BBC Local Live: Stoke & Staffordshire on Monday 14 March 2016

Summary

Updates on Monday 14 March 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Tuesday

Live Reporting

Allen Cook

Picture: Landmark day for new National Memorial Arboretum Remembrance Centrepublished at 14:59 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Staff at the National Memorial Arboretum are preparing for a landmark moment in the building of their new Remembrance Centre.
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Cheshire East residents urged to report suspected child abusepublished at 14:40 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Crewe Chronicle
Cheshire East Council is supporting a national campaign which urges members, external of the public to report child abuse and neglect.
Travel: Crash shuts Crewe Road in Sandbachpublished at 14:31 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
BBC Travel
Crewe Road in Sandbach has been closed in both directions because of an accident involving two cars.
It's between the Park Lane junction and Newhall Avenue.
Your pictures: Branston river and Biddulph sunset from BBC Weather Watcherspublished at 14:23 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Monica Rimmer
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
These spectacular couple of pictures are just some of the many our BBC Weather Watchers have sent us in the last couple of hours.
The first is from PaulS in Branston; the second came from On The Moor in Biddulph - become one yourself by heading to the BBC website and signing up.
Image source, PaulS
Image source, On the moor
Winner claims £1m lottery ticket bought in Newcastle-under-Lymepublished at 14:11 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
We told you earlier about the unclaimed £1m EuroMillions lottery ticket that had been bought in the Newcastle-under-Lyme area - well, you can stop searching now as we're told it's been claimed.
Image source, National Lottery
National Lottery earlier said the ticket related to their draw on 26 February.
Serial thief who went on £10k Stafford crime spreepublished at 13:45 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Express and Star
A serial thief and driving offender has been jailed after stealing nearly £10,000 worth, external of goods from across Staffordshire.
Image source, Express and Star
Thousands wasted as lorry-load of rubbish not recycled due to nappies and foodpublished at 13:27 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Emma Thomas
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
A lorry-load of recycling in Staffordshire was rejected, external - and incinerated instead - because residents had put unwanted rubbish in the load, according to a council.
Image source, Stafford Borough Council
Stafford Borough Council says people are dumping nappies or food in their recycling bins which meant in this case the 18-tonne pile couldn't be recycled.
The authority says it's costing them thousands of pounds and warns that residents' blue bins will not be emptied if there are wrong items in the load.
They say that includes nappies, food, textiles or black bags, external.
This lunchtime in BBC Midlands Today: Build-up to Cheltenham Festivalpublished at 13:08 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
BBC Midlands Today
One of the biggest events in the horse racing calendar, the Cheltenham Festival, gets under way tomorrow.
On BBC Midlands Today this lunchtime we will be seeing if it will be third time lucky for the horse called The New One in the Champion Hurdle race.
We'll hear from his trainer and look at how preparations are going for the festival on BBC One from 13:30.
Football: Port Vale players 'paid for own hotel rooms' before Peterborough gamepublished at 12:53
Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Port Vale manager Rob Page has revealed that some of his players paid for their own hotel rooms ahead of their 3-2 win at Peterborough on Saturday.
Image source, Getty Images
Vale came from two goals down to win the game, meaning they stay within three points of the League One play-off places.
Page says the fact that some funded their own stay shows the character of his team.
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Eight of them decided to pay for themselves and come down and prepare properly. We've got a professional group of players and that's how they conduct themselves and they wanted to give themselves the best chance."
Rob Page, Port Vale manager
News: Disabled boy writes for Prime Minister's help; NHS staff attacks 'unacceptable'; £1m unclaimed lottery ticket bought locallypublished at 12:32 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
The main headlines this afternoon for Staffordshire and Cheshire include:
- A Newcastle-under-Lyme boy has written to the prime minister asking why the NHS won't fund physiotherapy after an operation to treat his cerebral palsy
- Attacks on NHS staff in Staffordshire and Cheshire are unacceptable and need to be sorted out, according to unions
- An unclaimed EuroMillions lottery ticket that could earn the winner £1m was bought in the Newcastle-under-Lyme area, external, it's been revealed
Remembrance event to be held on Bosley explosion anniversarypublished at 12:15 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Ros Chimes
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke
A memorial service is being planned to mark the one-year anniversary since the Bosley wood treatment plant explosion, which killed four people in July.
A memorial service will be held in the village church on 17 July.
