Staffordshire

The future of the NAJ

What is your history in the jewellery industry? You may not know, but I started on the shop floor as a Saturday girl and worked up to store manager with the support of a wonderful employer. From this rather lucky start and introduction to the jewellery industry, I studied hard…

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Women’s Jewellery Network announces new ambassadors

The Women’s Jewellery Network (WJN) has announced its new cohort of ambassadors. It follows an extensive process which saw more than 100 applicants and 28 days of interviews. Commenting on the launch, MD Victoria McKay said: “This has been a truly humbling, inspiring and challenging process. We were overwhelmed by…

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Domino strengthens its marketing team

Domino Jewellery has announced the appointment of Danny Wilkinson as a marketing executive with the responsibility for expanding the company’s digital programme including the management of its social media, e-shots and blogs. Wilkinson, who has a degree in Sports PR and Journalism from Staffordshire University, joins Domino from the timber…

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Crime gang jailed over £3m jewellery raids

Members of a Romanian crime gang have been jailed for a series of burglaries on jewellers, in which some £3.1m worth of jewellery was stolen. The six men have been jailed for a total of 47 years for conspiring to commit burglaries at jewellers across nine different counties in the…

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Earliest example of Iron Age gold jewellery found in Staffordshire

The earliest example of Iron Age gold jewellery in Britain has been found in a farmland field in Staffordshire. The collection, which has been named the Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs, was discovered by two metal detectorists – Mark Hambleton and Joa Kania – just before Christmas. At an unveiling on…

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£400,000 worth of watches stolen in Stoke-on-Trent jewellery store raid

Some £400,000 worth of watches have been stolen in a raid on a Beaverbrooks store in Stoke-on-Trent. Staffordshire Police said they believe 10 people were involved in the burglary, which happened just after 2:35am on Thursday, 10 March, at the Intu Potteries shopping centre in Hanley. The offenders, who were…

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Weston Beamor launches ‘Staffordshire Hoard’ collection

Birmingham casting house and CAD specialist Weston Beamor has released a collection of jewellery based on ‘The Staffordshire Hoard’.  The Hoard is a collection of over 4,000 Anglo-Saxon treasure objects in gold and silver which was found in a field near Lichfield, Staffordshire, in 2009. The pieces are now jointly…

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VIDEO: Axe-wielding raiders smash into Beaverbrooks

Three axe-wielding masked men who smashed their way into Beaverbrooks have been caught on video by an eye witness.  The raid took place in broad daylight in the Potteries Shopping Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, at 10:50am yesterday, Monday November 17, and the raiders are believed to have made off with a quantity of…

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