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...Paul NiblettStoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK...
...“When I’m on the factory floor painting, all the staff are excited about what I’m doing — especially when I mention that I’m a Stokie,” she says....
...Coates, who founded the company in Stoke-on-Trent more than two decades ago and kept the business in the area, is one of the UK’s highest taxpayers....
...Paul Scott’s “sampler” collages use details of original patterns drawn from hand-engraved copper plates in the Spode Works archives in Stoke-on-Trent....
...On another is a Polish woman who grows the most beautiful peonies I have ever seen and always gives us several bunches — not to mention waters my plot when I’m on holiday....
...Jim PickardSo I’m gonna pick Melanie Onn and Mary Creagh....
...George Parker I’m gonna go for someone listeners may or may not be familiar with — it’s Jonathan Gullis, who’s the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North. He is toast at the next election in that seat....
...“I’m voting Labour next time definitely,” said Boden, handing out bacon butties. “Starmer isn’t strong enough. But we have no choice.”...
...Hibbert’s latest creative outlet, Bertioli, is a verdant array of textiles, wallpapers, Stoke-on-Trent ceramics, table linens and furnishings, all featuring her own painterly botanical designs....
...Niche engineer Goodwin, based in Stoke-on-Trent and another family-controlled business, has an enviable growth record....
...I’m firmly of the belief that we have to grow our way there,” she says, fixing me with a stare....
...Stoke-on-Trent warned that it was teetering on the edge of having to do so, too....
...“I’m trying to keep it simple, with an atmosphere of hope,” says West, whose planting was anything but simple to execute: “It’s difficult to get weeds to grow in pots....
...It’s early days yet so we can’t know the eventual cost — but I’m very enthusiastic.” Another Stithians heat pump beneficiary is Tristan Bowden, who has lived in the village all his life....
...So I feel I’m loyal to Liverpool, but I’m not actually going to be there and I’m gonna let that carnage play out down the road. George ParkerOK....
...“I’m a maker — it’s what I do.” Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...While Pennon — alongside peers Severn Trent and United Utilities — is protected in the long term from inflationary pressures as these can be passed on to customers, it will still feel the impact in 2023....
...The score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross enhances the mood without intruding....
...“Repair is hugely significant in terms of keeping products going longer,” says Tim Cooper, emeritus professor of sustainable design and consumption at Nottingham Trent University....
...“I want to have a positive relationship with the EU, I’m happy to engage with the EU,” she said....
...“Rishi’s a very well-dressed man, I’m not going to give him fashion advice,” Truss said, but refused to disown Dorries’s remarks....
...He is backing Truss but pointed out that until the TV debate last week in Stoke-on-Trent, a post-industrial city on the border of the Midlands and northern England, little had been said about levelling up...
...“I’m distressed,” said Sharda Ugra, a cricket writer in India. “It’s going to be an earthquake and it’s going to change the game fundamentally....
...Over the past year M&S has surprised on the upside, twice increasing its profit forecasts....
...Written and developed by Georgia Pritchett (Succession and Veep) and directed by Michael Showalter (The Big Sick), this adaptation opens, fittingly, in the middle of a garden party in 2010....
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