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      <description>Two iconic names in Stoke‑on‑Trent ceramics are coming together to celebrate the industry’s past, present and future as a new pilot project launches at Gladstone Pottery Museum and Duchess China 1888.</description>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Libraries have worked with the National Literacy Trust to welcome families into the city’s libraries to celebrate World Book Day 2026.</description>
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      <title>​​​​​​​£5 million contract signed to transform Potteries Museum &amp;amp; Art Gallery</title>
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      <title>Lunar New Year celebrations return to Hanley for Year of the Horse</title>
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      <title>Local historian tells the Story of a City as Centenary book launches</title>
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      <description>A new book commissioned to mark Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary will be launched this week.</description>
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