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We need to recognise what J M Barrie understood – that for children, free imaginative play is a serious business, writes Alice Ferguson

By Leslie Carlyle “Where creativity lives” proclaims the banner on Fitzroy Place, while the developers there brag about having pre-sold...

Comment: City MP says Conservative message is not reaching voters and engaging them enough to visit the polling booths.

Politicians are keeping us in the dark over how public money is being used by private health providers such as Circle

Success: The City of Lincoln Council leader reflects on last night's results, voter behaviour and the future of the labour-based council.

Negligence: How a decomposed snail found in a drinks bottle shaped the way the law looks at negligence, even without a contract in place.

Comment: Lincoln Labour parliamentary candidate is over the moon with her party's landslide win the local elections.

Comment: UKIP leader happy his party beat the Liberal Democrats by almost double votes in all wards except one.

All three major parties should keep in mind that a good local election result does not lay a path to general election victory

Disability living allowance is being replaced with personal independence payment assessments, and private companies are queueing up to cash in

Recession marketing: Businesses should maintain their marketing budget or even increase it because not all their competitors will think the same.

Consumer advice: Sue Phillips from the Citizens Advice Bureau in Lincoln explains what to you do when you go to eat out and receive poor service or...

A comfy consensus has been reached on the merits of elected mayors, despite an absence of any real debate on the issue

Comment feature of the site to cease with immediate effect… Regrettably, a significant change is going to have to be made to certain features of th...

Are you a land owner in Stoke-on-Trent? If you own land over 0.25 hectares in size then Stoke-on-Trent City Council is asking you to make contact t...

North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced plans to restructure. The Chamber, which is the support network for hundreds of ...

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Chief Fire Officer, Peter Dartford has expressed his shock at three serious fires in just four days in North Stafford...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has confirmed this evening that it has made a formal application to the High Court to put Port Vale Football Club into ...

As MIPIM just about to start from 6th to 9th March in Cannes, MIPIM is the European meeting point and deal making forum for many key industry playe...

The 1.6 million local government employees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being informed that in order to protect funding to vital fron...

Another week on and another Council Budget agreed with pledge to spend £12million and complete Hanley Ring Road, after the last proposal for ...

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Sir James Hawley KCVO the Lord-Lieutenant arrived to Staffordshire Fire and Rescue HQ with his wife, Lady Hawley, yesterday morning to get a lift t...

The Stoke-on-Trent stage of the 2011 Tour of Britain was easily the biggest hit with television viewers, recent audience figures have revealed.   ...

Former Stoke-on-Trent City Councillors Mark Davis and Hazel Lyth welcomed the publication of the findings of a Stoke-on-Trent City Council investig...

“Politician’s argue, sharpening their knives. Drawing up their bargains, trading baby lives.” It’s hard to decipher whether the...

A consultation into a ban on lap-dancing in Tower Hamlets closes on Monday so locals have only a couple of days in which to express their views. If...

When Home Secretary,  Theresa May,  got her chosen candidate for chief of the Metropolitan Police his sole qualification for the job  seemed to ...

Earlier this week the Boundary Commission published the proposed boundary changes for 2013 which aims to reduce the number of constituencies in Eng...

Personal budgets: Are they a good idea, or just a way to privatise adult social care?