, 23rd June 2012. Historic buildings in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, are set to get a new lease of life thanks to a £1 million grant. The money will help bring some of the one in five vacant properties in the town’s conservation area back into use. Burslem is only the second UK location to receive three successive rounds of Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) cash, taking the total generated for the area’s redevelopment to more than £4 million. 
The Stoke-on-Trent man who netted nearly £1.5 billion from selling his mobile phone empire in 2006 is so rich that he is estimated to be the biggest taxpayer in Britain, handing £165 million to the Revenue in the past four years. His Caudwell Children charity has provided services worth more than £13 million to thousands of children with more than 350 different medical conditions. A NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE MP has been elected to a key post representing more than 200 Conservative backbench MPs in Parliament. Karen Bradley is the new joint secretary of the influential 1922 Committee, which keeps Government ministers in touch with the views and concerns of the rest of the Conservative party in Parliament. As part of her role, she will be involved in shaping party policies and will have meetings with Prime Minister David Cameron. Mrs Bradley lives in Leek in North Staffordshire. MIDDLEPORT GRANDMOTHER Norma Sey has won her battle to stay in her home of 38 years after proving the property is structurally safe. Mrs Sey refused to move out of the house where she raised her family, after she was served with a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) by Stoke-on-Trent City Council last year. Hundreds of similarly safe homes have been demolished in Middleport since 2006. "Structural issues" was one of spurious excuses that was widely used by the Council's failed Renew North Staffordshire organisation, in order to compulsory purchase homes in the area. 
A 9ft high sculpture of an Anglo-Saxon warrior is being unveiled at a museum later today in Stoke-on-Trent, at a VIP reception. The statue wears replicas of some of the 3,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon treasure called the Staffordshire Hoard - recently found in Staffordshire, and now jointly owned by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. 
The West Midlands is still England’s fastest growing region, even outstripping London, figures published today reveal. According to the Lloyds TSB regional purchasing managers’ index (PMI), the region’s private sector economy continued to expand in April. The region has also seen a 19,000-strong fall in unemployment over the last three months. 
STOKE-ON-TRENT TEACHER Paul Rogerson has launched a new musical instrument to help improve the lives of disabled and vulnerable children. 
Staffordshire's Leigh Purnell is back from a 15-month long record-breaking journey around the world in a classic London black cab. It has taken him and two friends 450 days - and if it been on a taxi meter it would have cost them £80,000. Instead, they made money, raising £20,000 for the Red Cross. Leigh arrived back in the UK today with 'Hannah' - the weather-beaten, 20-year-old K-registered black cab. |
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