Some people go to extraordinary lengths to make sure their pets have a holiday when they go away.

BBC Radio Stoke's Leek reporter Ros Chimes shows off her tone-deaf regional accents.

After building a Breakfast ark, Helen Thomas returns to the water with a more modest affair.

Stuart George spoke to Lillian Jones from Burslem, who reckons her singing has the X Factor.

Paul Larcomb from Crewe has become one of the top 10 Elvis impersonators in the world.

BBC Radio Stoke's Den Siegertsz discovers if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Nicola Cockburn, who's blind, is walking 200 miles along canal towpaths from Vale Park to London.

Anisha's goldfish died because she showed them too much love!

Stuart George wonders why secretaries need a week, and what they're going to do with it.

Local clinics are getting a new sense of direction - with a bit of help from a compass.

Stoke-on-Trent's annual health check is out. Find out what our Public Health Director had to say.

Will you be putting on your Sunday best and heading towards your nearest place of worship?

BBC Radio Stoke's Port Vale pundit Jon McCarthy talks about the departure of Martin Foyle.

Stoke-on-Trent and Keele both appear on a new edition of the board game Monopoly.

Not the pop star - she's 19 foot long, eats bunnies for breakfast and can cuddle you to death.

It's very easy to be two-faced with mobile phones and the internet, but why do people do it?

Susan Moyes owns an apartment two floors above the one the McCanns stayed in.

Stuart Davidson's blog complains that police officers spend too much time doing paperwork.

Listen to Anjali Pathak's tips for eating & cooking in the most fun festival in the Hindu calendar

Port Vale manager Dean Glover talks to BBC Sport about the hard times the club is going through

Members of Eccleshall Women's Rugby Club are taking a trip to Paris for the World Cup Final

Parts of Stoke-on-Trent are among the poorest in the UK. Cllr Ken Downs spoke to BBC Radio Stoke

How hard is it to make a recorder sound like a musical instrument rather than a torture device?

Jenny McGregor takes a trip around the A50 roundabout near Blythe Bridge with a lorry driver...

A middle-aged professor at Keele University makes music that's anything but middle of the road.

Stuart George uncovers some of the excuses people use to get out of things they don't want to do.

Alison Poole and Mary Potts discuss life after getting herceptin on the NHS.

Mary & Maureen told Paula White how they pay for people to go to Lourdes, using the fund

Dave Clarke is practising to row a boat single-handed across the Atlantic... on Rudyard Lake nr Leek

Why did a Jehovah's Witness refuse a transfusion? Darren Smith explained to the BBC's Stuart George

St. John's - a historic church in Hanley - could be knocked down unless a buyer is found.

Astronomers at Keele University have found 3 new planets which they've named Wasp 3, 4, and 5.

Hear the BBC's Leek reporter Ros Chimes describe the grisly stories of the Moorlands' Mermaid Pool

Businessman Tim Prevett brings Crewe's myths and mysteries to life in a ghost walk.

Nick Robins chats with Irish megastars Daniel O'Donnell and Mary Duff.

Paula White speaks to Claire Keen - a mum who witnessed a firework flying into a public play-area...

Stoke on Trent School Closures consultation meetings are over. Pete Morgan spoke to Ian McLaughlan

Cage fighter Ross Pointon from Stoke talks about his fight in Cage Rage at Wembley Arena.

Could a new logo help change Stoke-on-Trent's image? The elected mayor Mark Meredith thinks it will.

Deb Klemperer tells BBC Radio's Helen Thomas about John Rhodes VC, who died in World War One

Deb Klemperer from the Potteries Museum spoke to reporter Jessica Lane about the Local History Store

Phil Taylor says his victory in the Grand Slam of Darts was the perfect way to answer his critics.

Maurice Greenham has had HIV since 1984. He explains how he's got used to living with the illness.

Jessica Lane finds out about stuffed animals in storage at the Potteries Museum...

Jacky Newcomb from Staffordshire spoke to Stuart George about near-death experiences - and angels

While Tony Blair may be converting to Catholicism, Stoke South MP Rob Flello definitely is...

At N Staffs' Lawton Hall in the 1850's, a bullfinch learnt to whistle the National Anthem....

BBC Correspondent, Alan Johnston, spent 114 days as a hostage in Gaza. He spoke to Stuart George

They give you priceless moments but have you ever wondered how much it costs to raise a child?

Disgraced paediatrician, David Southall, who was struck off the medical register, speaks out...

In a classic rags to riches story, Mo Iqbal has sold his tile company for £12 million.

Breakfast Show presenter Pete Morgan hears about the pockets of snow around Staffordshire.

BBC Radio Stoke's Natalie Sands went to the Hindu Cultural Centre's Diwali night

As the situation in Pakistan worsens, local Pakistanis worry for their families back there

Staffordshire Uni student Michaela Johns has all the answers, and sings them - for Children In Need

Port Vale's new manager Lee Sinnott looks ahead to the FA Cup...

More than 350 police officers took part in anti-drugs raids. Our reporter Helen Thomas was there.

Julia Hubbard hopes to make the Winter Olympics after winning a place in the British bobsleigh team.

Tim Wedgwood goes recycling in Congleton... turning jeans into sandals!

Den visits a beauty parlour to get a facial treatment! It's too late, of course!

Stuart George thinks he might be the man for a £75,000 job, selling Stoke on Trent to the world.

Giggling twins Sam and Amanda Marchant, from Knutton, finished as runners-up in Big Brother 8.

Breakfast's Stuart George and Anisha Shah try their hand at writing lonely hearts ads...

Stuart George spoke to Carl, who's 18 and doing a modern apprenticeship as a painter and decorator.

Developers say much of an arson-plagued former factory in Burslem will soon be demolished.

A celebration of animal unity - or a doggie wedding to you and me. It is the silly season after all.

A local family are using their summer holiday to highlight the plight of Madeleine McCann.

Shocking figures reveal that 1/3 of drivers involved in road accidents are under 25.

What would you do if you found out the latest addition to your family had a disability?

Anisha Shah met a mother whose son died in a road accident. She says the pain never eases.

What would make a teenager think twice about their safety before getting into a car?

Breakfast reporter Helen Thomas finds out more about the charity that helps unwanted parrots.

Breakfast Show reporter Helen Thomas is finally outed as a secret Donny Osmond fan.

Our very own Indiana Jones, Den Siegertsz, visits a farm in his search for the meaning of proverbs.

Den Siegertsz takes a trip to south Cheshire to meet the worm charming champion of the world.

Den Siegertsz goes to see a lady for whom the above saying has never been more apt.

Den Siegertsz chats with Chris Brown - a practicing pagan - about demonic possession!

Den Siegertsz thinks that proverbs based on the weather are completely unreliable.

Anisha met up with local scouts as part of a world celebration to mark their centenary.

On the Breakfast Show, Stuart George wonders if a mispronunciation ever got you into trouble?

One teacher's seen several pupils grow up and blossom into young adults only to lose their lives.

It's not just Wimbledon, local cricket has become another casualty of the recent bad weather.

Stuart George wonders whether there're any subjects that wouldn't work as a soap opera.

Ann's road has been closed off by anti-terror police. She says her life's been turned upside down.