Man found dead in Silverdale Park, Fifty500 Midlands Growth Corridor

A man was found dead in a Newcastle-under-Lyme park and a woman was arrested on suspicion of murder early on Sunday morning.

Officers were called to Queen Elizabeth Park on Silverdale Road, before 7.45, and sadly, the body of a man in his 50s was found at the scene.  A 30-year-old woman, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, was arrested on suspicion of murder, and police are ‘not looking for anyone else’ in connection with the incident after making the arrest.

If you have any information which could help police with their enquiries, call 101, quoting incident 168 of 3 March, or you can message them using Live Chat on the Staffordshire Police website.

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MPs have backed a £3m bid for government funding, submitted by Staffordshire County Council and partners, to further develop the Fifty500 Midlands Growth Corridor.

The bid, which was delivered to Downing Street last week, called on the government to allocate £3 million from the Spring 2024 budget to further the development of plans for a road, from Crewe to Nottingham.

Fifty500 is an initiative led by SCC to create highly skilled jobs and better transport links along the A50 and A500, linking global businesses and universities across Cheshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The £3 million of funding would allow the creation of plans for a regional supplier park, transfer of freight off the roads onto the railway, innovation centres to further the development of new products, developing net carbon zero business premises and the creation of a Midlands Industrial Energy Plan.