A RELIGIOUS leader is among five men arrested on suspicion of terrorism. The Muslim preacher and three others were arrested in raids across Greater Manchester . The man, who has not been named, teaches the Koran at a number of mosques across the region. The 62-year-old was arrested at his home on Willows Lane, Deane, Bolton. "I'm surprised. He carries out spiritual sessions twice-a-week. He is...
Yeah yeah.. you got 'em!! Raids in Manchester and Bolton coincided with the arrest of a 26-year-old man at a hotel near Heathrow airport. Sources were unable to confirm suggestions that he was planning to travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan. It is thought the men had been under surveillance for some time and Assistant Chief Constable Dave Thompson of Greater Manchester Police said: "This is a complex...
Five men, including four from Greater Manchester, have been arrested in a series of counter-terrorism raids. The operations took place in Longsight, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Deane in Bolton, Stalybridge and a hotel near Heathrow Airport. Those arrested are aged between 21 and 62 and the arrests relate to the incitement of terrorism overseas. Police said armed officers were not used in the raids, which...
From The Telegraph Five men have been arrested in the north west under the Terrorism Act Officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit arrested the five men at addresses in the north west in a co-ordinated operation starting at 4am, Greater Manchester Police said. The addresses searched were in Stockport Road, Levenshulme; Victoria Road, Longsight; Bowdon Avenue, Fallowfield, and Willows Lane,...
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,...
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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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 [...]
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...
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 [...]
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...
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...
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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