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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    These companies do this from time to time. Leaving Cannock past the train station there used to be a Stonehouse Pizza place (like the one on Radford Bank). As soon as the McArthurGlen shopping village was nearly done Mitchell and Butler changed it to a Miller and Carter as they knew they would...
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    No but they own it.... https://www.greeneking.co.uk/newsroom/greene-king-acquires-leading-bbq-smokehouse-restaurant-group-hickory-s
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    Do they recalibrate the microwaves accordingly??
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    ex-EE/GEC/Alstom/GE Main Works Development.

    Bellway Homes really pushing the envelope with their Photoshop skills...
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    Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

    Refurbing id say. New countertop has gone in....
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    Stafford Traffic.

    I think that highways have seen the chaos the closure at the start of Wolverhampton road has caused and have now coned off a lane outside Johnson's cleaners going back to Asda....
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    Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

    I went in 18 months ago when looking for a dishwasher. The place stank of cat and he wasn't that enthusiastic as a business owner to a customer being there....
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    What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!

    Ran my longest run ever today (20 miles) in advance of the London Marathon in 4 weeks....
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    Stafford Traffic.

    I haven't seen a similar sign on the island roundabout, only on the drive into town that states that the A449 Wolverhampton road will be fully closed for 2 weeks, wc 22nd April and wc 13th May.....expect next level carnage !!!
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    More steam anyone? Trains through Stafford.

    In 2007 when my old work sponsored Wembley we had corp box tickets for an England game but with it being an evening the only reasonable way to get there was drive to Banbury, park up and then train direct to Wembley itself....
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    More steam anyone? Trains through Stafford.

    Not a steam enquiry but upon getting off a train from Brum at the station at 3.10pm there was a Greater Anglia train on platform 3 with "Wembley Central" as the destination.....
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    Stafford Traffic.

    It was a ramp both sides!! 🙏
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    Stafford Traffic.

    I hope you're right!!!
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    Stafford Traffic.

    I'll be very disappointed if they make runners use steps but I'm happy to be proved wrong (and I'm running the bloody thing)
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    Stafford Traffic.

    Just so people know they've changed the last part of the Stafford half route to runners go down stone road to the McDonald's roundabout before joining the Isabel trail and then after the Isabel trail run on doxey road/tenterbanks before doing a loop around town.
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