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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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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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Belong appoints Head of People

Not-for-profit care village operator Belong, which has a location on Lower Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, has appointed HR specialist Maggie Wallace as Head of People - with the aim of attracting, inspiring and retaining the sector’s most talented…
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Denise Coates Foundation supports local students

Staffordshire University has received a generous donation from the Denise Coates Foundation to help transform the lives of local students. The charity, founded by bet365 CEO and honorary doctor Denise Coates, is the longest standing major…
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Tunnel Visions – Art Trail for Kidsgrove Canal

Explore, experience and get involved in Kidsgrove’s freshest FREE art trail, boasting a wonderful range of paintings, photographs, sculpture, prints and mixed-media. A Staffordshire University BA Fine Art students, Appetite and the Canal…
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World Book Day at Stoke-on-Trent Libraries

A host of very special storytelling sessions have been organised to celebrate World Book Day across Stoke-on-Trent libraries. Six sessions will take place across all of the library sites on Saturday 4 March to mark the annual celebration of…
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Research and education in spotlight as Staffordshire University Pro-Vice Chancellor meets with the President of Pakistan

Staffordshire University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Raheel Nawaz PFHEA NTF, met with Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi to discuss Artificial Intelligence, and Higher Education. He presented the President with a copy of his latest…
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Celebration of Local Heroes in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Community heroes are to be honoured for the first time in a local awards scheme. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council has launched the inaugural “Newcastle Heroes” awards, with a ceremony to take place at the Mayor’s Charity Ball at…
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