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The council s latest vision for the East-West site in Hanley, featuring a tram station (bottom left)
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An extra £3.25 million of taxpayers money will be spent on a major city centre redevelopment project.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has more than tripled its budget for the City Centre Regeneration Area â including the East-West Precinct and the former Hanley bus station â from £1.5 million to £4.75 million.
Work is due to begin on installing bollards around Piccadilly to make the area more pedestrianised (Image: Joe Burn)
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Traders have welcomed work starting on the installation of bollards in three parts of the city centre.
The aim is to make areas in Hanley more pedestrian-friendly and encourage shoppers to return as lockdown ends.
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Following the recent publication of their life story, Gotta Die To Live, Jonathan Bellamy caught up with CR pioneering founders Chris and Kerry Cole, to find out more.
Jon: Kerry, you re the author of Gotta Die To Live, and it s
not your first book. What might people know you from
previously?
Kerry: Prior to writing Gotta Die to Live I wrote a novel called Exit
Darcus and before that an art-style book called The Purple Veil.
Kerry Cole:
author of Gotta Die To Live
Jon: Is writing something that has always been there in your
heart? Even growing up, did you think that one day you d like to write