Stoke & Staffordshire

The video playlist

Watch our pick of standout clips from Stoke and Staffordshire

Weatherfor Stoke-on-Trent

Sport

BBC Sounds: From Stoke & Staffordshire

View more

Latest Updates

  1. A young woman with dark brown hair tied back is wearing a white shirt and black leather jacket and standing indoors. She is looking at the camera and has a hoop earring in each ear.

  3. Former Port Vale defender Leon Legge

  4. A woman in a black top with ginger hair in a pony tail stood behind a pub bar. She has glasses perched on her head

  5. The back of police officers, with yellow hi-vis jackets. There is a blue rectangle on the jackets with grey writing which reads "police" in capital letters.

  6. A police mugshot of a man with short black hair, a black beard and a grey top.

  7. A painting of an Aston Villa footballer wearing the club's claret and blue shirt

  8. Lisa Combes a woman with long blonde hair in a plait over her shoulder and a black shirt is smiling widely at the camera and standing behind a bar

  9. Hope gives way to resignation for stuttering Stoke

    Mark Elliott
    BBC Radio Stoke's Stoke City commentator

    Stoke City manager Mark Robins looks pensively into the distance from the touchlineGetty Images

    Stoke City manager Mark Robins took charge of the club 13 months ago

    Stoke City dominated the first half against Leicester City, threatened to fall apart in the second, and left the pitch simultaneously relieved and frustrated to have taken a point.

    Parallels can be drawn between this game and the season as a whole.

    A run which yielded 27 points from their first 14 games now looks like a start that will keep them out of trouble, rather than the platform for a promotion push that players, club and fans all hoped it would be.

    A total of just 17 points from 19 games since then has left everyone involved searching for answers.

    Over the past few weeks Stoke have been active in the transfer window, made a major change to the coaching staff, and experimented with personnel and formation, but wins continue to elude them.

    None of the January signings have made the instant impact the club would have hoped for, although injuries have played a part in that.

    The injury crisis Stoke have been dealing with for months has clearly played a huge part in a winless run which now stands at eight games in all competitions, but the players that are fit - even the ones forced to play out of position to cover for the absent players - must feel like they have the quality to have won matches during that run.

    The changes, signings and experimentation may yield results over time, but patience is a precious commodity when a team is averaging less than a point per game.

  10. A photo of a pothole in a road that has drawings on top of it. The drawings depict a dinosaur skeleton in the pothole, with two grave stones below it. Above the pothole are three fuzzy creatures - one pink, one blue and one green

  11. Jade Power-Vaughan, a woman wearing a green coat and a light-coloured top are standing next to a pink wooden shed which has a sign on that reads The Honest Slice.

  12. A woman with blonde wavy hair is wearing a black dress

  13. A black dog with a white stripe down the middle of its muzzle looks into the camera. A red lead goes from their neck out of sight. Behind them is a flooded path with rain droplets dotting the surface.

  14. Robins laments lack of second-half energy

    Stoke City boss Mark RobinsGetty Images

    Stoke have dropped to 15th in the Championship table having not won in seven games

    Boss Mark Robins said Stoke City lacked energy and quality in the 2-2 draw with Leicester City, but said his side are struggling to cope with the number of players missing through injury.

    Robins told BBC Radio Stoke that "poor execution and poor decision-making contributed to his side surrendering a 1-0 half-time lead.

    "We can be critical. I'm certainly critical," Robins added. "But on the other hand, we've got a group of players that have been put together now waiting for people to come back to give us that extra bit of quality, bit of depth and that ability to go and make changes to improve things.

    "Hopefully we can get the injured lads back really quickly because we need them.

    "Leicester have got better individuals than us, at present, and I thought we'd done brilliantly well to make it as difficult as possible.

    "In the second half, they tried to put us on the back foot and we allowed that to happen, and that was the frustration. There was a lack of energy in the second half."

  15. A football with National League branding

  16. A selection of footballs with EFL branding

  17. Two large viaducts being put into place over a railway line. There are cranes, earth-moving vehicles around the concrete bases of these huge, bridge-like structures.

  18. A dragon costume, with several colours and the mouth wide open. Buildings are blurred in the background.

  19. A man, in a wheelchair, is wearing a white cap, a burgundy-coloured T-shirt, shorts and orange trainers. He is wearing sunglasses and sitting near water.

  20. Three images side to side - left, A colourful tractor covered in lights drives between crowds of people; Middle - A group of children are sat on the floor engrossed by a story. The reader is holding out the open book so the kids can see a picture inside. A little girl with brown hair in the front row had a wide, open-mouthed smile; Right - John Niven laughing and looking out of the window in the Birmingham Rep theatre bar

  21. A West Midlands Railways train at a station platform. It has three carriages and is orange and purple. There is a bridge that goes over the railway lines from one platform to the other opposite

  22. A woman with brown skin and brown hair sat in a hospital chair with white pyjames and purple clouds

  23. Suzy, a woman sitting in front of a purple microphone, is in a radio studio with a photograph of Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent behind her. She has dark brown hair and is wearing a black leather jacket.

  24. Anthony Screen is standing by a light-coloured stone building with railings in front of it. He is wearing a grey suit with a white shirt and a brown tie and is smiling at the camera.