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A fire has caused severe damage to a cottage in the Staffordshire Moorlands. The fire at the two-storey building with a barn next door, in Sheen, near Longnor, started on Monday evening. Four fire ...
Leek journalist Tom Burnett talks about some of his favourite rural pubs in the Staffordshire Moorlands - and some he wants to visit for a pint next ...
A search is under way for the elderly occupant of a Staffordshire Moorlands cottage badly damaged by fire. Police have said that the man remains unaccounted for following the blaze at Sheen, near ...
A community pub in the Staffordshire Moorlands has had a new landlord appointed. The previous tenant of the Royal Oak, on Macclesfield Road, Rushton Spencer, announced he was leaving in late June ...
Known as the “Queen of the Moorlands”, the town of Leek sits high on the Staffordshire edge of the Peak District, surrounded by commanding peaks such as Hen Cloud and The Roaches. It is a ...
Bids have been launched for more than £40m of government money to improve parts of Staffordshire Moorlands. ... Historic Crewe town centre railway cottages to be renovated this summer. External.
Ms Gayton, of Taste of the Moorlands bakery in Leek, said: "It's the Staffordshire Moorlands. There's moors on those hills aren't there? It's been called that for years, it's a community's identity.
The Staffordshire Moorlands is rebranded as the Staffordshire Peak District in an effort to boost visitor numbers.