Stoke’s a kind kind of town

STOKE-ON-TRENT is the kindest place in the UK, a new study says. Residents of the Staffordshire city, which gave the world Robbie Williams, Sir Stanley Matthews and Anthea Turner, were found to be the most generous in Britain.

Craft company Cricut asked of 2,000 Britons which acts of kindness they had done recently, such as shopping for a neighbour or buying food for a homeless person. It found that 68 per cent of people from Stoke had performed at least three such acts in the past month.

Manchester was in second place, followed by Manchester, Glasgow, Oxford and Newcastle. Sheffield came bottom.