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Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England. It has an estimated population of 259,965 (as of 2022), [ 6 ] [ 7 ] making it the largest settlement in Staffordshire and one of the largest cities of the Midlands .
Toronto rapper Maestro Fresh Wes rendered homage to the area code in his 1998 song "416/905 (TO Party Anthem)". Rapper Drake has a tattoo of the number on his rib to symbolize Toronto as his birthplace. [15] Drake has also released his fourth studio album, titled Views, referring to the 416 and 647 area codes. His album picture is of him ...
The Sentinel, known online as Stoke-on-Trent Live, is a daily regional newspaper circulating in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire areas of England. It is owned by Reach plc and based at Hanley , Stoke-on-Trent.
A Stoke-upon-Trent Borough Council was established in 1874 when the town was made a municipal borough. On the federation of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910, it merged with the five neighbouring towns of Burslem , Fenton , Hanley , Longton and Tunstall and became a county borough . [ 4 ]
BBC Radio Stoke is the BBC's local radio station serving Staffordshire and South Cheshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, Freeview and via BBC Sounds from studios in the Hanley area of Stoke-on-Trent. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 118,000 listeners and an 8.9% share as of December 2023. [1]
A group of amateur actors and actresses in Stoke-on-Trent met in 1920 to stage the play Caste by T. W. Robertson, which they performed in February 1921 at the Empire Theatre, Longton. They later created a theatre, converted from a mission church in Beresford Street in Shelton; it opened in March 1933 with the play Lean Harvest by Ronald Jeans ...
The ST postcode area, also known as the Stoke-on-Trent postcode area, [2] is a group of 21 postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover much of north and central Staffordshire (including Stoke-on-Trent , Stafford , Leek , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Stone and Uttoxeter ), plus very small parts of Cheshire and Derbyshire .
City Sentral was a planned major retail and leisure development in city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It was proposed by Realis Estates, and was a planned 650,000 sq ft (60,000 m 2 ) regional shopping centre which was due to open in 2016. [ 1 ]