Dracula fans, takeaway lovers and thwarted drinkers are all counting the cost of flouting the rules.

In a new BBC three-part programme, Football's Darkest Secret, survivors of child sexual abuse in football talk about the impact on their lives and about speaking out.

Motorway police said they pulled this van over on the M6 earlier as it looked a "bit low" at the back.

Weighing it revealed just how overweight the vehicle was, leading to the driver being served with a court summons.

The post office owner says he feels "not so alone" after the community helped to raise money.

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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of poisoning after a man was found in cardiac arrest.

Staffordshire Police officers were called by the ambulance service to a property in Rowhurst Crescent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, at 16:45 GMT on Sunday.

The man in his 30s was taken to hospital where he was in a critical condition, the force said.

A 43-year-old woman from Newcastle-under-Lyme was arrested and remains in police custody.

The force said she was arrested on suspicion of "section 23 offences", or maliciously administering poison, as to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm., external

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Residents say an odour from a landfill site in Staffordshire is causing them to feel ill.

Joshua Molnar is cleared of having a knife in public after a review of the case by prosecutors.

Evha Jannath's death at Drayton Manor was an "utterly tragic waste of a young life", the judge says.

Kyra King had rented her Cannock home for 16 years before she died of Covid-19 in February.

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It is set to be a dull and cloudy day, but it should stay dry, with highs of 12°C (54°F).

The suspect is released on bail after being questioned about the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001.

A watchdog looking into Anthony Grainger's death says forces must not use out-of-date intelligence.

A rapids ride at Drayton Manor had a history of failings before a child's death, a court is told.

Six-year-old conservationist Aneeshwar Kunchala is hoping his videos will help make a difference.

Phoebe Dynevor will play Clarice Cliff, "a female pioneer who quite literally broke the mould".

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The number of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent residents receiving the Covid-19 vaccine is set to pass 500,000 this week, and a target to offer all adults their first dose by the end of July could be met several weeks early.

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The area has topped a national "league table" for vaccine administration, health bosses told a Staffordshire County Council meeting on Tuesday.

And there is capacity to give more than 150,000 jabs a week locally, through a combination of larger vaccination centres, hospital hubs, GP-led sites and venues run by pharmacies.

"What we’ve done literally is set up a medium-sized supermarket chain within a matter of four or five weeks to jab people," said Marcus Warnes, from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups.

"We have got the lowest stock levels of pretty much any system in the country – when we get it, we jab people with it."

Mr Warnes said he was "absolutely confident" the 15 April deadline to do priority groups one to nine would be delivered and it would "probably" be done by the end of March.

"We’re expecting around 80,000 doses of the vaccine this week – the highest week to date is 53,000."

Handforth Parish Council, which saw a rowdy meeting go viral, votes against a merger with Wilmslow.

The digger manufacturer says it will employ an extra 450 agency staff at its three UK factories.