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Titanic has become among the first breweries to install cutting edge equipment to chill its beer and provide heat for customers. The Burslem brewer has teamed up with Geo Bar as part of the development of the Sun Inn, Stafford, which opens to the public next Thursday (22 July). The Geo Bar heat recovery system takes excess heat created by pubs’ chilling equipment – which is usually expelled outside the building and lost - and uses it to heat water, either for direct use or in the heating system.

VIDEO INTERVIEW NOW ONLINE Yesterday (April 16th) saw Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action arrive in Hanley to meet with local youths and the 3 Conservative PPCs at Stoke on Trent YMCA. The meeting was held in the modern "Sky Room" at the top of the building. The Conservative group listened to the concerns of the young people who are were all current and former tenants of the YMCA.

We here at PitsnPots are proud to be local "Citizen Journalists" who work hard to bring the exclusive stories to our community. Following the E.D.L protest in Hanley on Saturday 23rd January 2010. We wanted to speak with the leader of the E.D.L, Tommy Robinson so that you could hear from his own mouth just what the E.D.L are all about and what their aims are/were. Listen to the Interview and make up your own mind.

Two men have been arrested by police following raids on separate addresses in Longton. Officers from Longton Neighbourhood Policing Unit (NPU) executed the warrants under the Misuse of Drugs Act. A 43-year-old man was arrested at an address in Rothesey Road, Longton, yesterday afternoon (thurs) after officers seized a quantity of amphetamine and cannabis vegetation.

Officers executed warrants under the Misuse of Drugs Act at two addresses in the city today (16 December) under Operation Nemesis, following information from local residents and two men were arrested. Officers recovered drugs from an address in Williamson Street, Tunstall. Meanwhile a warrant was executed in Dartmouth Street, Burslem where several plants, believed to be cannabis plants, were recovered.

News commentary by Matt Taylor A wealthy restaurant owner, Qi Xing Weng, has been convicted of conspiracy to produce cannabis in the latest of the successes of Staffordshire Police's ongoing push against drugs in the city, Operation Nemesis. The 29-year-old businessman was found to have numerous large-scale cannabis factories in the city, and was also behind a plantation in Birmingham from which 1,400 marijuana weeds were confiscated last year in a raid on a former benefits office.

By Tony Walley Explosive PKB & Salih Audio Now Online! Today I attended a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee and in a kind of sad way, I really enjoyed it. It was great to see the scrutiny process in full swing. The meeting was excellently chaired by Cllr Mark Davis and there were telling contributions for Cllr Paul Shotton, Cllr Mick Salih, Cllr Peter Kent-Baguley, Mike Coleman & Cllr Tom Reynolds.

Source: Potteye Blog On Thursday 12 November 2009 at 10am, at Stoke-on-Trent City Council, councillors will be discussing the farce of the Interim Chief Executive and the payoff made by the Human Resources Committee. This item is to be discussed because a number of councillors, quite rightly, called for the item to be discussed under the motion: “This Council deplores the lack of information from the Council Leader regarding the absence of the Interim Chief Executive following the appoi

Source: Politics.co.uk “As a child, I used to visit the local Dr Barnardo’s home with my parents. That is where I first came across thalidomide: the home was looking after a baby with no arms or legs,” Staffordshire Moorlands Labour MP Charlotte Atkins said during a debate on thalidomide. “That image has stayed with me for more than 40 years.