BBC Local Live: Staffordshire & Cheshire on Friday 2 June 2017

Summary

Beauty spot pool death: Victim named by coroner
Doctor who treated bomb victims feared second attack
World's top women cyclists to ride through West Midlands
Thousands expected for literary festival
Updates on Friday 2 June 2017

Live Reporting

Allen Cook

Football: 'New spine' promised for Port Vale team next seasonpublished at 16:08 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Port Vale's chief executive Colin Garlick has assured supporters they'll see a "new spine" to the team next season.
Image source, Pete Norton/Getty Images
Manager Michael Brown released 15 players after the team were relegated to League Two.
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We're looking at the spine of a side so obviously a key signing would be Tom Pope at the head of that but also midfield, centre-backs and goalkeeper, that's what they're identifying."
Colin Garlick, Port Vale chief executive
Old Stafford Library facing new future as theatre and gallerypublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Express and Star
A historic library building could be transformed into a theatre and gallery, under new plans, external.
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Football: Stoke chairman warns Premier League new boys of tough leaguepublished at 15:26 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Stoke City's chairman Peter Coates says he thinks newly promoted side Huddersfield Town will be playing their football next season in the toughest league in the world.
Image source, Ian Walton/Getty Images
Huddersfield will play in the top flight for the first time since 1972 and will play in the Premier League for the very first time.
Next season will be Stoke's 10th since their own promotion and Coates told BBC Radio Stoke it comes with a lot of challenges.
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I can't stress how highly competitive this league is. There's not been another league like it you know. Playing in the Premier League isn't like the old first division by a million miles and there isn't another league that has the same competitive pressures."
Peter Coates, Stoke City chairman
Cyclist dies in crash with vanpublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
A cyclist has died in a crash in Staffordshire this morning. , external
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Staffordshire Police says the man collided with a van on Straight Mile, at the junction of Vicarage Road.
The force says traffic is still being diverted around the scene as they carry out a forensic investigation.
Coroner raises 'benefits' suicide linkpublished at 14:43 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Andrew Haigh says it is possible the number of such cases are increasing.
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Woman’s handbag stolen as she visited gravepublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Nantwich News
Thieves stole the handbag of a pensioner while she visited a relative’s grave in Crewe, external, police have revealed.
Five arrests after violent fights on Burton streetpublished at 14:26 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
Three men and two youngsters have been arrested after violence erupted on a Burton street., external
Staffordshire Police said they received several calls to fights breaking out on Uxbridge Street last night.
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They say all five are from Burton, aged from 15 to 35, and are being held on suspicion of affray.
Three other men involved in the incident suffered injuries and went to A&E but they aren't thought to be seriously hurt, officers say.
Millions to be spent on 'backlog' of 13,000 potholespublished at 14:06 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Sarah Robertson
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
A backlog of 13,000 potholes in Staffordshire is going to be tackled thanks to a £5m pot, the county council's announced.
The authority says it'll be employing an extra 12 "patching crews" and four machines to speed up repairs.
It says that the county's large rural network of roads has been a "challenge" in terms of repairing potholes.
As well as fixing them, the council says, where roads have several nearby defects, it'll carry out wider repairs to the road's surface.
On Midlands Today from 13:30: Breast surgeon jailed for 15 yearspublished at 13:25 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Nicola Beckford
Reporter, BBC Midlands Today
On Midlands Today this lunchtime, we'll have reaction as West Midlands breast surgeon Ian Paterson is jailed today for 15 years.
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He'd previously been found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding.
We'll have the full story from 13:30 on BBC One.
Ian Paterson: How first-known victim's surgery unfoldedpublished at 12:59 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
BBC News England
A former patient of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson has described how he nearly killed her on the operating table.
Gill Dallow, 54, from Lichfield, underwent a laparoscopy at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham in 1996.
The surgery is a minimally invasive procedure, but Paterson tore through an artery.
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Gill Dallow
The 59-year-old from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, was employed by the NHS at the Heart of England Trust, and also performed operations at the Spire's Little Aston and Parkway hospitals in the West Midlands.
On Wednesday, Paterson was jailed for 15 years after being found guilty in April of intentionally harming patients.
'He took a pound of flesh for money'published at 12:36 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
As disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson is jailed, more of his victims share their stories.
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Disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson sentenced to 15 years in prisonpublished at 12:26 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Monica Rimmer
Journalist, BBC Online
Disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson, 59, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Paterson was found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding.
His victims included Frances Perks of Burntwood, Staffordshire who had several operations after being refered to him which, it later turned out, had not been necessary.
Mr Justice Jeremy Baker gave the sentence at Nottingham Crown Court.
Grimsby sign Port Vale winger Kellypublished at 12:24 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Grimsby Town sign out-of-contract Port Vale winger Sam Kelly on a two-year deal.
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County show 'as safe as it possibly can be'published at 12:12 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Russell Truran
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
Organisers of this year's Staffordshire County Show say, external it's as "safe as it possibly can be".
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Horses at county show
It comes as extra security's been put on following last week's attack in Manchester and there's a definite visible police presence.
But, with thousands expected to visit over the next two days, those behind the event say they don't want people to be put off from coming.
Community group giving 'forgotten' town a collective voicepublished at 11:46 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
The Sentinel
A community group has spent the last two years fighting to bring improvements to their "forgotten" town., external
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Brewers striker facing busy summerpublished at 11:02 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
Burton Albion midfielder Jackson Irvine has been called up to the Australia squad for five games over the next two months, external.
The Socceroos are due to face Saudi Arabia in a World Cup qualifier before taking on Brazil in a friendly in Melbourne.
Image source, Getty Images
They then travel to the Confederations Cup in Russia where they will face Germany, Cameroon and Chile in the group stage.
Cyclist and van in 'serious crash'published at 10:56 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
A cyclist and a van have been involved in a serious crash in Staffordshire this morning, external, police say.
Staffordshire Police says the incident is ongoing and has happened at Straight Mile in Four Ashes, at the junction of Vicarage Road.
The force says they and the ambulance service are at the scene and the road is currently blocked. The air ambulance has also been to the area.
Father's describes his daughters descent into Spice usepublished at 10:39 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
BBC News England
A father from Stafford is urging people not to be tempted into trying psychoactive drugs.
Derek Gibbs lost his daughter Kelly in January last year, after she’d smoked the drug Spice.
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Derek Gibbs
The mother-of-three was a drug user, but after smoking Spice she had a heart attack and died.
It’s now a year since the former legal highs became illegal, but Derek argues the drug is still easily accessible and things are now worse.
Glue workers' strike enters second daypublished at 10:06 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Sarah Robertson
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
Staff at a glue-makers in Stafford are striking for a second day.
It's part of a six-month dispute over pay between Bostik and the Unite trade union.
Image source, Google
They say they are unhappy at a 2% pay rise offered to workers and have industrial action planned until mid-July.
The company says, while it respects the decision of the union members, its door "remains open" for further talks.
More security for Staffordshire County Showpublished at 09:33 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
Lee Blakeman
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
Extra security's been put on for the Staffordshire County Show, external, which begins today.
For the first time bags, back-packs and trolleys will be checked and guests will be scanned with security devices.
Image source, Google
More than 70,000 visitors are expected at the show ground in Stafford.
They'll see everything from cattle to tractors from a variety of exhibitors and get to sample local produce.