“The next Mayor is going to be Richard Parker or it’s going to be Andy Street”

Baroness Ruth Anderson says the battle to be West Midlands Mayor is between the Conservatives and Labour #PoliticsMidlands

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Coming up next on BBC1 join Rob Mayor and James Morris MP Baroness Ruth Anderson and Irene Yoong-Henery for #PoliticsMidlands

On today’s agenda: Local Elections 2024. We’re in Dudley and Cannock. And can Reform UK mount a challenge? Watch now on BBC iPlayer

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Here I am… with a lamb! 🥰

🗺️ The fashion item featuring a map of Stoke-on-Trent bbc.in/4d5eQiC

👀

NEW: Angela Rayner says she will step down as Labour’s deputy leader if she’s found to have broken the law.

“I will say as I did before - if I committed a criminal offence, I would of course do the right thing and step down.”

Arshdeep Singh and Jagdeep Singh, from Dudley, along with Shivdeep Singh and Manjot Singh, from Smethwick, were all told they will serve at least 28 years in prison.

Sukhmandeep Singh, from Peterborough, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter.

bbc.com/news/articles/…

Legal bills paid by the taxpayer after Science Secretary Michelle Donelan falsely accused an academic of extremism came to more than £34,000.

Political Correspondent Nick Eardley had more details on #BBCBreakfast

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Plans have been put forward for a £106,000 skate park in Burntwood to replace nearby facilities.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Gordon Mole succeeds former chief executive Martin Hamilton, who stood down at the end of March after five years in the post.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Police investigate Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner bbc.in/3vGRK0W

(Also Lichfield!) Thanks Sue_Woodward 💙 for the reminder!

One of the final pieces in the jigsaw for Labour in Staffordshire.

They only have their Staffordshire Moorlands candidate left to select now, I think.

War veterans and widows of those who gave their lives in service are set to continue receiving assistance from a council housing benefit scheme.

- Kerry Ashdown -

bbc.com/news/articles/…

A Stoke-on-Trent school where 'too many pupils behave in a way that leaves other pupils feeling afraid' has been rated inadequate by Ofsted.

bbc.com/news/articles/…

A former underground reservoir is set to be turned into a home after councillors approved the plan, with one comparing it to a Hobbit house.

- Kerry Ashdown -

bbc.com/news/articles/…

Race Across the World! 😍 I genuinely love this programme so much! 🥰

Anyone else enjoying the new series so far?

This is bonkers. I love it. 🥰

bbc.com/news/articles/…

A car has crashed through the window of a jewellers shop, coming to a stop just feet away from staff bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Good to see some positive reporting of the Urban Wilderness CIC rainbow buddy benches around Longton Exchange.

Stoke Creates