Carrie Longton, from the parenting website Mumsnet, said her contributors had given Dr Walsh's views short shrift.

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And Longton High School will also be shut in phases, with plans for pupils to go to Sandon High School.

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City councillors agreed to close Trentham High, Berry Hill, Mitchell High and Longton High in the merger of eight schools into five academies.

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The couple set up their own studio in the Roslyn Works in Longton six years ago after being made redundant from Moorcroft Enamels.

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In a small pottery studio in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the steady hand of Peter Graves, 64, adds the finishing details to a delicately-painted picture of a ship inside an enamel box.

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Ms Longton said it was vital that women who asked for an epidural were not made to feel they had failed in some way, as that was very likely to damage the bonding process with their baby.

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At home I remember the cyclists, one of them in their eighties, who I met on a very windy Saturday morning riding around a twenty mile course in New Longton to help people living in the developing world overcome their water shortage.

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The Environment Agency has issued an alert for the River Douglas from Parbold to where it merges with the River Ribble including Rufford, Mawdesley, Hesketh and Longton and the Crossens area which includes Ormskirk to Southport including, Banks, Birkdale, Brown Edge, Mere Brow and Scarisbrick.

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