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Season’s Greetings Review

An extended family combined with Christmas chaos, creates comedy gold in Season's Greetings at the New Vic theatre thanks to genius Alan Ayckbourn. As Christmas Eve gets underway finishing touches to the decorations at Neville (Matt Addis)…
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Spode Works for DUST Rising 2019

DUST Rising (DR19) presents a compelling exhibition of contemporary visual art that highlights the old Meadows building at the heart of the iconic Spode Works, in Stoke-on- Trent. DR19 is a contemporary visual arts event by DUST Rising,…
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CounterCoin begins bearing fruit

The founders of innovative volunteer reward scheme - CounterCoin - are inviting members of the public and business community to put on their wellies and pick up their gardening spades in a bid to help reduce North Staffordshire’s carbon footprint. CounterCoin…
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Stoke A Love Story

Two local theatre makers are staging a new show which will have you falling in love with the City of Stoke-on-Trent. "Stoke a Love story" which has been written and directed by local theatre makers Kat Boon, from Penkhull, and Kat Hughes, from…
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Inspirational Quotes Decorate Furniture Mine

YOUNG people from Stoke-on-Trent have decorated the indoors of the largest reuse furniture store in North Staffordshire as part of a community project. Members of a National Citizen Service (NCS) group spent hours fundraising for paint and…
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Young Market Traders Pitch for National Success

Two entrepreneurs who ran their own stalls on the Borough Council’s first young traders market, in Newcastle-under-Lyme are in with a chance of being crowned “national young trader of the year” and winning £500. Rebecca Jones and Fay…
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FUND to REVITALISE Newcastle-under-Lyme high street

Newcastle-under-Lyme is to benefit from a share of a £1 billion fund to revitalise the nation’s high streets. The Government has announced that the Borough Council has progressed to the next stage of the Future High Street Fund - a hugely…
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Support Group seeking Parents Stories

A fast-growing support group is seeking real life stories for a fundraising book offering advice to parents with children with special needs and disabilities. Parent engagement in Stoke (PEGIS) was started five years ago by a group of parents…
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Council Acts on Climate Change

Measures aimed at making Newcastle-under-Lyme “carbon neutral” in little more than a decade are moving forward. The Borough Council is stepping up its efforts on the green agenda in a move which should increase the pace at which the area’s…
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Funding to expand Arts Programme

Staffordshire’s New Vic Theatre has been awarded an Arts Council England grant to expand the work of award-winning arts programme Appetite. A grant of £1,750,000 has been awarded to a local consortium, led by New Vic Theatre, as part of…
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Scouts Bid for the Record Books

Youngsters from Newcastle-under-Lyme are keeping their fingers crossed that they could enter the Guinness Book of World Records. They attempted to create the largest ever human fleur-de-lis whilst taking part in a scout camp in Kibblestone,…