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Speak to as many people at university as possible

Speak to as many people at university as possible

Monday, August 18, 2008

MANY teenagers starting university next month will have to navigate the tricky world of debt, coping away from home, and making new friends. But student life has plenty of plus points too.

Kirsty Bosley, aged 21, recalls arriving at Staffordshire University two years...

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Boy who was reading at two now off to Oxford two years early

Boy who was reading at two now off to Oxford two years early

Monday, August 18, 2008

YOUNG genius Samuel Swinnerton has been offered a place at Oxford University after gaining six A-levels at the age of 16. The remarkable teenager...

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Exams were wrapped round canvassing and revision

Exams were wrapped round canvassing and revision

Monday, August 18, 2008

WHEN teenager Chris Barber was preparing for his A-level exams this summer, he had more than academic pressures on his mind. For the 18-year-old, from...

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Children attend activity days at Stafford Castle and Izaak Walton's Cottage

Children attend activity days at Stafford Castle and Izaak Walton's Cottage

Monday, August 18, 2008

HISTORIC ANGLE: Children have been celebrating their heritage at a range of workshops this summer. Stafford Castle and Izaak Walton's Cottage are...

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DATE: 1920s to 1970s PLACE: POTTERIES

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Pride in the job was a top priority for old-time pottery workers who made most of their products by hand. Before the onset of automatic processes,...

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Free swimming for children next week

Saturday, August 16, 2008

YOUNG people in the city are invited to swim for free next week. Under-eights must be accompanied by a paying adult, while the maximum age is 15...

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Landscape shaped forever by mining

Apedale Hall before demolition in 1934. Inset, Apedale drift mine courtesy of Apedale Mining Resource Centre.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

"My parents originated in North Staffordshire," says Apedale farmer Barbara Pepper, aged 80. "Father came from Shraley Brook and my mother was an...

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Woodhouse's soapbox

Saturday, August 16, 2008

THE question Coronation Street needs to be asking itself is whether it is ready for another serial killer just yet. Let's face it, there's only so...

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Sweet odour in streets was sign of temptation

An illustration on a tin containing Old Betty Plant's sweets, which were made in Morley Street, Hanley, until 1970. Below, two employees pictured outside Old Betty Plant's works in the 1940s and a Christmas box of sweets made by Winton's, whose factory was in Leek Road, Stoke.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

John Abberley And 50 years ago there was a good chance that the tasty titbits were made by one of North Staffordshire's own toffee and sweet...

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Review: Leonard Cohen - The Essential

Review: Leonard Cohen - The Essential

Saturday, August 16, 2008

HIS unexpected return to touring has reminded people just how special he is. Wise, world-weary, witty, his undeserved reputation for miserablism...

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