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More than £20m of Levelling Up money was allocated for a regeneration scheme in Stoke-on-Trent - but residents are still waiting to see the benefits - (The Independent)

It’s a bleak, cold weekday afternoon in Hanley, one of the six towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands.

On the high street, a serene, almost sleepy atmosphere is suddenly broken by two masked young men racing their electric motorbikes past empty shops and a boarded-up 18th-century church.