Royal Stafford is latest in series of closures as rising costs add to pressures on companies in Potteries
Rob Morley has been made redundant eight times since he was a teenager, working in different ceramics factories across Staffordshire that have all shut or downsized, one by one.
From WH Grindley, where he started when he was 16, the list includes Washington Pottery, Hanley Bank, Imperial, and Eastwood among others, but the most recent is Royal Stafford.
