By Luke Mallett: : Stoke City and Port Vale stars are being used to highlight the dangers of deliberately starting grass fires.

The Staffordshire Fire & Rescue campaign hopes to cut the number of grass fires started by children and teenagers at Easter.

By Chris Edwards & Rik Packer: Construction of Hanley’s new £6million fire station is “ahead of target”.

The project which was scheduled for completion on July 15 could now be ready as early as the end of June.

The new site boasts a number of modern training facilities, such as a foam pit, a fire house and – once the temporary building is demolished – a training area for road traffic incidents.

By Kirsty Hewson: Staffordshire fire chiefs say a new campaign called ‘Stand by your Pan’ was launched after a shocking rise in cooking-related house fires.

The county’s fire crews were called to 1,057 house fires between April and December 2010 – with a staggering 52% of those caused by cooking.

By Naomi Herring: Staffordshire fire crews buried a time capsule in Hanley this week as a long lasting farewell to their old fire station.

The capsule contained a number of items including a DVD produced by children from St Luke’s Primary School about their view of life in 50 years time.

By Lee Kettle: Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a house in Meir.

The incident, which happened on Kingsdale Close at 4.10pm yesterday (March 7), started when cooking was left unattended and caused severe smoke damage through the property and damaged several appliances.

Nobody was injured in the blaze, although the residents of the house had attempted to re-enter the property to extinguish the fire themselves before calling 999.

Terça-feira gorda is Brazillian for ‘Fat Tuesday’ but in England, it is known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. Thousands across Staffordshire will be cooking, tossing and eating pancakes as well as taking part in traditional pancake races. StaffLive reporter Siobhan Congreve finds out more.

By Carlie Martin: Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service launched a competition to find the funniest picture of anyone, or anything, pushing a smoke alarm button.

The team at the Fire and Rescue service want local residents to ‘push their buttons’, and take the most amusing and imaginative photograph that they can think of.

By Siobhan Congreve: Fire chiefs are spreading awareness of domestic sprinklers to try and save lives in Staffordshire’s homes.

A seminar was held to show the benefits to developers of residential properties, including councils and housing associations.

By Rachel Wood: Staffordshire fire chiefs want residents and businesses to have their say on how to breath new life into Longton Fire Station .

The station, on Uttoxeter Road, is one of 11 selected to be rebuilt under a £50 million Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme.

By Emma Glanfield and Beth Hepple: Pictures of a Stoke-on-Trent property destroyed by fire have shown just how lucky three students were to escape alive.

StaffsLive has been given an exclusive look inside the Leek Road property which was gutted after the blaze on November 6.

The fire – which police are treating as unexplained – has caused around £80,000 worth of damage to the house.