{"id":293375,"date":"2025-12-01T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293375\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:14:09","slug":"artist-behind-burslem-statue-of-lemmy-kilmister-receives-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293375\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist behind Burslem statue of Lemmy Kilmister receives award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twenty-seven awards were handed out to people in recognition of their contribution to Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire during Thursday&#8217;s ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among them was Nathan Walton, from Ashley Heath, who won the charity champion of the year award having raised more than \u00a31.5m for charity, including for hospice service provider Dougie Mac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told BBC Radio Stoke he was &#8220;surprised, humbled and a bit embarrassed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t do these things for the recognition,&#8221; he added, &#8220;but I&#8217;m absolutely made up to win it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Walton&#8217;s challenges included sleeping in a smart car for a week, taking part in the annual Strictly Knot Dancing event and running ultra-marathon across the Sahara Desert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had a high regard for the service Dougie Mac provided, particularly after they helped his mother when she became unwell three years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To see what they did only empowered me even more to carry on [with my charity work],&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-seven awards were handed out to people in recognition of their contribution to Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire during Thursday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-293375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}