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• Super League: Widnes Vikings 36-10 Leigh Centurions

  22-06-2017 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Widnes leapfrog Leigh at the foot of the Super League table as they score seven tries in a home win over the Centurions.
  
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• Max Clayton: Blackpool sign forward from Bolton Wanderers

  22-06-2017 21:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blackpool sign Bolton forward Max Clayton on a two-year contract, with an option for a further 12 months.
  
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• Music venue Sound Control could be demolished to make way for huge tower of students flats

  22-06-2017 21:30 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Sound Control bosses say they’re looking for a ‘bigger and better’ music venue
  
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• Mahela Jayawardene pulls out of Lancashire stint for 'personal reasons'

  22-06-2017 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Sri Lanka batsman Mahela Jayawardene will not play for Lancashire in the T20 Blast because of "personal reasons".
  
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• Four Manchester United players attend Chris Smalling's wedding

  22-06-2017 20:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Man Utd news has the latest from the players' holidays where Chris Smalling got married in Italy.
  
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• Cladding stripped from Manchester tower block over fire safety fears

  22-06-2017 19:57 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The move in Wythenshawe comes as samples from all 56 tower blocks owned by Manchester council or social housing providers were being sent away for urgent tests
  
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• Elderly stalker forced his way into nurse's home after falling for her because she had 'smiley eyes'

  22-06-2017 19:28 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Love-struck Michael Moss, 85, also followed her into a medicine cupboard and ‘trapped’ them inside
  
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• A picnic will be held to celebrate the lives of two friends killed in the Manchester Arena attack

  22-06-2017 19:11 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The families of Alison Howe and Lisa Lees, from Royton, Oldham, are inviting the public to join them at the event on Friday - following a private funeral
  
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• Martyn Hett's mum says she 'forgives' the Manchester Arena bomber for killing her son

  22-06-2017 18:57 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Figen Murray spoke to Radio 5 Live on the one month anniversary of the Manchester bombing
  
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• Police 'really concerned' for welfare of missing Tameside man Duncan Boulton

  22-06-2017 18:19 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Duncan Boulton, 58, was last seen in Droylsden on Tuesday, June 20
  
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• Celine Dion fans disappointed after failing to get tickets for rescheduled shows

  22-06-2017 17:59 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The Canadian star's show has been moved to a smaller venue in Leeds following the Manchester Arena terror attack in May
  
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• Super League: Huddersfield Giants v Wigan Warriors

  22-06-2017 17:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Team news as Huddersfield host Wigan in Friday's Super League fixture at the John Smith's Stadium (20:00 BST).
  
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• Couple raise £5,000 for hospital unit that saved their daughter's life

  22-06-2017 17:35 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Little Lola Griffin spent three months on the neonatal unit at Stepping Hill after she was born prematurely
  
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• Liam Gallagher reveals release date for solo album As You Were

  22-06-2017 17:33 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  As You Were will be the first solo album from the former Oasis frontman and you can pre-order it from midnight
  
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• Liam Gallagher new album release date confirmed - and you can pre-order it now

  22-06-2017 17:33 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  As You Were will be the first solo album from the former Oasis frontman and you can pre-order it now
  
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• Man found dead in supermarket car park 'fell from roof'

  22-06-2017 17:22 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Police were called to Eden Square car park in Urmston early on Thursday after a man's body was found
  
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• Support services 'stepped away' from Lee Ridgway in months leading up to his death, inquest hears

  22-06-2017 17:20 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Lee, 16, died on August 28 last year after he was hit by a train at Bramhall Station
  
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• Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan is pretty in pink as she films scenes with mystery man

  22-06-2017 17:17 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The Corrie actress, who plays Rosie Webster, is seen having a doorstep encounter with a man in a women's nightgown in upcoming scenes on the soap
  
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• Blind Stockport WW2 veteran, 95, missing medals

  22-06-2017 16:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Alfred Barlow was returning from a pilgrimage to Normandy when he realised he no longer had them.
  
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• Hillsborough disaster charges decision to be announced by CPS next week

  22-06-2017 16:40 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Evidence files relating to 23 suspects were passed to CPS in January
  
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• Girl 'trafficked into the country for sexual exploitation' rescued by police

  22-06-2017 16:38 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The NCA confirmed a Romanian girl, found at a property in Hulme, was ‘safeguarded’ and was now being supported by the NHS and a specialist unit of the agency
  
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• 600 tower blocks could be covered in similar material to Grenfell Tower

  22-06-2017 16:31 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  So far tests have revealed that combustible cladding has been found on at least three tower blocks across the UK
  
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• Village falls silent for funeral of teenager Nell Jones who died in Manchester Arena attack

  22-06-2017 16:16 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Scores of friends and family - including more than 100 schoolmates - lined the streets of Goostrey for the popular 14-year-old’s funeral on Wednesday
  
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• Mourners fall silent for funeral of teenager Nell Jones who died in Manchester Arena attack

  22-06-2017 16:16 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Scores of friends and family - including more than 100 schoolmates - lined the streets of Middlewich for the popular 14-year-old’s funeral on Wednesday
  
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• Lancashire v Hampshire: James Anderson takes 4-20 as Red Rose win by innings

  22-06-2017 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England seamer James Anderson finishes with figures of 4-20 as Lancashire beat Hampshire by an innings and 30 runs.
  
