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tuesday 5 december 2017
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Adnam re-signs with Giants
at 193 HARDY ST Page 24-25
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page 31
Carpark plan ‘makes no sense’ Charles Anderson Editor
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A Stoke business owner is blasting a “bizarre” council plan that will see three car parks taken out on the main road to make way
for a new pedestrian crossing, despite there already being two other ones within 80 metres of each other. Squire’s owner Kim Hall was given notice last month that a new “pedestrian refuge crossing” would soon be built from the
Broadgreen Community Centre leading into the main Stoke car park in Strawbridge Square. The plan is part of a “traffic calming” plan for Stoke. However, it would also mean that Kim would lose three car parks which are often used for deliveries and fami-
lies dropping off elderly customers. “Parking is at a premium in Stoke as it is,” she says. “The carpark in Strawbridge Square is full at the best of times and the council is encouraging people at the community centre to come over here.
They just have stuff all car parks over there.” Kim says it looks like council has not given enough thought to the number of car parks the new community centre would need
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Trafalgar goes al fresco You could be forgiven for thinking you had walked into a European piazza on Friday evening. Upper Trafalgar Street was lined with people all enjoying the balmy weather. Restaurant goers lounged in
bean bags, musicans played and excited bar hoppers danced in the streets. Nelson’s Pip Karsten and Amba Waghorn also made the most of the new pedestrian-only zone with a girls night out. Full story on page 19
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