How it was. Some interesting pictures rarely seen from my collectionSomeone has asked me how retail looked in the ‘old days’. I don’t know how old they think I am, but retail has certainly changed in my time from Coop emporiums to early supermarkets such as Swettenhams and Victor Value. Anyway, here’s a few pictures …
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Oct 24
Dougie Mac Light Up a Life campaign
The Douglas Macmillan Hospice has launched a blog for their Light Up a Life campaign. The annual initiative has already had great support from the people of North Staffordshire, with local people sponsoring lights on the Hospice’s Christmas tree to honour the memory of someone special. Supporters who pledged their support before Bonfire Night (November …
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Sep 30
SoapBox: Will the Big Sell-Off be the End for Potteries Towns?
This week PotteriesEYE along with Ian Norris on his blog revealed the list of “assets” Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council are seriously considering selling to pay for their £59m plans to move the Civic Centre from Stoke to Hanley. So incredible is the list that many Potteries folk who read this site (500-1000 hits a …
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Sep 08
Nicky Davis Blog: Stoke on Trent City Council Meeting 6/9/12
From Nicky Davis Blog: http://nickydavis.blogspot.co.uk/ I attended this council meeting and this time contributed by asking supplementary questions to two public questions. I will concentrate in this blog on petitions and public questions and refer to times in the webcast . Petitions Two of the petitions opposed the move of the civic centre from Stoke to Hanley. There was a further petition on …
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Aug 03
Tom Reynolds Blog: Falling buildings, blame and the games
This article is from Tom Reynolds Blog: http://longtontom.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/falling-buildings-blame-and-the-games/ It’s been a dramatic week for Longton town centre with two buildings falling into disrepair to the extent that one (in Uttoxeter Rd) started to collapse and one (in Market St) need to be demolished. The subsequent road closures are of great concern to businesses in the town, who …
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May 18
Cllr Blogs: Spinning-Out could be a winning shout
Councillor Blogs: Tom Reynolds The last couple of years in Stoke-on-Trent the desperate vulnerability of many cherished community facilities has been devastatingly demonstrated. The problem has been the institutional reliance of so many of these buildings/organisations on the local authority, and in turn the council’s financial dependence on area based grants from Whitehall. I won’t …
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Sep 05
Jury Find BNP SoT Leader Michael Coleman GUILTY
News
by PottEye
September 5, 2012
Michael Coleman, leader of the British National Party (BNP) in Stoke-on-Trent, has been found guilty of racially-aggravated harassment. Sentencing will be on 28th September. No bail restrictions have been placed on him until then. The 46-year-old was reported to police by Labour Cllr Joy Garner, now running for Police Commissioner in Staffordshire, after two blogs he posted, …
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