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• Woman found beaten on a Stockport street rushed to hospital and put in induced coma

  22-06-2017 16:09 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  A passer by discovered the 38-year-old surrounded by blood and with a fractured eye socket
  
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• Watch: Ryan Giggs serves meals to homeless people at the Booth Centre

  22-06-2017 16:09 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The Manchester United legend provides meals to the centre through his Worsley restaurant George's
  
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• Craig Davies: Oldham re-sign Scunthorpe striker on two-year contract

  22-06-2017 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Striker Craig Davies leaves Scunthorpe to rejoin former club Oldham Athletic on a two-year contract.
  
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• Man, 23, was 'driven to the brink of suicide' after being raped by two men in a Manchester hotel room while on a lads' night out

  22-06-2017 15:56 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Sam Thompson was attacked in a hotel room in Manchester city centre in an ordeal which lasted for hours
  
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• Manchester homeless man John lends boots to diner 'in need'

  22-06-2017 15:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John gave his boots to Akbar Badshah, who was turned away from a restaurant for wearing sandals.
  
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• Manchester attack: Islamophobic hate crime reports increase by 500%

  22-06-2017 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reports of religious hate crime rose threefold and Islamophobia spiked after the attack, police say.
  
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• The number of people injured in Manchester Arena terror attack rises to 250

  22-06-2017 15:35 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said many people present during the Manchester Arena bombing have suffered both physical and mental health problems
  
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• There could be massive changes ahead in Gary Neville's £200m city centre redevelopment - and the original architects have quit

  22-06-2017 15:13 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Bosses say their involvement with controversial £200m project has reached its 'natural conclusion'
  
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• Manchester poet Tony Walsh to release 'This is the Place' as a Hacienda-inspired single

  22-06-2017 15:13 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Tony Walsh's iconic poem came to symbolise Mancunian pride after the bomb
  
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• Ryan Lloyd: Macclesfield Town sign ex-Port Vale winger on two-year deal

  22-06-2017 15:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Macclesfield Town sign 23-year-old winger Ryan Lloyd on a two-year contract following his release by Port Vale.
  
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• Women disguised in burkas force way into flat and attack occupants with knives and hammer

  22-06-2017 14:52 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Police have arrested a 25-year-old woman on suspicion of attempted murder following the violent attack which took place on Tuesday evening
  
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• Couple admit perverting the course of justice in the case of teenager Ellen Higginbottom

  22-06-2017 14:48 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Dean Speakman and Vicki Calland will be sentenced at a later date
  
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• Manchester Arena blast: Martyn Hett's mother 'forgives' attacker

  22-06-2017 14:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Martyn Hett's mum made her comments exactly a month on from the Manchester Arena bombing.
  
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• Shop worker hit with hammer during robbery is discharged from hospital

  22-06-2017 14:23 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The brave staff member grabbed a shop till back from two robbers as they attempted to steal it from the Premier Express convenience store, on Tootal Road in Weaste, Salford, on June 20
  
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• Shaun Murphy death: Family pays tribute to 'kind, helpful and loving' dad

  22-06-2017 14:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Stabbing victim Shaun Murphy was a "kind, helpful and loving" father, according to his family.
  
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• Andy Burnham pledges to replace Prevent strategy in Manchester

  22-06-2017 14:07
  
  New scheme must command confidence of region’s Muslim communities, says Greater Manchester mayorThe much-criticised Prevent programme is to be replaced in Greater Manchester as part of a broad review of the region’s counter-terror strategy in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing.Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, said the deradicalisation scheme had achieved some success but was “too top-down”. He said: “Prevent, as it’s currently configured, w
  
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• Scammer who used innocent people's identities to help drivers avoid speeding fines is wanted by police

  22-06-2017 14:06 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Police are hunting for Peter Cronin, of Walkden, who is wanted for perverting the course of justice
  
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• Fears hundreds of tower blocks could be coated in combustible cladding

  22-06-2017 13:57 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Downing Street said councils estimate around 600 high-rise buildings have similar cladding to the Grenfell tower tragedy in west London which was the scene of tragedy last week
  
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• Man's body found in supermarket car park

  22-06-2017 13:29 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Police were called to the Eden Square Car Park, on Sumner Way, Urmston, at 5.50am on Thursday morning, to reports a body had been found
  
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• How does Costco work and can I shop there?

  22-06-2017 13:15 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  How can you take advantage of Costco to make your money go further? Here's what you need to know if you want to become a member
  
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• Watch: Olivia Campbell-Hardy's best friend paid an amazing tribute to her at her funeral

  22-06-2017 13:11 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  15-year-old 'was having the greatest night of her life' at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena
  
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• UK rail ticket machines hit by IT glitch

  22-06-2017 12:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rail ticket machines across the UK fell out of service during the morning commute.
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham on launching his debut photography book in Manchester at a "top secret" location

  22-06-2017 12:39 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Brooklyn Beckham, son of Manchester United legend David Beckham and Spice Girl Victoria, is heading to Manchester to launch his book, at a "top secret" Manchester location next week
  
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• Family pay tribute to 'loving dad' Shaun Murphy who died after stabbing in Wythenshawe

  22-06-2017 12:21 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  “He loved to go to work but most of all he cared about being a good father to his son Matthew."
  
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• Freddie Flintoff to star in Fat Friends The Musical

  22-06-2017 12:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The former England and Lancashire County cricketer bowled over series creator Kay Mellor to land a part in the stage adaptation of the ITV show
  
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