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Moorlands micro-businesses offered free FSB membership for a year

By Jack Lenton

3rd Mar 2021 | Local News

As the roadmap for easing Covid restrictions in England is published, 25 micro-businesses in the Moorlands are being offered a year's free membership to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) to help them plan for the future.

The offer, worth £183 per business, is being jointly funded by Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and Staffordshire County Council and will enable the successful businesses to access a wide range of support including legal and tax advice and a discounted workplace pensions scheme.

Leek Nub News launches

By Jack Lenton

2nd Mar 2021 | Local News

A new website has launched to serve the town of Leek with hyper-local news and what's on - but without any intrusive advertising.

Leek Nub News is an online local newspaper solely for Leek and the surrounding area.

"Keep going" to make roadmap out of lockdown a reality, Staffordshire health bosses say

By Jack Lenton

2nd Mar 2021 | Local News

As the first step of the government's four-stage roadmap out of lockdown approaches, local health bosses are asking residents and businesses to 'keep going' to make sure restrictions are eased.

Staffordshire County Council health chiefs have stressed that each roadmap step is provisional and will be assessed against four tests - with the final decision being based on what appears to have become one of the government's latest slogans - "data, not dates".

More than 9 out of 10 Staffordshire parents allocated first choice secondary school

By Jack Lenton

2nd Mar 2021 | Local News

More than nine out of 10 parents learned yesterday (Monday) that they have been allocated their first-choice secondary school in Staffordshire.

Of the 8020 offers made for a Staffordshire secondary, 94.6 per cent were for a first-choice school, up from 93 per cent last year. Nearly 97 per cent have been allocated one of their top three preferred schools.

Just how good are the Covid vaccine stats in the Moorlands and Staffordshire?

By Jack Lenton

1st Mar 2021 | Local News

The Covid vaccine rollout in the Moorlands and Staffordshire as a whole has been widely praised as having one of the best jab rates in the country.

So just how good has the local vaccination process been compared to the rest of the UK?

Five new "community orchards" are being planted in Leek

By Jack Lenton

1st Mar 2021 | Local News

Planting community orchards is one of the ways Staffordshire Moorlands District Council is aiming to improve natural spaces - and the first five of a planned 30 orchards around the Moorlands are now in the ground.

Since adopting a Green Infrastructure Strategy in 2018, the Council has worked with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust to map the area and prepare a delivery plan which includes a list of around 60 potential projects.

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