Stoke-on-Trent is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England. It has an estimated population of 259,965 as of 2022, making it the largest settlement in Staffordshire and one of the largest cities of the Midlands. From Wikipedia
An RSPCA case sparked by a 2023 BBC Panorama investigation exposed a commercial ear-cropping network that hid UK mutilations behind falsified foreign import papers.