Happy New Year and a Happiness Index

Magazine Leader – January 2011 “Happy New Year!” How do you know whether this proves to be the case? Can you measure a nation’s happiness, or an individual’s wellbeing? Recent public debates have drawn attention to how measuring economic activity doesn’t deliver all that we need to know. After all, it’s argued, it doesn’t take...

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Stone hosts unusual carol service

Stone will host an unusual carol service this Friday when singers, musicians and shoppers will parade through town singing the appropriate carol outside each shop that took part in the giant Advent calendar competition. Singers will meet outside the Shelter Charity Shop on Lichfield Street on Christmas Eve at 9.30am and make their way through...

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Big Issue Seller to Open Final Giant Advent Calendar Window

Stone’s giant Advent shop calendar reaches a climax next week when the town’s Big Issue saleswoman opens the final window on Christmas Eve. In the build-up to Christmas 24 shops, businesses and organisations have each decorated their shop on the theme of a carol, which will be unveiled on a different day in December, and...

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Oh Come All Ye Faithful (to The Mill)

Barry Lakin, a Friend of Mosty Lee Water Mill, was chosed to open the twelfth window in the Stone Advent Windows - at The Mill Restaurant. The excellent Nativity scene was prepared for The Mill by the Children of St. Domonic's First School, Stone. Some friends of The Mill and Christ Church gathered to see the opening at midday on Sunday, singing a rousing verse of...

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Customer, 101, to open giant Advent calendar window

Birchill and Watson have invited their oldest customer, 101-year-old Lilian Ward from Stone, to open their Advent shop window. In the build-up to Christmas 24 shops, businesses and organisations will each decorate their shop on the theme of a carol, which will be unveiled on a different day in December, and Mrs Ward will open...

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