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Season’s Greetings Review

An extended family combined with Christmas chaos, creates comedy gold in Season's Greetings at the New Vic theatre thanks to genius Alan Ayckbourn. As Christmas Eve gets underway finishing touches to the decorations at Neville (Matt Addis)…
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£300,000 funding secured for Stoke-on-Trent Libraries

Libraries across Stoke-on-Trent are set to benefit after Stoke-on-Trent City Council secured £300,000 of funding. A successful application to the Arts Council England Libraries Improvement Fund, will be used to improve digital infrastructure…
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Multi-million Pound Veterinary School Building at Keele University

A new multi-million pound veterinary school building has been officially opened at Keele University. The building is already home to hundreds of students who are benefiting from its high-quality facilities as they train to become the next generation…
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Stoke-on-Trent Young Musician 2023 winners announced

Stoke-on-Trent Young Musician 2023 winners have been announced. Organised by the Stoke-on-Trent City Council run City Music Service, the competition was split into two categories, Junior, up to and including year eight and Senior, year nine…
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Makers Market to return to Gladstone Pottery Museum

GLADSTONE Pottery Museum is to host a second Ceramics Makers Market following an initial popular event which took place earlier this year. The Makers Market was the first of its kind in over 10 years at the Museum and saw more than 2000 people…
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Newcastle-under-Lyme Chess Club launch online tournament

A North Staffordshire chess club is launching their own online tournament following recent successes. Newcastle-under-Lyme Chess Club have already been reaching all four corners of the globe since forming an online team in January 2023. Currently…
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Jojo’s Chip Shop ahead of the game in cutting out plastics

A multi-award-winning Staffordshire fish and chip shop has ditched single use trays and cutlery for good, ahead of a nationwide ban on single-use plastic. John Evans, owner of Jojo's in Stafford, has turned his back on polluting plastic waste…
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New Vic looking to the Future thanks to support from the Denise Coates Foundation

The New Vic Theatre has welcomed the backing of the Denise Coates Foundation for its vision for the local theatre to be one of the top ten reasons to live and work in Stoke-on Trent and North Staffordshire. The Denise Coates Foundation will…
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Quality Street at the New Vic Review

Northern Broadsides are no strangers to the New Vic theatre, so it is great to see them back with their latest production, Quality Street. Review by Mel Osborne Originally planned to play before Covid this long awaited show was written by…
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International Women’s Day – REVIEW

@ BabaBaboon we publish many reviews...reviews from theatre & entertainment & sometimes other businesses too! Today this review is a little different and is a little blog about International Women’s Day 2023 - by our Founder &…
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Pop-up cinema to take over Goods Yard signal box for worthy cause

A FORMER railway signal box in Stoke-on-Trent will open to the public for the first time in over 30 years, with a charity pop-up mini-cini set to take over. For one weekend only, the Signal Box doors at Capital&Centric’s Goods Yard neighbourhood…
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