Wolverhampton-born illustrator celebrates his latest comic releases having worked with Oscar-winning writer
From the moment Mike Perkins began reading comic books at an early age, he knew he wanted to go on and tell the stories himself.
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The Shrewsbury-based illustrator, who was born in Wolverhampton, has captivated readers worldwide with his stunning artwork and imaginative storytelling, and recently released a number of comic books.
The Batman: First Knight came out in November last year and is available in hardback, in book shops including Waterstones and others including HMV.
Mike also worked with well-known writer Garth Ennis to create 'Freddie The Fix' which was released in December and is already highly-rated, and has worked with Oscar-winning writer John Ridley to release Justice League: The Atom Project, with the second issue set to come out next week after the first released last month.
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He said: "I was always reading comics, from a very early age I was always picking up comics. It just stemmed from that and I always wanted to do it from when I started reading.
"I think that is where the love of it comes from. A
A statue of late Motörhead legend Lemmy will be unveiled in his birthplace of...
A statue of late Motörhead legend Lemmy will be unveiled in his birthplace of Stoke-on-Trent on International Motörhead Day.
As part of Motörhead’s 50th anniversary celebrations throughout 2025, a very special Lemmy Forever ashes event will take place with the unveiling of the Lemmy sculpture on Thursday 8th May.
After councillors gave the Lemmy statue the green light in February 2024, the bronze statue is now being created by acclaimed British sculptor Andy Edwards.
Located in Burslem’s Market Place, the 2.25m statue depicts Lemmy throwing an iconic stage pose in the 1980s.
Andy Edwards has previously created a series of famous sculptures including The Beatles on Liverpool’s Pier Head, The Bee Gees in Douglas, Brian Clough and Peter Taylor at Derby County’s Pride Park, and Sir Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen’s Pittodrie Stadium.
Dave the Driver uploaded the clip to the social media platform and made a substantial claim about the hill's steepness - but not everyone agreed with him in the viral video
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A TikToker has sparked a debate after claiming to have driven up the UK's steepest hill, where he alleges 10 people fail every day. The user, known as DavetheDriver, shared a video of his journey through Oakamoor, a village in Staffordshire, en route to Alton Towers theme park.
The footage shows Dave navigating a steep road after passing the Cricketer's Arms pub. As he continues, it becomes evident that the challenging stretch of road extends for quite a distance.
Throughout his ascent, Dave encounters several tight bends and corners with limited visibility of oncoming traffic. "This is the steepest road in the UK," he claimed in the video's caption, adding, "At least 10 cars every day fail to make it to the top,".
Since being posted on TikTok on Friday, September 27, the clip has garnered over 3.3 million views and approximately 143,800 likes. It's one of many videos Dave has shared on his account, with o
The centre will combine collections from the county museum, archives and William Salt Library.
A new £8.7m research and archive facility is due to open next month, council bosses have announced.
Staffordshire History Centre, on Eastgate Street in Stafford, will open on 6 November.
The local authority said the centre would be open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10:00 to 16:00.
It would include modern search rooms, strong rooms for archives and collections as well as a bright space for displays and exhibitions, the council added.
The new centre was part-funded by a grant of £4.8m from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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Staffordshire History Centre will combine three collections from the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire County Museum and the William Salt Library.
Visitors will be able to access archives and artefacts from the county’s past – while a new education and learning space will host schools, workshops and events.
A programme of activities and touring exhibitions will also take history into local communities across
Deborah McAndrew’s Bright Lights Over Bentilee recreates the local legend of a UFO sighting in the fields behind a housing estate in 1967
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For residents of the Bentilee housing estate in Stoke-on-Trent, once one of the largest in Europe and made up almost entirely of social housing, life had undoubtedly been tough.
But for a brief few moments, during one night more than 50 years ago, local people on the sprawling complex of semi-detached houses and cottage flats were “sprinkled with stardust” when dozens witnessed bright lights in the sky and what they believed to be a UFO landing in a nearby field.
The encounter on 2 September 1967, considered to be one of the UK’s greatest urban mysteries, is now being turned into a stage play by the dramatist and former Coronation Street actor Deborah McAndrew.
“When I first saw the archive news footage about the landing of a spaceship on the far fringe of this vast estate, I thought it was a spoof, but it’s not,” McAndrew said.
The playwright, who runs the company Claybody Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent w
The plans for green belt land have been recommended for approval by planning officers.
Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia
An investigation into the Staffordshire Moorlands legend of the Headless Horseman.
The Headless Horseman of the Staffordshire Moorlands is one of the best known pieces of folklore in the region, but where did it come from? Tracing the story of the horseman back through 650 years of local history, we uncover the shocking true story of medieval murder that lies at the heart of the spectre’s inspiration.
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These are stories that may initially present themselves in such a fantastically supernatural light that the idea of them belonging to actual history at first appears incredulous, and yet upon closer inspection, we may well discover that the details contained within them are so remarkably local that they conspire to suggest signs of something else entirely; the remnants of long-lost folk memories.
I believe that one such tale, and one that has captivated me ever since I first heard it in the Roebuck pub in Leek in late 2006, is that of the Headless Horseman of Butterton; the spectral, if somewhat sinister, jewel in the crown of Staffordshire Moorlands
Statue of Motörhead frontman Lemmy to be erected in his Staffordshire hometown 🤘
A statue of Motörhead frontman Lemmy will be erected in his hometown of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, after the council approved it.
Plans to erect a statue of Motörhead frontman Lemmy in the town where he was born have been approved by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
The 2.2 metre statue will be erected in the market place of Burslem, the town where Lemmy – real name Ian Fraser Kilmister – was born before his family moved to Newcastle-under-Lyme. The majority of the singer’s childhood was spent in Wales before founding Motörhead in 1975.
The statue is estimated to cost about £50,000 and a fundraising campaign has been launched to raise the necessary funds. Once the project has obtained funding, the statue will be made from Staffordshire clay by local sculptor Andy Edwards, the same artist who created the world-famous Beatles statue on Liverpool’s waterfront.
There had been concern from police that the statue would attract “good-natured but potentially incident generating attention”, but Edwards agreed to increase the height of the plinth from 2.5m to 3m to get around this.
This won’t be the only stat
