Cabinet Member

Thrill seekers can experience the exhilaration of cycling with no brakes at a Cycle Speedway event. The event, taking place on Monday (August 2) is part of the city’s Festival of Sport and is aimed at children aged seven to 14. It will be the first of three Extreme Cycling classes taking place in August. The two hour class will take place between 6:30pm and 8:30pm at the Etruria Park track.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council boasts three Green Flag sites across the city in three of its cemeteries. Carmountside Cemetery and Crematorium has been awarded a Green Flag for the third year running. Fenton and Burslem Cemeteries have retained their Green Flags for the second consecutive year.

Residents in Great Chell, Fegg Hayes and Chell Heath will decide on how over £1m will be spent in their area. The money comes from a grant from the Big Lottery Fund, Big Local, after 12 months of work to secure the funding by Stoke-on-Trent’s Local Strategic Partnership. The criteria for the award was that the natural area had to have a population of between 3,000- 10,000 people, in an area of disadvantage and deprivation where a large proportion of the population were earning £15,000 or less pe

The report to cabinet presents the year end capital outturn for our capital programme. This covers capital investment by the city council and those funded from other sources such as £35m for the RENEW programme. Councillor Mohammed Pervez Leader for the city council explained, [quote]“This has been a very challenging financial year for the council and it is likely to get even more challenging in the next two to three years.

Stoke-on-Trent city council will ask its cabinet on 29 July to consider a new level of fixed penalty notice fines as well as introducing a consent scheme for printed materials. These changes are necessary as a deterrent against anti-social behaviour and to help people feel safer in their communities.

The premiere of the first UK film about Northern Soul is set to be aired in Stoke-on-Trent, and music fans are being given the chance to party all night to celebrate. SoulBoy, which pays tribute to the Wigan Casino, a legendary music club in the 1970s, will be shown in the King’s Hall on Saturday 21 August – a full week before it is released in cinemas nationwide. And the film, which was shot almost entirely Stoke-on-Trent, will be followed by an all night party featuring the best of Northern So

Westfield Children’s Centre and Nursery School in Longton has transformed their existing outdoor play facilities into a new natural play area. The play space, designed and built by local environmental and regeneration charity Groundwork Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire is made of all naturally occurring materials and includes features such as play hills, tunnels, dens as well as state-of-the-art sensory equipment.

Four events, including a torchlight night, at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery form part of London’s 2012 Open Weekend (23 – 25 July 2010). The events in the city are part of a series of activities across the country which will take place to celebrate the final two years until the London 2012 Olympic Games and to provide access to excellence in the arts, culture and sport.

Improvements to one of the city’s major road junctions is set to start next week as part of building work for the new sixth form college. The work to the traffic signals at the junction of Leek Road, Station Road and Glebe Street will start on Monday July 19 and will last for approximately six weeks. The work will involve minor alterations to pedestrian islands and the traffic signals to help accommodate the new sixth form college, which is due to open in September 2010.