Terry Hilton (1948/1949 – 10 February 2011, better known as Sam Plank) was a British local

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, known for his talk-based radio programmes in

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The Potteries The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall, which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. North Staffordshire became a centre of cera ...

and

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and

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. Plank left Signal to set up Trent Radio broadcasting as Focal Radio which was bought out by local businessman

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from administration. Focal Radio ceased broadcasting in May 2009 after the team couldn't raise enough funds to buy out the chairman of the company who had pulled out. Plank also broadcast on Moorlands Radio to the Staffordshire Moorlands where as well as presenting the 10 - 1 programme every weekday he was sales manager. He did considerable charity work as well as highlighting many political issues. Plank died of cancer on 10 February 2011, aged 62.

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Moorlands Radio tribute

BBC Radio Stoke obituary
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