Air raid shelters mark 70 years
BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Events marking the 70th anniversary of Stockport's air raid shelters take place in the Greater Manchester town.
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Stop the Press! Slow News Week Ends!
The Dreamcast Junkyard (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yeah, yeah, yeah - I know I haven't written anything for a while. That's because I've been on 'leave,' and for the most part have been spending my time doing fuck all. Yep, fuck all. Except watching Jeremy Kyle (pictured, yesterday) and drinking the free wine that magically 'appeared' in the kitchen. Hick. In retrospect though, that's not entirely 100% true, for in between the odd gulp of poor quality,...
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Mother arrested after death of girl three
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after her threeyearold daughter was found dead at their home in Stockport Greater Manchester.
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Greater Manchester Bristol VR 1416
Busworld Photography (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
One of the saddest things the National Bus Company did was break up the charismatic North Western Road Car Company. With 55o vehicles it operated across much of pleasant and affluent green Cheshire and also more significantly the even less remunerative wilds of the Derbyshire Peak District. So when the cream of it's empire within the new Greater Manchester SELNEC PTA area was taken over including it's...
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Limited Resources
Good Food Shops (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Limited Resources have been delivering organic, environmentally friendly and fairly traded products since 1988 to the Greater Manchester and north Cheshire areas. The people that run it are friendly and helpful and enthusiastic about what they do. They support local organic farmers and growers with an aim to reduce food miles where possible. There's a carefully selected range of organic beer and wine,...
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“Question time!!!!” at Stockport Magistrates- Answer- Mohammed Latif not guilty of attacking BNP leafleters.
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Nick Griffin BNP leader. The BBC website reports today 9/9/09 “A man who confronted two British National Party (BNP) members when they put a leaflet through his door has been found not guilty of threatening them. Mohammed Latif, 38, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, was accused of swearing, trying to take their leaflets and calling them “Nazis” on 9 [...]
- Man acquitted in BNP 'threats' case - Lancaster Unity
- Man acquitted in BNP 'threats' case - icWales
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Muslim Rapes Two 13-Year-Old Girls at a Church...
Exposing Islam. (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
A 22-year-old man who raped two 13-year-old girls in his car after supplying them with alcohol has been jailed for 14 years. Ali offered the two girls a lift before giving them vodka and raping them. Munshur Ali, from Hyde in Greater Manchester, asked his victims for directions and began chatting with them before offering the young girls a lift. Ali drove the girls to an off licence in Stockport and...
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UK Rape Jihad: Muslim Rapes Two 13-Year-Old Girls at a Church…
Winds Of Jihad (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
Ali offered the two girls a lift before giving them vodka and raping them. Munshur Ali, from Hyde in Greater Manchester, asked his victims for directions and began chatting with them before offering the young girls a lift. Ali drove the girls to an off licence in Stockport and bought them a bottle of vodka to drink. He [...]
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300 held in crackdown on drunken crime
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
Co-ordinated raids in Greater Manchester nets force's largest number of arrests in a single operation Police in Greater Manchester arrested 300 people today, the largest number of arrests made by the force during a single operation, in a co-ordinated series of raids by 3,000 officers to round up suspected violent drunken thugs. It marked the launch of a crackdown called Operation Admiral, which will...
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SELEC Cheshire Bristol VR No. 408
Busworld Photography (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
I'm sure my RN fans from Portugal will heartily agree that in the early Seventies SELNEC made a good choice when it selected this orange and cream livery for it's combined Manchester area bus fleet. I admit they were quite cheerful colours and looked rather pleasing on this ECW bodied Bristol VR with it's cream window mounts which had been ordered by the old North Western Road Car Company. The trouble...
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rare housekeeping
Feeling Listless (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Museums This is one of my rare housekeeping posts. Now that the summer is drawing to close (oh it is, you know it is, look out of the window) I think it’s about time I got on with my other slightly dormant project of visiting all of places listed in Edward Morris’s Public Art Collection In North-West England. Looking over the places I’ve written about so far, I was surprised to see...
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Life peer Lord Gregson dies aged 85
Peerage News (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
The Baron Gregson, a life peer since 1975, died in hospital, 12 Aug 2009. He was 85. John Gregson was b 29 Jan 1924, the son of John Gregson. From 1996 he was Treasurer of the Built Environment Group. He was also Honorary Life President of the Labour Finance and Industry Group. Created a life peer in 1975, he took the title Baron GREGSON, of Stockport in Greater Manchester. .--==--
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Stroke victim uses chart to speak
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
A woman who is locked in her paralysed body after a massive stroke has developed a way of communicating with her family.Michelle Wheatley, 26, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, was bathing her baby when she suffered the seizure. She has the rare Loc ...
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Heroes vs Zero
Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
A yob who urinated on a war memorial then attacked a man who tried to stop him was forced to say sorry when SEVEN veterans confronted him. Jack Bailey was met by the ex-soldiers as he arrived at court over the outrage. They held up their medals to show him how proud they were to fight for their country. Bailey, 20, desecrated Blackpool's Cenotaph hours before a remembrance service last month. When...
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Pensioner found dead under clothes
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/07/2009
Police took five searches to find Joan Cunnane, 77, who died of natural causes at her home near Stockport The body of a shopaholic pensioner was discovered buried beneath a mountain of clothes after she collapsed and died at her bungalow, an inquest heard today. Joan Cunnane, a 77-year-old who was unmarried and had no relatives, lived in a bungalow in Heaton Mersey, near Stockport, so stuffed with...