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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central England south of Manchester. Historically noted for the production of ceramics, it is the center of the district known as the Potteries.
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Whilst growing up in Stoke-on-Trent which is one of the most under-developed cities in the country there was simply nothing for us to do other than hang around outside shops, tresspass wherever we could and intentially get into police chases just for the 'fun' of it. link / >
StrategyPage.com 2009
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This compares with a 195% increase in average prices, from £56,018 to £165,430, in the slowest-growing areas such as Thurrock in Essex, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Blackpool.
Homeowners benefit from fourfold surge in prices from to 1998 to 2008 2011
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I first saw Lemmy around about 1977 - the first Motorhead tour, in his native Stoke-on-Trent as it happens.
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Ask anyone in Stoke-on-Trent "who is Ian Kilmister or even Lemmy?" and "who is Terry Conroy?"
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I live less than a mile from Stoke-on-Trent PCT, which follows the Nice guidelines.
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This compares with a 195% increase in average prices, from £56,018 to £165,430, in the slowest-growing areas such as Thurrock in Essex, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Blackpool.
Homeowners benefit from fourfold surge in prices from to 1998 to 2008 2011
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The Stoke-on-Trent museum's collection, including these 18th-century basalt and encaustic vases, 'could never be put together again', says the letter.
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Take the 'Andy Porter', brewed briefly during the late 1990s by the Titanic Brewery in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in honour of the eponymous Port Vale midfielder who made 357 appearances for the club between 1987 and 1998.
Which club started the most managers on the road to football success? John Ashdown 2010
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Christopher Le Brun and Tracey Emin are among a group of Royal Academicians calling on the government to prevent the sale of the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.
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After some time in Stoke-on-Trent, a visitor begins to see how these words might be adapted to this singular piece of the English Midlands.
Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010
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