Archive - The Knot

Great British Food Festival Back at Trentham 🍝

Plus Foundry Festival champions local music (02 & 03/05), Wartime in the Potteries at Middleport (09/05) and Tunstall's Great Bear Gallery shows local…

Apr 7 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

Stamford Bridge Hears the Vale Roar ⚽️

Plus Princess Royal opens Nacro's Stoke Education Centre, work begins on Burslem Market Hall, and Staffy Trail set to generate £600,000 for the local…

Apr 6 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

March 2026

Celebrate World Circus Day at the Astley Centre

Plus join April events with Staffs Wildlife Trust, easter egg hunt at Apedale railway, commemorate Earth Day at Middleport, and book a ceramics talk at…

Mar 31 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

£2.8 million to Help Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Adults in Stoke-on-Trent

Plus the Best Western in Hanley goes up for sale, new initiative for young entrepreneurs, helpful bears support children's wellbeing, and new clothing…

Mar 30 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

Waving the Flag for Fine Dining in Stoke

Cris Cohen's latest venture, H I D D E N, takes diners on a cool culinary adventure, with a different theme each season - and the chance to meet new…

Mar 25 • Helen Dalley and The Knot

Longton Carnival & Pig Walk Parade is Back 🐷

Plus celebrate Easter at Gladstone, catch the Lady Boys of Bangkok at Trentham (24/04) and Stoke's first-ever Stoke Craft Brew Festival at King's Hall…

Mar 24 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

Have your say on the Spode Works Revamp

Mar 23 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

Visit Wedgwood's New Play Space this Easter

Plus Robbie Williams tribute at Victoria Hall (04/04), Staffordshire Archaeology Day (18/04) & Wildlings playgroup with Staffs Wildlife Trust at…

Mar 17 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

New Ceramics Experience Opens in Stoke

Plus Port Vale celebrate FA Cup win, extra £10m for SEND pupils in Staffs, students take anti-racism manifesto to Westminster, and three AA rosettes for…

Mar 16 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

What next for The Knot? pt. 2

I’ve always seen a future where The Knot lives in print form as a free paper, well designed, easy to read, not full of advertorials - distributed to…

Mar 11 • James Routledge

Celebrate What's Possible at the King's Hall

Plus Castle Classics is back (28/03), walk with the Trent Rivers Trust in March, Josh Widdicombe at the Regent (18/04) and the music of the Lord of the…

Mar 10 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

Longton, Newcastle and Leek in Race for UK Town of Culture 2028

Plus night shelter opens in Burslem, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery re-opens, steel man returns home, and a Japanese restaurant is set to open at…

Mar 9 • The Knot and Helen Dalley

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