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      <title> £3.3 million of unsafe and illegal goods seized by trading standards in last financial year</title>
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      <title>Plans for the first of two new war memorials to honour Burslem’s fallen set to be unveiled</title>
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      <title>‘Outlaw poet’ takes up Stoke-on-Trent Poet Laureate role</title>
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      <description>Poet Steven Beattie has officially taken up the role of Stoke-on-Trent Poet Laureate following a handover event with outgoing laureate Nick Degg.</description>
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      <title>Hotel closes to asylum seekers as numbers accommodated in city drops by a quarter</title>
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      <description>Three charities have been awarded a share of £15,884.49 thanks to the fundraising efforts of Stoke-on-Trent’s former Lord Mayor.</description>
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      <title> Persistent illegal tobacco sellers ordered to close by Trading Standards team</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council is continuing its drive towards greener, cleaner and healthier roads with the installation of six more public Electric Vehicle (EV) charging sockets in the city.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Nationally important Bronze Age gold Treasure secured for city museum</title>
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      <description>A £150,000 appeal to secure a rare Bronze Age gold artefact discovered in Staffordshire has successfully kept the treasure in the county.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 09:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent’s world record-breaking Big Centenary Tea Party is being brought back to life in a new free exhibition at Stoke Minster.</description>
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