Aug 29
A Spitfire flypast will mark a city museum’s events to celebrate the marvels of the World War II aircraft and help raise money to restore its own flying ace. The flypast from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will see the Spitfire in the city’s skies and over the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery at …
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Aug 07
OPINION: Mike Barnes Today it has been revealed that a request for information over the botched closure of the Dimensions Splash Pool that the Information Commissioner has ruled that the council can keep the emails and correspondence between the City Council and Dimensions competitor Waterworld secret. A victory for this secretive and inept council is …
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May 23
Labour Cabinet members on Stoke-on-Trent City Council are not allowed to speak except through the City Council Press Office, Mohammed Pervez, leader of the council says in a statement. Sarah Hill former Cabinet member and councillor resigned over Pervez’s part time role and the draconian control over Labour councillor freedom to speak. Labour members who …
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May 10
OPINION by Mike Barnes Is it me? Am I being too cynical or reading too much into this? Doesn’t Mohammed Pervez’s Cabinet shuffle seem a bit, well, odd? After the controversy of the two people sacked by the leader of Stoke-on-Trent, one for dissent over the budget, and one for challenging Pervez over his continued …
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Apr 27
OPINION The recent resignation of Sarah Hill from the City Council on Tuesday, and her revelations about Labour councillors subject to gagging orders, gives further evidence and concern that the political system and the City council are in the grip of a paranoid struggle to control communication and information, and limit the rights of residents …
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Apr 23
Mohammed Pervez has shown his displeasure at his disloyal Cabinet colleagues tonight as Sarah Hill and Debra Gratton lose seats on his Cabinet at tonight’s Labour group meeting. Cllr Sarah Hill stood against Pervez at last week’s leadership vote and failed to turn up at the meeting tonight. Debra Gratton failed to vote in the …
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Mar 07
Stoke-on-Trent City Council representatives are today to be awarded one of the fDi Magazine’s European Cities of the Future Awards in front of some of Europe’s most influential developers and investors. The awards, which are being handed out at the prestigious MIPIM event in Cannes – attended by more than 19,000 property leaders, put Stoke-on-Trent …
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