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Arthur Ward and Ron Greene

New Friends

The Hanliensians, a community of old boys and girls from Hanley High School, is still forging new friendships today. This is despite the school closing its doors over 20 years ago…

I want you to think back to your last day of school. How did you feel? Were you happy? Were you one of these people who couldn't wait to get out of the place? Or were you sad, not wanting to say goodbye to the people you'd met over your time there?

Well, as BBC Radio Stoke's Mick Tucker reports, there's one local school where people are still making new friends, 20 years after it closed. Reg Barley is the president of Hanley High School's 'Hanliensians'...

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