BBC Local Live: Stoke & Staffordshire on Thursday 21 April 2016

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Updates on Thursday 21 April 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Friday

Live Reporting

Allen Cook

Your pictures: Sky high on Cannock Chase and Peak District swanspublished at 10:29 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
This shot of Cannock Chase from on high was taken by Will Hook who shared it with us.
Image source, Will Hook
While Villager Jim's the man behind this picture of swans nestling together which he photographed in the Peak District.
Please do keep sending your pictures of the area in, they're great to get - use email, tweet @BBCRadioStoke, external or put them on Instagram (adding #bbcstoke to the description), external.
Image source, Villager Jim
Football: Former Stoke captain calls for 'team work' to stop slumppublished at 10:15 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
The former Stoke City captain Denis Smith says "team work" will help get the club out of their recent slump.
Image source, Getty Images
The Potters have won just once in their last six games and head to third-placed Manchester City on Saturday.
Smith told BBC Radio Stoke that Mark Hughes will be demanding more from his team this weekend.
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It is all of them pulling together and not looking round and pointing fingers. Ryan (Shawcross, captain) has got to be pulling people about, Glenn Whelan, your experienced players who are the backbone saying "look, we can do this".
Denis Smith, Former Stoke City captain
News: Two charged over canister incident; smokers at hospital criticised; sinkhole B&B to reopenpublished at 09:59 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Lee Blakeman
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
The main headlines this morning include:
- Two men have been charged by police, external after a gas canister was set off at a fast food outlet in Stafford earlier this week
- The head of midwifery at the Royal Stoke University Hospital, external has criticised people who have been smoking outside their maternity ward
- A bed and breakfast in Staffordshire which has been closed for two years because of a landslide is due to reopen today
Nantwich pupils hit Olympic trail in Run To Rio campaignpublished at 09:46 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Nantwich News
Youngsters at a Nantwich primary school are running across five continents and around 6,000 miles, external - in a special Run to Rio.
Image source, Nantwich News
Watch: Photos of Queen visiting Staffordshirepublished at 09:27 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Archive photos of the Queen visiting Staffordshire have been tweeted by the county council in a tribute to mark her 90th birthday.
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Road still shut by 'metre-deep' potholepublished at 09:07 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Trystan Jones
BBC News Online
A Stoke-on-Trent road remains closed this morning after a pothole measuring "a metre deep" opened up in a carriageway.
Image source, Mark McRostie
Keelings Road in Stoke-on-Trent was sealed off by Staffordshire Police yesterday afternoon.
The city council said the cause of the hole is being investigated by Highways England and Severn Trent.
Two charged after canister set off in McDonald'spublished at 08:53 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Liam Barnes
BBC News Online
Two men have been charged by police, external after a gas canister was set off at a fast food outlet in Stafford earlier this week.
Emergency services were called to McDonald's on Eccleshall Road on Monday - 12 people were examined by paramedics, with two girls needing hospital treatment.
Image source, West Midlands Ambulance Service
Staffordshire Police say a 25-year-old man from Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been charged with possessing a weapon for the discharge of a noxious gas and causing / adminstering a noxious gas with intent to injure/aggrieve/annoy.
The force says a 23-year-old from Leicester has been charged with possessing a weapon for the discharge of a noxious gas.
News: New cancer centre; call for smoking ban at hospital; sinkhole B&B to reopenpublished at 08:38 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Lee Blakeman
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
The main headlines for Staffordshire and Cheshire this morning include:
- Work starts this morning on a new cancer centre at Birmingham Children's Hospital, external, which will benefit children in Staffordshire
- A mother who says she suffered from second-hand smoke at Stoke-on-Trent's main hospital , externalfor 10 days says she wants it banned from the grounds completely
- A bed and breakfast in Staffordshire which has been closed for two years because of a landslide is due to reopen today
Watch: Today's weather forecast for Stoke and Staffordshirepublished at 08:24 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
If you want your weather forecast at any other time, head to the BBC website to get it.
Travel: Pothole shuts B5049 road in Stoke-on-Trentpublished at 08:09 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
BBC Travel
The B5049 Keelings Road in Northwood, Stoke-on-Trent is shut both ways between the A5008 Bucknall New Road junction and the Cromer Road junction.
It's because of a huge pothole.
Welcome to Stoke and Staffordshire's Live coverage for Thursdaypublished at 08:00 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
Dry, bright and sunny again this morning in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent - I'm not sure what we've done to deserve it but let's enjoy the good start.
Charlie Slater will have a weather video forecast for you shortly and then there'll be more updates including news, sport and travel through the day.
It's great to get your thoughts on any story or photos of the area - to do either you can email us, tweet @BBCRadioStoke, external or use Instagram for photos, external.