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      <title>Steps taken to protect the future of early years provision in Bentilee</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council are taking steps to secure high quality early years and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision for families in the city. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>£4.7 million support to increase fire safety in high-rise flat blocks</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council is accelerating fire safety improvements in high-rise blocks across the city. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>City Council set to invest more than £7 million to help ensure high quality adult social care</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council is set to agree a multi-million-pound package to support high quality care for adults who need it the most and maintain high performance across its range of care providers.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Potteries Museum to get new foyer café bar in £5 million revamp</title>
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      <description>The Potteries Museum &amp;amp; Art Gallery will open a new fully licensed café bar as part of its £5 million transformation, creating a more welcoming and flexible space at the museum’s main entrance.</description>
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      <title>Work to begin on multi-million-pound Burslem Market Hall regeneration project</title>
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      <description>Multi-million-pound transformation work is starting on Burslem Market Hall as part of the council’s commitment to help safeguard and bring back into use the city’s most treasured heritage buildings.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New action plan to help city’s drains cope with heavier rainfall</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council has set out a new action plan to help the city’s drainage system cope with heavier rainfall and reduce the risk of flooding.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New head of adult social care and all-age commissioning appointed</title>
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      <description>The city council has appointed its new head of adult social care services for Stoke-on-Trent.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>£14,000 of illegal tobacco seized in latest crackdown</title>
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      <description>The city council’s trading standards team with partners have carried out an enforcement exercise to tackle the supply of illegal tobacco in Stoke-on-Trent.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Council orders clear up of Longport waste site</title>
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      <description>The council has served an Enforcement Notice requiring all waste operations on the site to cease.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Throw Down ceramics inspired by Stoke-on-Trent on display at Gladstone Pottery Museum</title>
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      <description>Ceramic pieces inspired by Stoke-on-Trent’s industrial heritage - and created in the latest series of The Great Pottery Throw Down - are now on display at Gladstone Pottery Museum.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Employers invited to strengthen financial wellbeing with new ‘Pledge Day’ initiative</title>
      <link>https://www.stoke.gov.uk/news/article/2047/employers_invited_to_strengthen_financial_wellbeing_with_new_pledge_day_initiative</link>
      <description>Employers across Stoke-on-Trent are being invited to take a simple but powerful step to support their workforce as the city prepares for its first Credit Union Employer Pledge Day. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>£2.8 million funding boost to help change lives of disadvantaged people in the city</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent has been awarded just under £2.8 million of government funding to help disadvantaged and vulnerable adults improve their life chances.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>City council launches new strategy to support children in education</title>
      <link>https://www.stoke.gov.uk/news/article/2045/city_council_launches_new_strategy_to_support_children_in_education</link>
      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council has set out ambitious new targets to raise school standards, improve attendance and give every child a better start in life. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Council sets out plans to protect wildlife and improve access to nature</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council has set out new plans to protect wildlife, restore natural habitats and improve access to green spaces across the city.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Housing repairs loans set to be offered to residents</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent residents could soon be able to access affordable home-improvement loans to help them make essential repairs and adaptations to their properties.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>More than 2,000 employees benefit from Social Care Academy in first 12 months</title>
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      <description>More than 2,000 people who care for adults across Staffordshire and Stoke‑on‑Trent have now signed up to access training through a new learning platform.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Draft Packmoor masterplan draws on key priorities set out by residents in wide-ranging engagement</title>
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      <description>People are being invited to have their say on a new draft masterplan for Packmoor, marking an important step in shaping the future of their community.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>£105 million investment to fix roads, improve buses and connect Stoke-on-Trent</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent is set to benefit from more than £105 million of new transport investment - delivering better roads, more reliable buses, and safer walking and cycling routes across the city.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>New lighting to highlight historic grade II listed Stoke Minster</title>
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      <description>New lighting will be installed at Stoke Minster to showcase one of the city’s most historic buildings.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Contractors set to be appointed to deliver major refurbishment of council-owned high-rise blocks</title>
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      <description>Two tower blocks in Stoke-on-Trent are set to be extensively refurbished as part of a multi-million-pound project to provide dozens of high-quality social homes. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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