• Staffordshire County Council's Trading Standards team supported Lichfield District Council and Staffordshire Police in the closure of a shop that had sold illegal cigarettes.

• Goods seized from shop include over 11k illicit cigarettes and more than 3kg hand rolling tobacco worth more than £6,000.

• On Friday 30 January, Cannock Magistrates’ Court granted a Closure Order for Mini Market for the maximum permitted period of three months, effective immediately.

Highways crews will be starting major improvements at the Cellarhead junction in the Staffordshire Moorlands next week.

Staffordshire County Council is investing an extra £15 million over the next two years to accelerate repairs of lower‑level potholes across the county.

Ofsted inspectors have praised ‘significant’ improvements in Staffordshire’s children services.

A trial bus service linking four South Staffordshire villages with Wolverhampton city centre which started this month has already been extended – after the county council took on board community feedback.

A new programme of Community Learning courses has just launched, following another successful year that saw thousands of adults benefit from new skills and improved wellbeing.

Plans to install a temporary footbridge in Burston are ready to move forward as soon as weather conditions allow, with engineers fully prepared to begin work at the earliest safe opportunity.

Anthony Screen, Staffordshire County Council Cabinet Member for Community Safety said.

A major repair programme to a canal bridge water main and sewerage pipe in South Staffordshire is being developed.

Residents aged 50 and over are invited to join a series of weekly music and movement classes taking place at Cannock and Heath Hayes libraries.