Stone Life February/March 2014 | Page 5

EDITOR’S LETTER Lots to do as nights get lighter Deborah Boden Contents Editor [email protected] Sophie Cotton & Tracey Wardle Design & Production Jane Walters Advertising Manager [email protected] Tom Brian Advertising Sales [email protected] Times, Echo & Life Publications 18 Tape Street, Cheadle, Stoke-on-Trent ST10 1BD Tel: 01538 752214 www.timesechoandlife.co.uk [email protected] 15,200 copies of every issue delivered to households and businesses in Eccleshall, Stone, Trentham and the surrounding areas Front cover photo courtesy of Robert Cartwright. Tel. 01785 254283. www.ccstafford.co.uk elcome to the latest edition of Stone and Eccleshall Life magazine. Now well into 2014, we have successfully made it through another cold and miserable January and can now just about dare to look ahead to the first hits of spring. The nights are certainly showing signs of getting fractionally lighter as well as the months ahead holding some special dates to celebrate, its fair to say things are starting to look up. Check out our special features on Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day, helping with gift ideas, tasty recipes to try your hand at, as well as some original takes on how to show the special people in your life how much you care. Also in this edition we catch up with the Eccleshall baker whose business is cooking up a storm as well as two brave women from Stone based AMG Nursing and Care Services who are now sporting bald heads all in the name of charity. We have all our usual contributors offering their professional help and advice on a range of issues as well as a wonderful wedding feature for all of those newly engaged couples out there who are embarking on the exciting feat of planning their big day. Don’t forget to let us know if you have recently tied the knot like Caroline and Nick Perrin have done. See all the highlights in this edition from their beautifully exotic wedding held in Dubai last year. And if DIY is your thing this spring you definitely won’t want to miss our fantastic competition with a chance to win a pair of tickets to this years National Homebuilding and Renovating Show at the NEC, but remember you have to be in it to win it so get those entries sent in. So for now happy reading from myself and all the team here at Stone and Eccleshall Life. W Deborah x February/March 2014 5