Residents in care homes across Staffordshire are celebrating healthier smiles thanks to the NHS-backed Care to Smile programme.

Highways crews in Staffordshire are bracing themselves as Storm Goretti is due to hit the county tonight.

Staffordshire County Council’s Little Heroes campaign continues to make a real difference to children across the county – and for seven-year-old Harry, it’s been life-changing.

People in Staffordshire can grab a new year household bargain and support a community group or charity at the same time at a series of pop-up sales events in January run by the county council.

People are invited to a new interactive exhibition that explores life in the boisterous decade of the 1920s.

‘Open your heart, share your home’ is the latest campaign from Staffordshire County Council to help find families for some of the county’s most vulnerable children.

Almost 120 extra staff are to be appointed to Staffordshire’s children’s services.

Gritting crews have been working round the clock to treat the roads as snow fell across Staffordshire last night.

Drivers in Staffordshire are being reminded to check their cars are winter ready and to drive to the conditions as wintery weather bites.

Work to extend the cycleway through Burton town centre will begin next week, making it easier and safer for people to walk or cycle around the town.