News in Biddulph

Up Close is an interview series for Biddulph Nub News, talking to local people about their businesses, hobbies, or anything else they want to chat about!

In the latest instalment of Up Close we spoke to Biddulph's Denise Robson about balancing her passion for baking with her tough job as a healthcare assistant at Congleton's War Memorial Hospital.

Biddulph's politicians and teachers have welcomed the Government's U-turn on A-Level results, but calls have been made to ensure vocational qualifications are also reassessed.

It comes after the decision was made yesterday (Monday), to revert students' exam results to teacher-assessed grades, rather than using an algorithm.

Police were present at Knowle Road on Saturday to recover a car that had been abandoned on the Biddulph street.

Officers arrived just before midday on Saturday, 15th August after being notified of the abandoned vehicle.

The Moorlands has returned to a week with no new Coronavirus deaths being recorded in the district, after one death was recorded last week.

Last week's death came after the district enjoyed two weeks with no deaths caused by the virus being recorded.

More than three million items of personal protective equipment (PPE) have been delivered to local organisations by Staffordshire County Council so far.

Emergency supplies of gloves, masks, gowns, aprons, safety glasses and visors have been distributed to care homes, care agencies carrying out home visits, schools, places of worship and to frontline council staff.

Brown Edge residents will soon return to having their own post office after the village had to make-do without the facility for several months.

Brown Edge Post Office will be reopening at Nisa on High Lane from Monday next week (August 24th).

Boxing fans can finally return to practising their right hooks from tomorrow, as Biddulph Boxing Gym returns to its indoor training sessions.

The gym has recently been running its training sessions outdoors to prevent the risk of Coronavirus, but have now announced that they will be moving back to their usual indoor sessions at Biddulph Youth and Community Zone from Tuesday, 18th August.

Police cars were spotted in Biddulph last night (Sunday, 16th August) after officers attended an incident on Fountain Court.

Police arrived on the street at around 7.45pm, with residents also saying that officers were at the scene over four hours later.

A Biddulph councillor and teacher has criticised the Government's handling of this year's A-Level results, saying that students and teachers have been left feeling "undermined and undervalued" by the controversial way that grades have been awarded.

Cllr Jill Salt, who teaches Health and Social Care at Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College and also sits on Biddulph Town Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, criticised the algorithm used to decide this year's A-Level results, and felt that working class students, or those from less prestigious schools, had been unfairly left behind.

Beauty Salons can finally reopen with close contact services in Biddulph from tomorrow (Saturday).

Initially these salons were meant to be reopening on August 1st, however these measures were pushed back for two weeks due to a rise in Coronavirus cases.