Body Discovered at Old Yates Bar Hanley, Charging Points in the Midlands, Teenage Girl Assaulted in Newcastle

Staffordshire Police are extremely saddened to confirm that a body was located on Saturday inside a building on Brockley Square, Hanley, following a fire earlier this week.  A post-mortem will be held in due course to establish the cause of death and Officers are working to identify the deceased.  Police are working closely with Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service to understand the cause of the fire.  They are particularly keen to hear from any taxi drivers that may have been in the area of Brockley Square, near Trinity Street, in the early hours of the morning of Tuesday 12 March.  An online portal has been created where people can leave information and any CCTV or dashcam footage that they may have.

You can access the Major Incident Public Portal here:
https://mipp.police.uk/operation/STAFFS24L07-PO1
To report anonymously, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Charging electric vehicles is set to get even easier from today thanks to hundreds of millions of funding made available for Midlands local authorities, and residents.  The Government continues to deliver its £381 million Local Electric Vehicle (LEVI) fund to councils, which can choose where is best to install chargepoints in their local area. Following the approval of the first five local authority applications in February, payments to 44 additional councils have now been approved to help residents charge their vehicles, worth over £185m, including a payment of £5.2 million to Staffordshire County Council.  The announcement comes following the introduction of the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate into law earlier this year, which requires 80% of new cars and 70% of new vans sold in Great Britain to be zero emission by 2030, and 100% by 2035,

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Staffordshire Police are appealing for information after a man sexually assaulted a teenage girl in Newcastle-under-Lyme.  At around 6.25pm last Thursday afternoon a man attempted to steal the girl’s bicycle on Douglas Road before assaulting her.  The man is described as white, of slim build and around 5ft 6ins tall. He was wearing a black Stone Island tracksuit, gloves, a balaclava and black Adidas trainers. He was also carrying a grey bag.
Enquiries to identify the man are ongoing,  If you saw what happened or if you have any other information, please get in touch. With Police on 101, quoting incident 607 of 14 March, or message them using Live Chat on our website.

You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.