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Real-time upgrades finally arrive at Eccles station
Passengers at Eccles rail station will now be able to see real-time information screens after funding was granted by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). The...
You’ve Gotham be kidding me? Swinton father and son turn Batman and Robin to race 10K
47-year-old dad of three Mike Critchley isn’t quite a Hollywood superstar yet, but he’s running his way into the local paper by racing for Cancer Research...
Nearly 2m flew from Manchester Airport as Euro football pushes passengers to new heights
Manchester Airport has announced it has hit 25th months of consecutive growth with monthly passenger numbers close to the two million mark. In April 2016 1,920,084...
Man ‘turned into goat’ by Salford prosthetics expert
A Salford University prosthetics expert enabled a man to follow his dream of living as a goat. Conceptual designer Thomas Thwaites spent several days studying their...
Police sorry for making Trafford Centre mock suidice bomber shout ‘Allahu Akbar’
Greater Manchester’s police commissioner has been forced to apologise after a simulated suicide bomber shouted an Islamic religious phrase during a counter-terror...
Pics & video: Trafford Centre ‘suicide bomber’ sees 800 volunteers join fake terror attack
800 volunteers have taken part in a police training exercise simulating a terrorist attack at the Trafford Centre. From around midnight on Monday 9 May, police dressed...
Family of tragic Peel Green mum, 53, donate stunning wedding dress
A silk wedding dress of great sentimental value has been donated to St Ann’s Hospice as a thank you to the charity. The garment – which is encrusted with...
100 years ago: Snoring Scouser strangles guard in Eccles football fiasco
We came across an amusing story from the pages of the now (sadly) defunct Eccles and Patricroft Journal from May 1916 which shows that avoiding fares on public transport...
EU In or Out? Green Party leader to debate in Manchester
The leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, will host an open debate in Manchester on whether Britain should leave or stay in the EU. At the Friends Meeting House...
Police plead for Facebook shares to find missing Ryan Partington, 22
Police have put out an urgent call to the public in Salford to help find a high-risk missing man. Ryan Partington, age 22, was reported missing earlier this week....
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