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I spent a weekend in one of Britain’s ‘worst places’ and fell in love

I spent a weekend in one of Britain’s ‘worst places’ and fell in love

In the 12th installment of Metro Travel Hot Takes, Jon Fellowes makes the case for Stoke-On-Trent, a city variously described as crap, unsexy and somewhere people can't wait to get away from.

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