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Families launch petition to call for speed bumps on 'dangerous'...
WORRIED families are calling for traffic calming measures to be installed to stop boy racers speeding down their road. Residents living in Milton Road, Sneyd Green, claim reckless drivers are putting...
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The Way We Were: Music at the Victoria Hall in Hanley
MADAM, – I remember seeing Nat King Cole, inset, at the Victoria Hall in the 1950s, but I'm not sure of the exact date.When he sang, you could have heard a pin drop – it was fantastic.I also went there...
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The Way We Were: Gina Weatherall shares photos of the Potteries...
MADAM, – I have fantastic memories of the Potteries Marathon between 1982 and 2004 – I ran 20 of them.I was a member of Potteries Marathon Athletic Club (PMAC).One year, the lads built a boat on wheels...
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The Way We Were: Family snap at Hanley Park
MADAM, – Here is a photograph of me and my family enjoying a day out in Hanley Park.When there wasn't much money around, a simple visit to the cinema with friends or your children would make the day...
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Girl bitten by dog in Sneyd Green
MEDICS treated a girl for minor injuries after she was bitten by a dog.A first responder attended a home on Leek New Road, Sneyd Green, shortly after 10pm on Wednesday.The youngster did not require any...
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'Stop buying booze for your children' say police in crackdown on...
POLICE tackling anti-social behaviour linked to a new McDonald's restaurant are urging parents to stop buying booze for their children. The warning comes after complaints about drunk youngsters causing...
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Bomb disposal team investigate suspicious object
A BOMB disposal team has been called in to investigate a suspicious object found in the city this morning.Police have cordoned off an area around a walkway off Sneyd Street, between Sneyd Green and...
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Bomb squad called after 'suspicious object' spotted - which...
BOMB disposal experts were forced to shut off a walkway into a park after the discovery of a suspicious object – which turned out to be a firework. Staffordshire Police were called out to the stretch...
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City Council considering one-way system on Sneyd Green street...
CAMPAIGNING families are winning their fight to make their street safer after a council announced plans to look at introducing a one-way system. Residents living in Fitzherbert Road, Sneyd Green, say...
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Who's been up in court? The latest cases from North Staffordshire...
LONGTON THIRTY-three-year-old Kevin Burton has denied inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Marc Sutton on December 20. Burton, of Wolstern Road, Longton will re-appear at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court at...
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Staying positive and pink to beat cancer
MUM-OF-TWO Jackie Mackenzie was diagnosed with breast cancer last August after she started feeling a pain in her side. Initially told it was probably just a cyst or an abscess, the 46-year-old from...
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Customers can enjoy waitress service and one-touch orders at a...
WAITRESS service is being offered at Stoke-on-Trent's newest McDonald's branch – to try to beat the queues at the tills. Customers can place their orders on a touch screen, pay by card, pick up their...
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Big Issue: Should the UK get involved in the conflict in Syria?
After Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK wouldn't hesitate to launch more drone strikes in Syria, Michelle Chow asks if we should get drawn in... IT has been suggested that Prime Minister...
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Thug fractured man's skull with one punch
VIOLENT Nicholas Aitken left a man with a fractured skull and a blood clot on his brain after punching him outside a city nightclub. The 26-year-old hit truck driver Peter Durber once outside The...
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The Way We Were: Alvin Stardust, and Shane Fenton and The...
MADAM, – Recent letters regarding shows at the Victoria Hall, Hanley, got me thinking about a show I saw there around 1960.It featured Jimmy Jones, who had hits such as Handy Man and Good Timin'.The...
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MADAM, – With regard to the feature about cinemas in North Staffordshire, I wonder if any of your readers remember The Roxy in Hanley?It was in Glass Street, and I recall going there with my brother,...
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Sisters given national award after helping to care for brother
SISTERS Niaomi and Molly Owen have been honoured with a prestigious national award for helping to care for their little brother. The pair, who are members of The Boys' Brigade & Girls Association,...
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The Way We Were: Appealing for pictures of Stoke
MADAM, – As a regular reader of The Way We Were, I was prompted to add my own recollections after reading those of Joan Boulton (née Harvey), of Sneyd Green (September 19).As a young boy I too lived in...
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The Way We Were: Do you recognise any faces in football team...
MADAM, – This picture of Sneyd Green Primary School junior football team was taken in 1974 at Trubshaw Cross, when I was 10.I'm second on the left in the front row.I remember we won a trophy in a...
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Police patrols to combat a rise in trouble on estate
POLICE will be carrying out late-night patrols across an estate to tackle a rise in anti-social behaviour and under-age drinking. Families living at Norton Heights have reported groups of between 20...
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