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      <title>Local restaurant found guilty of food safety offences after city council investigation</title>
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      <description>The customer had ordered a meal from Ali's Kitchen in Dresden after advising staff of their allergy.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 14:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New enterprise centre opens in Stoke-on-Trent</title>
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      <title>City council helps businesses create apprenticeships  </title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent shared £63,000 with 15 businesses and organisations in the city last year to help them create 37 new apprenticeships.  </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>  Trading standards team investigate underage sales of disposable vapes and alcohol</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Interest-free loans for businesses to cut bills and energy emissions </title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Stoke-on-Trent Trading Standards seize counterfeit football shirts</title>
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      <description>A total of 178 fake football items were found, including tops, strips and tracksuits.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Closure order served by council on Stoke-on-Trent vape shop</title>
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      <description>Following investigations by Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s trading standards team Suli’s Vapes will now be closed for a minimum of 3 months.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title> Start-up secures new business grant through city council’s UKSPF funding</title>
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      <description>A start-up business has secured a grant from a new scheme to help kick-start the organisation and invest in its people. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 17:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Apprenticeship Levy helping to boost the city’s skills pool</title>
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      <description>As part of its drive to create more apprenticeship opportunities for local people, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has provided almost £100k of funding for apprentices at local engineering firm KMF.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Thousands of cigarettes seized in major crackdown land culprits in court</title>
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