Community and living
Staffordshire communities are the heart of our county and we want to make sure they are safe prosperous places to live and work.
We work with our partners across the county, including the police, fire authority, district and borough councils to get to the heart of what matters to local people
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- Urging women to 'make' their men enlist, the rising price of food and teaching children to milk cows to replace farmhands were all concerns in Staffordshire during the Great War.
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- 09 November 2018
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- Created in 1856 by Queen Victoria and reputed to be cast from bronze cannon captured in the Crimea, the Victoria Cross is Britain's highest recognition for bravery in the face of the enemy.
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- 07 November 2018
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- They may not have recreated the horrors experienced by men in the trenches of the Western Front, but the WWI training camps on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire helped prepare the soldiers who would eventually win the war.
- Date:
- 07 November 2018
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- People at increased risk from the effects of the flu are being reminded to take up their free vaccination ahead of the winter months.
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- 06 November 2018
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- Bells ringing, fog horns going off on the railway, flags hoisted, and people dancing about were the scenes in Stone on Armistice Day described in a letter written by Lois Turner.
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- 05 November 2018
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- Twenty one years after the first trees were planted at a reclaimed quarry, Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum will take centre stage for this year's 100th anniversary commemorations to mark the end of the Great War.
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- 05 November 2018
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- Staffordshire's spookiest cycling routes revealed
- Date:
- 29 October 2018
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- Company and directors handed £50,000 fines for carrying out aggressive sales
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- 25 October 2018