An investigation into the explosion is still on-going but, having revisited the area, the impact it's had on the community of Bosley is still felt by many.
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We're hoping this [the remembrance event] will help towards the healing process for everybody. Well, it'll never be a closed thing really, but it might help in that moving on process."
Sylvia Jenkinson, Organiser of weekend anniversary events
Hunt on for £1m unclaimed lottery ticket in Newcastle-under-Lymepublished at 12:01 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
An unclaimed EuroMillions lottery ticket that could earn the winner £1m was bought in the Newcastle-under-Lyme area, external, it's been revealed.
Image source, AFP
The National Lottery says a winner from it's Millionaire Maker draw on 26 February still hasn't claimed their prize.
They say ticket holder has until 24 August to claim or it will instead go to help National Lottery-funded projects across the UK.
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Try checking in the pockets of clothing, in wallets, bags and down the back of the sofa."
National Lottery spokesperson
Your pictures: Wedgwood monument from the air and Stoke charity bikerspublished at 11:44 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
This lovely aerial photograph's come from Duncan Richardson and is, he says, of the Wedgwood Monument on Bignall Hill.
Image source, Duncan Richardson
And Carl Jervis sent this in via the BBC Radio Stoke Facebook page , externalof some of the people taking part in the Star Bikers' annual egg run for charity, held in Stoke-on-Trent over the weekend.
Image source, Carl Jervis
Watch: The afternoon weather for Stoke and Staffordshirepublished at 11:28 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather
Staffordshire and Cheshire's latest weather forecast can also be found on the BBC website.
Staffordshire boy writes to David Cameron about cerebral palsy treatmentpublished at 11:13 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Phil Bowers
BBC Local Live
A Newcastle-under-Lyme boy has written to the prime minister asking why the NHS won't fund the physiotherapy he needs after an operation to treat his cerebral palsy.
Ben Baddeley, 11, from Silverdale, had the operation privately following an £11,000 donation from a mystery benefactor.
His family has told BBC Radio Stoke it costs £2,000 a month for the follow-up physiotherapy treatment.
They're now waiting for a reply from Number 10 which hasn't yet commented. The NHS says treatment for his condition hasn't been routinely funded since 2013.
Leukaemia battle inspires Tamworth school's marathon effortpublished at 10:54 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Tamworth Herald
Youngsters and the headteacher at a Tamworth school have dusted off their running shoes to raise money and support an 11-year-old pupil , externalwho has leukaemia.
Image source, Tamworth Herald
Have your say: Top Gear Cenotaph stunt - are we too easily offended?published at 10:40 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Perry Spiller
Presenter, BBC Radio Stoke
Today I want to know from you if you think we, as a society, are too easily offended?
It's after Chris Evans has today apologised for a Top Gear stunt which was filmed near a London war memorial over the weekend - and led to criticism from a former British military commander.
There's been plenty of reaction to this story on social media but are we too easily offended? I want to know what you think - you can get involved by calling 01782 208008 until 13:00, tweet @BBCRadioStoke, external or email me.
Man seriously hurt in biker crash in Staffordshirepublished at 10:24 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
A man's been seriously hurt after a crash between two motorbikes, external in Staffordshire.
Image source, WMAS
It happened yesterday morning near Swynnerton on the A51.
The motorcyclist, who's in his 30s, had multiple injuries and was treated at the scene before being taken to the Royal Stoke University Hospital.
West Midlands Ambulance Service say the other biker, a man in his 50s, suffered less serious injuries but was also taken to hospital for treatment.
News: Union wants action to cut NHS attacks; boy writes to prime minister over cerebral palsy; Bosley explosion remembrance plannedpublished at 10:09 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
This morning's main headlines include:
- Attacks on NHS staff in Staffordshire, external need to be stopped, a union says
- A Newcastle-under-Lyme boy's written to the prime minister asking why the NHS won't fund the physiotherapy he needs after an operation to treat his cerebral palsy
- A remembrance weekend will be held in July for the families of those killed or affected by the Bosley explosion
Football: Stoke City captain had 'hard season' says defender Pieterspublished at 09:53 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2016
Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
The Stoke City defender Erik Pieters says it's been a tough season for his club captain.
Image source, Getty Images
Ryan Shawcross made his return to the team in the 2-1 defeat to Southampton on Saturday, after almost two months out injured.
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It's good for him and good for us. It's always good to have one defender back because we don't have many left. Hopefully for him he stays fit to the end of the season because I think it's been a really hard season for him with loads of injuries."
Erik Pieters, Stoke City defender