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Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
We keep receiving great pictures of Staffordshire and Cheshire here at BBC Stoke, sent in by you, our audience and here are six I've picked out today.
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Audience pictures of Staffordshire and Cheshire.
The number of entries for this year's International Cheese Awards in Nantwich are up 13% on last year, the organisers have said.
There are 5,685 cheeses vying for awards, and the entries have come from more than 30 countries, including the United States, Canada and New Zealand.
Image source, International Cheese AwardsLast year Gert van Leeuwen from Treur Kaas in the Netherlands won the Supreme Champion award for his aged cheese made from Jersey cow milk.
Quote MessageIt is a big thing to win them these days and everyone wants to win that gold medal."
Chris Chisnall, Chairman of International Cheese Awards
Bradbury's Cheese, external from Buxton in Derbyshire have been crowned the Supreme Champions at this year's International Cheese Awards in Nantwich.
Waitrose walked away with the Supreme Retailer prize.
And it looks like they've been eating well - they tweeted these photos earlier.
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The supreme judge at this year's International Cheese Awards in Nantwich says the event brings the whole industry together.
There are over 5,000 representatives from cheese makers and retailers at Dorfield Park today and David Williams said "everybody is here, you just bump into friends".
Mr Williams said the show was a big event in the cheese-making year and the place where producers can tie up big deals with supermarkets and other retailers.
He is the fourth generation of judges at the show and this year his son is a judge too.
Quote MessageIt's a massive industry, but so small when you think the whole industry is in that marquee."
David Williams, Supreme judge, International Cheese Awards
Burnley sign full-back Charlie Taylor from Leeds, after agreeing a deal with Stoke City for Jon Walters.
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Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
The former Port Vale striker Ray Williams says he thinks Tom Pope (pictured) and Tyrone Barnett have what it takes to make the club serious promotion contenders this season.
Image source, Port Vale FCBoth strikers have been signed by manager Michael Brown this summer with Pope joining from Bury and Barnett from AFC Wimbledon.
Williams told BBC Radio Stoke that they can both have an impact at League Two level.
Quote MessageCertainly Tom Pope's goal-scoring record is second to none. Barnett's had a poor time of it of late but I think he's been playing in poor sides. I certainly think, if we can recreate the form of four or five years ago, then he will certainly be a threat."
Ray Williams, Former Port Vale striker
Rugeley and Brereton residents are being asked to have their say on the future of the power station site., external
The jury trying four men in an alleged terror cell accused of plotting a Lee Rigby-style attack has been sent out to begin deliberations.
The group - known as The Three Musketeers - was arrested last summer following an undercover operation by police and MI5.
Naweed Ali, 29, and Khobaib Hussain, 25 - both of Sparkhill in Birmingham - deny preparing terrorist acts, as do Stoke-on-Trent men Mohibur Rahman, 33, and Tahir Aziz, 38.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Old Bailey has heard how a stash of weapons and ammunition, including a partially-built pipe bomb and a meat cleaver, was found in Mr Ali's car in Birmingham on August 26 last year.
But the defendants claim the items - found in a JD Sports bag - were planted by corrupt undercover officers.
A juror was discharged last week after it emerged she had tried to play matchmaker for another woman on the jury who found a police officer in the case attractive. He had been criticised during the trial by the defence team.
Lamont Howie
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke
Nantwich is hosting what's being dubbed as the biggest cheese show in the world from today.
Cheeses at the International Cheese Awards
More than 5,000 cheese from over 30 countries are on show at the International Cheese Awards on Dorfield Park., external
Judging is being held today with the event open to the public tomorrow.
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
Two men have been arrested after what police have called a serious assault in Stoke-on-Trent. , external
Image source, GoogleStaffordshire Police says a 16-year-old boy was attacked yesterday afternoon and hit on his legs with metal objects on Sherratt Street.
They say the two men, aged 43 and 22, arrested in connection with the assault have been released under investigation.
Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
Dial-a-ride bus services could be axed under a range of plans being considered in Staffordshire to save money. , external
The county council says it wants public feedback on how it uses its £1.3m budget for subsidising bus travel in the county in the future.
Image source, GoogleThe money's used to help pay for journeys where not enough people use the service for it to pay for itself but the council says that can at times cost £10 per passenger on some journeys.
