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• Kevin Davies: Southport boss willing to muck in down the lower leagues

  28-03-2018 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  How former Premier League and England striker Kevin Davies has turned around Southport's fortunes by grafting in the National League North.
  
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• This SEVEN STONE Easter egg contains the equivalent of 1,111 Dairy Milk bars

  28-03-2018 23:31 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  It took three expert Cadbury chocolatiers to delicately create the unique sweet treat - all in the name of charity
  
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• 'In extreme adversity, this may well have been Greater Manchester’s finest hour'

  28-03-2018 23:03 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  MPs praise the city's emergency services and its people in the first political debate since the publication of the Kerslake report
  
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• How Manchester Airport's £1bn revamp looks - from the top of a 130ft crane

  28-03-2018 22:36 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Contractors are working on top of huge cranes - it's not a job for the faint-hearted
  
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• The M6 in Cheshire to close overnight for emergency repairs

  28-03-2018 22:29 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The road will be closed from midnight tonight (Wednesday) between junction 17 and 18 - highways bosses say it'll reopen in time for Thursday morning's rush-hour
  
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• The Curry Mile off-licence that became a 'honey pot' for bank card thieves

  28-03-2018 22:07 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The owners of Boom store in Rusholme were involved in a scam which raked in thousands of pounds. Now Shorab Bhuiyan and his wife Bobby Bhuiyan have been found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering after a trial
  
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• Plans to axe free IVF treatment in Trafford scrapped

  28-03-2018 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  NHS Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group dismissed the proposal at a meeting on Tuesday.
  
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• Drugs worth £66 MILLION were found hidden in a lorry - now gangsters have been jailed for more than 100 years

  28-03-2018 21:10 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  GMP's biggest-ever drugs seizure has led to members of a huge cocaine and heroin empire being locked up
  
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• Drugs worth £66 MILLION were found hidden in a lorry - now a gang has been jailed for more than 100 years

  28-03-2018 21:10 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  GMP's biggest-ever drugs seizure has led to members of a huge cocaine and heroin empire being locked up
  
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• Student 'stomped on' and beaten with claw hammer in shocking gang attack

  28-03-2018 20:18 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The 20-year-old was walking home with a takeaway through Oldham when he and a friend were jumped
  
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• Three new housing estates to be built in Tameside

  28-03-2018 20:12 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  160 new homes have been approved in Hyde
  
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• Man City book Champions League semis spot

  28-03-2018 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Manchester City ease in to the Women's Champions League semi-finals with a 5-3 second-leg win at Swedish side Linkoping.
  
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• Wall-wedged cat rescued by Manchester fire crews

  28-03-2018 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Georgie had been trapped for more than an hour when his loud "miaows" alerted a passerby.
  
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• Driver who killed dad spared jail after victim's family tell judge they forgive him

  28-03-2018 18:20 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Edward Whalen, 89, hit a child's buggy, injured a young mum, and killed Paul John in an horrific Wythenshawe crash
  
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• Job-hunter 'blown away' by rap application response

  28-03-2018 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Film graduate Anastasia Glover's email had the subject line "Gimme a job innit".
  
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• Tyres let down, windows smashed and doors ripped off - the mindless acts of vandalism on region's ambulances

  28-03-2018 18:02 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  NWAS bosses warned that those found guilty of offences face serious punishment
  
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• Charity calls for more mental health support for people affected by terror attacks

  28-03-2018 17:44 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation is working with families involved in the Manchester Arena attack
  
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• Rochdale town hall 'gongs' will replace Big Ben during BBC news bulletins

  28-03-2018 17:38 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Big Ben’s bells fell silent in August to allow essential repair works to take place
  
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• Manchester attack fire crews 'ashamed' over response delay

  28-03-2018 17:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Firefighters were "waiting to be deployed" but "the order never came", the Fire Brigades Union says.
  
