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• The 2027 Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Tourism Awards now open for entries

• The awards recognise and celebrate people and businesses that make up county's £2.7bn tourism sector

• Deadline for nominations is Monday 6 September

• Shopkeeper charged with selling illegal tobacco given suspended jail sentence, unpaid work order and fine

• Officers seized over 25,000 illicit cigarettes from Newcastle Mini Market in Newcastle-under-Lyme

• Second prosecution for shopkeeper

• MPs back calls for bridge funding from government

• County council set to bid for Chetwynd Bridge

• Grade 2* Listed structure is gateway to NMA and asset to Staffordshire

• Screen Staffordshire celebrates first anniversary

• Film office brings £1.3m boost to the county economy in its first year

• Netflix, BBC and Channel 4 productions filmed in Staffordshire

• The Ignite programme has seen a record number of students attend intensive business skills workshops.

• One student said Ignite has helped him "move closer to his goal" of running a business one day.

• Ignite has helped over 36,000 young people across Staffordshire develop their enterprise skills.

• Staffordshire example spotlights policy flaw
• Rural locations risk being swallowed up by solar
• Stop the Solar Land Grab campaign continues