Flowers in Stapenhill Gardens Burton on Trent
Burton’s historic Stapenhill Gardens have been added to the growing list of East Staffordshire’s Green Flag sites in this year’s round of prestigious awards.
The award-winning gardens celebrated its new Green Flag status on Wednesday, July 28th with a special flag raising ceremony attended by East Staffordshire Mayor, Councillor David [...]

Fifty nine children from the Burton on Trent area are celebrating this week after passing their Speech and Drama exams.
The children aged between five and sixteen from Theatre Cats Stage School which has classes in Burton as well as Derby and Newhall, took Drama exams run by Trinity College London…and every single student passed.
They had [...]

Footloose – The Musical!
Based on the popular movie Footloose which starred Kevin Bacon and Sarah Jessica Parker, this musical tells the story of a city boy who moves to a small town where dancing is banned. Life in Bomont is peaceful until Ren arrives. Breaking every taboo, Ren brings dance back to the heart of [...]

East Staffordshire Borough Council is announcing a significant change to its senior management structure designed to improve service provision and meet the challenging financial reductions to be set by Central Government this autumn.
Since coming to power in May, the coalition government has announced a raft of fundamental changes to the way local government will be [...]

A local care home in Burton on Trent attracted the crowds last Saturday with a spectacular Summer Fayre, where a genuine Dot Cotton EastEnders script, a dress worn by Barbara Windsor, who played Peggy Mitchell on the show and several signed photographs by other cast members were auctioned off.
Elder Homes Group Rider House care home [...]