A driver has needed hospital treatment after crashing into a wall. Paramedics treated the casualty after being called to Main Road, in Betley, at 6.58pm last night. Staffordshire Police closed part of Main Road – near East Lawns – following the collision. StokeonTrentLive has approached the force for a statement …
Read More »Reggie, 3, given Royal Stoke cancer bombshell after GP sends him home
The parents of a three-year-old boy are enduring a ‘living nightmare’ – after seeing their loved-one struck down with cancer. Little Reggie Bebbington was taken to a GP after a lump appeared on his belly earlier this year. But when the GP could not identify the problem dad Kane Billington …
Read More »Royal Stoke ‘scandal’ as gran, 72, has brain op cancelled twice
A daughter has slammed the treatment of her 72-year-old mum – after having an operation to remove her brain tumour cancelled twice. Disabled Mary Clews was diagnosed with the benign brain tumour on August 21 after she went to A&E following two seizures. But despite being admitted to the Royal …
Read More »More than 270 A&E patients left waiting over 12 hours in just one month
More than 270 patients had to wait over 12 hours to be admitted to the University Hospitals of North Midlands as emergency cases last month. The number of 12-hour emergency waits at the NHS trust more than doubled in October, from 127 to 278, as A&E departments at Royal Stoke, …
Read More »Royal Stoke mum gave birth to ‘miracle baby’ – now she wants Government action
A mum who has defied medics to deliver a ‘miracle baby’ at Stoke-on-Trent’s main hospital is on a collision course with the Government. Joanne Cole became one of the first women in the world to get pregnant and conceive with motor neurone disease (MND) when she gave birth to Sebastian …
Read More »Man taken to hospital with ‘potentially serious injuries’ after being hit by car in Stoke-on-Trent
A man has been taken to hospital with ‘potentially serious injuries’ after being hit by a car on a Stoke-on-Trent road. An ambulance noticed the collision on the A53, Leek Road, in Stockton Brook, shortly before 9.30am today (March 22). The road was closed while paramedics worked at the scene. …
Read More »Alton Towers owner donates thousands of tickets to key workers in ‘Big Merlin Thank You’
The company that owns Alton Towers is giving away 30,000 tickets to emergency services and support workers across the world. Merlin Entertainments is donating the tickets to people in Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand as well as 10,000 in the UK. Most of the tickets in the UK …
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