Five Towns

noun

the Five Towns
the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has insisted local inquiries into grooming gangs in five towns are still going ahead despite claims the plans have been watered down.

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The Israeli military was evacuating at least five towns close to Gaza, while the U.N. more than 123,000 Gazans were displaced by the fighting.

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He was soon baking for the Five Towns Woman’s Exchange and by 16 had hired his first employee, a classmate from home economics.

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Mr. Greenberg, an affable redhead at 6 feet 4 inches tall who was raised in the Five Towns area of Long Island, opened his first bakery in Manhattan in 1946, in a narrow storefront on East 95th Street, near Second Avenue, with $3,000 — poker winnings from games he played in the Army.

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Hunter is currently the only reporter left at his paper, serving about 5,000 residents in five towns, and he’s not taking a salary.

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