The council's drawn up four options for how it uses the money in the future which include subsidising as many bus services as possible with no dial-a-ride services.
However another option would see a county-wide network of dial-a-ride services with no other bus services being subsidised.
It's running a consultation on which option people prefer until 17 September., external
Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Former Stoke City manager Lou Macari's told BBC Radio Stoke he doesn't think the club will struggle in the Premier League this season, despite the loss of Marko Arnautovic.
Image source, Michael Regan/Getty ImagesStoke finished in the bottom-half of the table for the first time under Mark Hughes last season, and have lost two goalscorers in Arnautovic and Jonathan Walters so far this summer.
Quote MessageThey'll be safe as usual. What they do on top of that or what they do below that, we just need to wait and see but I never consider Stoke to be in much trouble."
Lou Macari, Former Stoke City manager
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
Stoke-on-Trent long jumper Jazmin Sawyers will compete in next month's World Championships in London.
Image source, Dan Mullan/Getty ImagesBritish Athletics confirmed this morning that five athletes, external, including the 23-year-old, have been added to its team for the event.
The organisation says Sawyers is a "championship performer" while the athlete tweeted that, external she "couldn't be happier" at the news.
The cost of holiday childcare has risen by more than 82% across the West Midlands since 2010, Labour has said.
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the situation was made worse because incomes had fallen in real terms over the same period.
Image source, PANationally there has been a rise of 50%, according to Ms Rayner.
The Tories said Labour had "blundered" because the party was in charge of childcare in Wales, where they said rises had been double the national average.
Liz Ellis
Presenter, BBC Radio Stoke
The parents of a little boy from Stafford who has cerebral palsy have begun a fundraising campaign, external to help their son walk unaided.
Henry Gibbs was diagnosed at the age of two and, without specialist treatment and follow-up physiotherapy, his parents say he'll eventually need a wheelchair.
The treatment, known as selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR), costs around £50,000 but is not available on the NHS.
NHS England says it doesn't routinely fund the treatment based on clinical advice because there isn't sufficient evidence of its effectiveness compared to other treatments available.
Quote MessageWhen we take him to playgrounds and things like that, he will noticeably look at other children running around, he will say he wants to walk and all we can do is either hold him by the hand and take him with us or put him on his frame but it's never the same."
Jacob Gibbs, Parent of boy with cerebral palsy
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
A national memorial to evacuees during World War Two is due to be officially unveiled today in Staffordshire.
Image source, National Memorial ArboretumThe British Evacuees Association fundraised towards it and says it is in memory of evacuated children during the conflict and also to all those involved, external in the evacuation process.
They say the memorial portrays a group of confused children "as they would have appeared on Evacuation day".
It'll be unveiled this afternoon at the National Memorial Arboretum which says the Duke of Gloucester will be at the dedication., external
BBC Wales News
People are being urged to come forward if they have new information on an unidentified body found buried in a shallow grave 46 years ago in Burton.
It's after detectives said it is not a missing man from Denbighshire, John Henry Jones, from Trevor, near Llangollen, who went missing in 1970.
Image source, CrimewatchHis family came forward after the reconstructed face of a man found buried in Staffordshire in 1971 was shown on the BBC's Crimewatch.
But Det Insp Dan Ison, of Staffordshire Police, said DNA tests showed the man was not Mr Jones.
However he said their investigation is still open and "we'd ask people to check the image and contact us if they have new information."
BBC Midlands Today
An ancient police truncheon found in a thatched roof in Staffordshire is going up for auction today. , external
Image source, Hansons AuctioneersHansons Auctioneers says the 213-year-old truncheon was discovered by a child when a farm, near Lichfield, was demolished in the 1960s.
The auctioneers have valued it at between two and three hundred pounds and say they expect the rare item, made in 1804, to draw worldwide attention.
BBC Sport
Uttoxeter swimmer Adam Peaty sliced more than three-tenths of a second off his own 50m breaststroke world record in the heats at the World Aquatics Championships on Tuesday.
Image source, FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP/Getty ImagesPeaty swam 26.10 seconds in Hungary, eclipsing the 26.42 secs he produced at the 2015 Worlds.
The Briton retained his 100m breaststroke title on Monday.
Shop assistant Antony Sebastian has told how he scared off a knife-wielding teenage robber – by threatening him with a baseball bat., external
Image source, The Sentinel
