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£1.25m bail out to keep cash-strapped school open
ONE of the city's top-performing academies is to get a £1.25 million council handout so it can sponsor a school and save it from possible closure. Stoke-on-Trent City Council today defended the move,...
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Horse dies after falling into city river
A HORSE has died after falling into a river.Firefighters were called out to fields off Birches Head Road in Birches Head just before 10.55am this morning.But the crews – who had come from Newcastle,...
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The Way We Were: Elija Cotton's Nelson Pottery, in Hanley
MADAM, – I write regarding the article about Derrick Baddeley (The Way We Were, March 19).I worked at Elija Cotton's Nelson Pottery, in Hanley, from 1953 until it closed in the 1980s.I was in the...
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Who's been up in court? (Wednesday, April 20, 2016)
BIRCHES HEAD: Two men have pleaded guilty to using threatening words or behaviour on November 13. Samuel Brunt, aged 18, of Woodward Street, Birches Head, and Sheridan Brown, aged 22, of Casewell Road,...
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Campaigners win fight to stop former post office being turned...
FAMILIES have won their campaign to stop a former post office being turned into a takeaway. More than 70 people signed a petition and a further 24 wrote letters against plans to convert the old Birches...
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'I met my husband thanks to free ticket to The Place'
SUSAN Perry's mother had a quick assessment of the boy from the nation's capital who had just dropped off her daughter – "London? They're all murderers from down there!"But that was the night ,...
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Police sniffed out cannabis in vehicle on car park
POLICE noticed a strong smell of cannabis after spotting a vehicle on a car park in the early hours of the morning. North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard there were three men in the car, with the...
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Man died in hospital after being placed on life-support following...
THE mother of a 33-year-old man has paid tribute to her son after he died following a lengthy battle with alcoholism.Sheryl Sims described her son Steven as 'very much loved' after a coroner found his...
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The Way We Were: City of Stoke-on-Trent locomotive in the 70s
MADAM, – I read with interest the Museum Treasures article giving details of the locomotives that carried the name of the 'City of Stoke-on-Trent' (The Way We Were, July 9).There was a third locomotive...
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Valentine Clays starts work on new multi-million pound HQ in...
CONSTRUCTION has started on a clay manufacturer's new multi-million pound headquarters which will create 25 jobs.Valentine Clays revealed earlier this year it would be moving its operations from its...
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The Way We Were: Fishing and bonfires in Sneyd Green after World...
Reg Curwen shares his memories of building bonfires, fishing in the canal and teapot lid rides. By Colette WarbrookIN A scene captured more than seven decades ago, a group of young Potteries anglers...
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Couple's heartbreak after son, 2, dies from sepsis following...
Parents Rob and Lynette Schonau have spoken of their heartbreak after their two-year-old son died suddenly.Little Oscar Schonau had picked up chickenpox and appeared to be on the road to recovery.But...
View ArticleAppeal after 61-year-old assaulted in Central Forest Park in Hanley
The man was also struck by a baton while walking home from a night out
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The victim was left with a cut to his neck after being assaulted by a man armed with a knife and a baton
View ArticleWarning to stay out of Falcon Pottery building on Old Town Road
A 13-year-old was rushed to hospital after an accident in the building earlier this summer
View ArticleGCSEs 2017: Teens achieve good grades across Staffordshire and Cheshire...
The changes have seen new 9 to 1 grades replace the old A* to Gs in GCSE maths and English
View ArticleWW1: POW beaten and spat at in Germany
After being ordered to ‘fight to the last man’, Leonard Hancock was knocked unconscious and captured by the Germans...
View ArticleFriends to cycle 350 miles in the footsteps of Allied forces - despite not...
The Stoke-on-Trent duo are taking on the challenge to raise money for help for heroes
View ArticleThe real story of Burslem witch, Molly Leigh
Has Molly Leigh been cruelly smeared by legend, when in fact she was a kindly benefactor of Burslem and a champion of women's rights?
View ArticleRobber, 24, escaped from prison after getting 'through gap in the fence'
Defendant was on the run for two-and-a-half months before being found at house
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