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• Threatening hoax emails have been sent to a number of schools across Greater Manchester and Cheshire

  28-03-2018 16:08 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  It's the second time in less than two weeks that schools have been sent malicious emails
  
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• Vodafone apologises for hotline failure that caused 'stress and upset' after Arena bomb

  28-03-2018 15:47 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell said in parliament that the hotline ‘completely failed families’
  
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• University graduate pens grime rap about her struggle to find a job - and gets attention of national recruiter

  28-03-2018 15:34 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Anastasia Glover explains she has 'worked propa ‘ard and achieved a goal' but been 'messed about' by having to work trial shifts in the rap
  
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• Richard Madeley's comments to Lucy Verasamy were peak Alan Partridge on Good Morning Britain this morning

  28-03-2018 14:22 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The stand-in presenter started a jokey conversation about the weather presenter's 'Dolly Parton' denim dress - then it all went a bit creepy
  
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• The company that wants to turn empty Manchester restaurant tables into office space

  28-03-2018 14:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Technology company FlexTable will match freelancers with venues looking to fill their quieter periods during the day
  
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• Mobike to return to Stockport after being temporarily suspended

  28-03-2018 13:54 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The bike hire firm pulled out of the borough last week to ‘protect’ bikes and staff
  
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• Family launch desperate appeal to find dad who has been missing for more than a week

  28-03-2018 13:52 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Scott Sharples, 27, is missing from the Hindley area of Wigan
  
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• Facebook Live broadcast of police chase is filmed by the suspects - while being egged on by their mates

  28-03-2018 13:36 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Someone inside the car even appears to find the time to 'like' the comments as they try to escape from the 'beamers' in hot pursuit
  
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• Police looking for four men after man shot in own home in 'brutal and terrifying' attack

  28-03-2018 13:33 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The victim was shot after four men arrived at the property on Saturday night
  
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• 2,000 homes for Rochdale town centre in plan that will see derelict sites transformed

  28-03-2018 13:18 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  'Residential strategy' will look at developing brownfield sites in and around the town centre
  
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• Freya, the 'loneliest' dog who became a Hollywood film star, has died

  28-03-2018 12:26 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Cross breed Freya  appeared in Transformers: The Last Knight with Sir Anthony Hopkins
  
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• Adidas have unveiled their new range of Deadlystrike football boots

  28-03-2018 12:26 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  They have re-released the Copa, the Predator, the X and Nemeziz
  
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• Plastic bottles: UK a step closer to deposit and re-use scheme - here's what it could mean, and how other countries have done it

  28-03-2018 12:11 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Will you have to pay a deposit on bottles on cans? When might it start? And what do they do in other countries?
  
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• Manchester Duck Race 2018 - everything you need to know

  28-03-2018 11:58 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The popular Easter tradition will turn the Irwell yellow again on Good Friday
  
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• Two children hit by a car outside Crossacres Primary School in Wythenshawe

  28-03-2018 11:55 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The nine-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl were not seriously injured
  
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• Tragedy of the Coronation Street extra with a smile on his face who had battled mental health issues for years

  28-03-2018 11:20 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  'He made many calls for help and these got more frequent as he got older'
  
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• The world's biggest inflatable obstacle course is coming to Manchester

  28-03-2018 11:06 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Are you ready for The Monster?
  
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• His daughter is dead because he was 'driving like a lunatic' - now top judges have agreed that his sentence should be cut

  28-03-2018 10:12 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  'We are the ones suffering here. My daughters have lost a sister and now they are losing their dad'
  
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• Manchester Arena attack: firefighters 'ashamed' they could not help victims

  28-03-2018 09:46
  Fire brigades union chief says crews were waiting to go in, but the ‘order never came’Firefighters felt “embarrassed” and “ashamed” that they were stopped from helping victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack more quickly, the north-west secretary of the Fire Brigades Union has said.Mark Rowe said crews were waiting to be deployed after the bombing – some of them so close that they had heard the explosion – but “the order never came down
  
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• M6 traffic news: Long delays on motorway after M6 was shut because of fallen power cable

  28-03-2018 08:25 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  'Engineers will work to minimise any effect on local residents' electricity supply'
  
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• Obese people will not be allowed to have surgery until they lose weight in Trafford

  28-03-2018 07:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The tough approach was put forward and approved by NHS bosses in Trafford in a raft of measures aimed at saving almost £1.3 million a year
  
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• 'I tried to crawl away on my hands and knees - then I was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver'

  28-03-2018 07:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  A 21-year-old man was savagely beaten by a gang outside an Oldham nightclub at the weekend - this is his harrowing story
  
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• 'Cerebral palsy won't stop me becoming a lawyer'

  28-03-2018 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Daniel says he won't listen to anyone who says his cerebral palsy is too great an obstacle.
  
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