Updates on Wednesday 16 March 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Thursday
A dog will be destroyed as its owner was told to pay £5,000 in compensation, external after a "life-changing" attack on a factory worker.
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Lee Blakeman
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
Staffordshire and Cheshire's top stories this morning include:
- The number of patients complaining to Staffordshire's biggest hospital trust, the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, has dropped in the last year, external
- MP calls for a new bypass around Stoke-on-Trent
- Shoppers in Stafford have told BBC Radio Stoke they have been left confused by a spelling mistake in a new shop sign
Alice Bentley
BBC Local Live
Shoppers in Stafford have told BBC Radio Stoke they have been left confused by a spelling mistake in a new shop sign.
Fone Giant's red façade is spelt with the A and the I in "giant" the wrong way round - some might also question the firm's own spelling of phone.
BBC Radio Stoke has approached the shop for comment, but not had any response.
Chris King
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke
Staffordshire's biggest hospital trust, the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, has seen a fall in the number of complaints from patients, external.
Latest figures between October and December last year show that 221 people submitted formal grievances about services provided by the trust, compared with 251 in the previous year.
Of the trust's hospitals, the Royal Stoke University Hospital fielded 173, while 48 were recorded at the County Hospital in Stafford.
More motorists risk being caught speeding on the 50mph stretch of the A500, external - after police invested in new technology.
Image source, The Sentinel
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
It's a big day on the political front and one that will affect all of us in any number of ways.
That's because the chancellor George Osborne will deliver his Budget statement today.
Throughout today our BBC colleagues will be bringing you the latest coverage, building up to the statement and then followed by reaction to all the announcements.
You can get to those updates by heading to the BBC's Budget 2016 Live page.
A lorry driver's been arrested for dangerous driving police say, after heading the wrong way along the M6 Toll route.
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Lee Blakeman
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
The main headlines this morning for Staffordshire and Cheshire include:
- Staffordshire's biggest hospital, the Royal Stoke University Hospital, sees a fall in the number of complaints from patients, external
- A Stoke-on-Trent MP, external is calling for a new bypass for north Staffordshire
- People living in Stafford won't have their bins emptied if they put the wrong type of waste in them, external, the local council warns
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
The BBC website's also available as a place to get your latest forecast at any time for Staffordshire and Cheshire.
BBC Travel
On the A38 northbound in Burton there's been an accident at Clay Mills.
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
Good morning and it's cold and breezy in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent - and cloudy as you can see from this picture I took of the Potteries Museum just before 07:30.
Charlie Slater will tell us what the rest of today will be like with his weather video shortly and there'll be the latest news, sport, travel and more through the day.
You can send in pictures of the area and I'll try to feature as many as I can - do that on email, tweet @BBCRadioStoke, external or use Instagram, external.
