Stoke Town Centre is home to the Kings Hall which is a popular venue for events ranging from craft and antique fairs to sporting events and Northern Soul nights. The Kings Hall was used as a film location for Northern Soul film Soulboy. Famous fathers of the pottery industry Josiah Wedgwood and Josiah Spode are buried within the grounds of Stoke Minster.

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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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Tom Dick and Harry – Review

Tom, Dick and Harry at the New Vic - a play which grabs you from the start and doesn’t let go - even when you have left the theatre in the round… Review by Baba’s Editor and Founder Sonya Farrall. 5* Set in a 1943 prisoner of war camp…
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Men Unite receive financial boost to help with mental health services

A growing men’s mental health support group based in North Staffordshire has received a major financial boost thanks to bereaved families from Newcastle- under-Lyme. The Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM) has donated…