Staffordshire raids find more than 118,000 illegal cigarettes
Australia to deport Stoke-on-Trent mother-of-five to UK
Bid to help Stafford boy with cerebral palsy walk to school
Updates on Tuesday 24 May 2016
More than £10 million of taxpayers' money will be spent transforming key city centre shopping areas, external – as well as knocking down Crown Bank toilets.
Image source, The Sentinel
Jennifer Meierhans
BBC News Online
Pupils are returning to a Newcastle-under-Lyme primary school today after a Norovirus outbreak affected 103 children and eight staff.
Bursley Academy was closed on Friday and yesterday while 20 cleaners got to work.
The school had said, external health and safety was its "highest priority" after symptoms arose on Thursday. Eight staff and 103 children had fallen ill by Friday.
Principal Brian Wilkinson said every book, toy and surface had been disinfected.
Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
This morning's headlines include:
- Virtual reality technology used in the gaming industry could be adapted to recreate crime scenes for juries, researchers in Staffordshire have claimed
- The layout of a Stoke-on-Trent road is to be reviewed, external after cars crash into houses there twice this year
- Pupils are returning to a Newcastle-under-Lyme primary school today after a Norovirus outbreak affected 103 children and eight staff
Lucy Martin
BBC Weather
If you need a weather forecast for your part of Staffordshire or Cheshire at any other time, you can get one from the BBC website.
BBC Travel
There's slow traffic on the A50 Lichfield Street in Stoke-on-Trent at the Berkeley Street junction, in the roadworks area.
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
What a difference to the start of the day this morning - blue skies over Stoke-on-Trent and barely a cloud in them.
We'll have the latest weather forecast for you shortly and more news, sport and other updates for Staffordshire and Cheshire.
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