UKShropshire to close four village primaries as rolls fall by a fifth
Schools in the south of the county have fewer than 40 pupils each and one has a reception class of two; parents say the closures will finish the villages
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Josh Whitfield
Midlands correspondent
Josh writes for the Daily Meridian. 3 articles.
UKLeicester switches on Diwali lights as Golden Mile crowd reaches 40,000
The Belgrave Road celebrations, said to be the largest outside India, return with a 10-metre lantern, a new food market and four weeks of events before Diwali on 8 November
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UKStoke-on-Trent pottery relights its kilns after 18 months in administration
Burslem factory rehires 140 staff under new owners as the city’s ceramics industry records its first year of growth since 2019
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