Jonathan L. Bamber

Stoke-on-Trent

Journalist at The Sentinel (Stoke)

Journalist at The Sentinel. @SOTLive https://t.co/Ameks7nM1b. PNE fan. Views are my own.

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Families want speed camera on Stoke-on-Trent A34 as bikers hit 90mph

2 weeks ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

Families are calling for a speed camera on part of the A34. Stoke-on-Trent City Council reduced the speed limit on the northbound carriageway of the A34 Stone Road, near Hanford roundabout, from 40mph to 30mph after residents complained they could not get in and out of their drives safely due to motorists travelling too fast. But Stone Road residents say the speed limit cut has not solved the problem. Now they want a speed camera installed.
NHS worker Darren quits job to open Stoke-on-Trent cafe

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Jonathan L. Bamber

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NHS worker Darren quits job to open Stoke-on-Trent cafe

2 weeks ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

A new cafe and takeaway has opened in Hartshill. Brew & Butty Bar has opened in the former Makers and More shop in Hartshill Road. Owner Darren Gilbert, aged 55, left his job at NHS cancer services to run the cafe with his 49-year-old wife Tracy and mother-in-law Dottie Ailwood, aged 75. Darren, of Hartshill, told StokeonTrentLive: "This is something we have always wanted to do. I have always fancied myself running a cafe. The building became available and we went for it.
'Disgraceful' vandal-hit war memorial garden to get much-needed makeover

2 weeks ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

Families have welcomed plans to make improvements to a memorial garden which has become a magnet for anti-social behaviour. Tunstall Memorial Gardens, situated between the town centre and Tunstall Park, has become a hang out place for youths, drug users and the homeless. Weapons and drug paraphernalia are often found in the overgrown shrubbery and a pavilion has been the subject of vandalism and arson attacks.
Families fighting takeaway's 3am opening plan: 'It's like Piccadilly Circus'

3 weeks ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

Families living near a North Staffordshire takeaway do not want it to open any later. Newcastle Pizza initially applied to 'extend late-night refreshments' at Caprinos, in Liverpool Road, Newcastle, until 3am Sunday to Thursday and until 4am on Friday and Saturday. But after receiving an objection from Newcastle Borough Council's environmental protection team the applicant has agreed to compromise and now seeks permission to stay open until 2am Sunday to Thursday and 3am on Friday and Saturday.
New youth hub opens with fun day in Middleport

4 weeks ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

A Youth Hub was officially opened today in Middleport. The Block has been opened by Middleport Matters Community Trust to give young people a safe place to play games and hang out. The facility, on Middleport Park, was launched with a free family fun day from 11am to 3pm.
Football match to be held in memory of dad, 25, who lost brave cancer battle

1 month ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

Friends of a popular footballer who tragically lost his battle with cancer are to stage a fund-raising match for his family. Jaycee Roberts, of Fegg Hayes, was aged 25 when he passed away on March 31, leaving behind his partner Ella-Mae, three-year-old son Haulie-Jay, his mum Cath, dad Jason and sister Abbey. Now a football match is to be held in memory of the former Bradwell FC striker at Trubshaw Cross playing fields, off Westport Road, Burslem, this Sunday (May 25).
Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment

1 month ago | nature.com | Chris Stokes |Jonathan L. Bamber |Andrea Dutton

AbstractMass loss from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica has quadrupled since the 1990s and now represents the dominant source of global mean sea-level rise from the cryosphere. This has raised concerns about their future stability and focussed attention on the global mean temperature thresholds that might trigger more rapid retreat or even collapse, with renewed calls to meet the more ambitious target of the Paris Climate Agreement and limit warming to +1.5 °C above pre-industrial.
New leisure attraction opens in Hanley today with football, darts, pool and bar

1 month ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

Two friends are opening an indoor football centre in Hanley today. Chris Hall, business manager at Sandbach United Football Club, and the club's former chairman, Peter Colclough, are opening Kix FC in the former Macari Centre in Regent Road. The venue has a 3G indoor pitch measuring 30 metres by 13 metres, a bar, a cafe, pool table, football table, augmented darts, party rooms, and areas for street football games including kerby, wally and top bins.
Butcher slams council as drivers face £70 fines for stopping outside his shop

2 months ago | stokesentinel.co.uk | Jonathan L. Bamber

Traders have slammed council plans to fine drivers for pulling up outside their shops. Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants to turn part of Christchurch Street, in Fenton - between City Road and Baker Street - into its latest red route. It means any driver caught pulling over on the double-red lines will be fined £70. Allan Jones, aged 55, of Allan Jones Traditional Family Butchers, said: "I might as well shut. I put in my objections. They are saying it's due to congestion.