The Staffordshire Signal Weekly: Tunstall Library's flats plan is scrapped, Stoke's overspend hits £10.8m, and 3,000 poppies for the Spitfire

Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 07:03

Tunstall Library's regeneration deal collapses, Stoke-on-Trent's overspend climbs to £10.8m, and 3,000 crocheted poppies fill the Spitfire Gallery. This week in The Staffordshire Signal Weekly.

The Staffordshire Signal Weekly: Tunstall Library's flats plan is scrapped, Stoke's overspend hits £10.8m, and 3,000 poppies for the Spitfire

Dear readers,

It's Armistice Day, and if you're reading this with a cuppa at 11 o'clock, take a moment. Over at the Potteries Museum, Let's Make Jam WI have wrapped the city's Spitfire in more than 3,000 hand-crocheted poppies, and it's well worth seeing before it comes down on Sunday.

This week, the plan to turn Tunstall Library and Baths into flats has been scrapped, Stoke-on-Trent's overspend has grown to £10.8m, and Strictly Knot Dancing has smashed through £200,000 for Dougie Mac. Our Christmas light switch-on guide is out too, so you can plan your weekends and where to get your first mulled wine.

And some news of our own. The Staffordshire Signal has been awarded £51,434 from the government's Local News Fund, our first ever outside funding, and one of just 50 news organisations across England and Wales to get it. It's paying for Signal TV, a weekly podcast and a free app, all launching in the new year. Thank you for reading every week, you're a big part of why it happened.

Until next Wednesday.

Jenna


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