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    The document summarizes news from Stoke-on-Trent, UK. It reports that churches in the city are opening a food bank to address child poverty, with nearly 30% of children living in poverty across the city and as high as 44% in some areas. It also covers a university brain drain issue, with most students not remaining in North Staffordshire after graduation, and the closure of a unique oatcake shop called Oat Cuisine.

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    The document summarizes news from Stoke-on-Trent, UK. It reports that churches in the city are opening a food bank to address child poverty, with nearly 30% of children living in poverty across the city and as high as 44% in some areas. It also covers a university brain drain issue, with most students not remaining in North Staffordshire after graduation, and the closure of a unique oatcake shop called Oat Cuisine.

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    Spring 2012

    www.pitsnpots.co.uk

    FREE

    A special print edition of Stoke-on-Trents essential news website


    Why Newcastle refuses merger idea with city See page 3

    NEWS

    Joan Walley marks her silver jubilee as an MP See page 10


    Citys brain drain

    Why do nearly all university students leave North Staffordshire after they graduate? - Page 5

    The hunger crisis in Stoke-on-Trent


    Picture by Martin Elliott

    Say farewell to Oat Cuisine

    l the city live in poverty


    CHURCHES in Stoke-on-Trent are opening a food bank after discovering that the city has the third highest child poverty rate in the West Midlands.

    Nearly a third of children in

    By Natalie Clarkson

    www.pitsnpots.co.uk Twitter: @pitsnpots Facebook: Pits n Pots

    Nearly 30 per cent of children across the city are living in poverty. And in some areas the rate is as high as 44 per cent according to the Child Poverty Action Group. Ron Willoughby, pastor of Wesley Hall Methodist Church, who are helping to run the

    l bank to feed the hungry

    Churches launch food

    food bank said: "Living below the poverty line isn't about not having the latest gadgets or Nintendo DS. It's about going to bed cold and hungry and waking up cold and hungry. And we want to do something to stop children having to live like Continues page 2 that in Stoke-on-Trent."

    Unique oatcake shop closes its doors for the final time - Page 8
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