Engineers have been called in after water on a stretch of North Staffordshire canal plummeted. Locals had spotted the levels had dramatically fallen at the Trent and Mersey Canal through Stone.

Improvement to roads, bus services and cycle routes across Staffordshire all feature in a new transport plan. Stoke-on-Trent ...

And sent a petition to parliament to set up a company to build the Trent and Mersey canal. But there was a problem. The route of the waterway took it through the rolling hills of Staffordshire.' ...