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  • Not again!

    YET again I have arrived home after a walk in Timperley with the pram and found dog mess all over the pram wheels. When are the so-called 'dog lovers' of Timperley going to start clearing up after their dogs? I am sick and tired of wiping dog mess off

  • Joanne wins model girl title

    WITH a record number of entries and 17 attractive finalists, this year's competition for Messenger Model Girl was one of the closest ever. But last week the final decision was made and the winner announced as 20-year-old Joanne Burrows. Joanne who can

  • Store giant heads for Trafford

    PLANS have been unveiled for a John Lewis store to open at the Trafford Centre. The store giant will open a branch at the £900 million shopping city in 2005. It will cover two floors in the Festival Village area, with shop fit works set to get underway

  • EYES DOWN - LOOK AWAY!

    I HOPE Paul O'Grady hasn't donated his Lily Savage wardrobe to the local drama group - I think he's going to need it again. His new comedy series Eyes Down (BBC1, Friday) is not so much 'top of the shop' as 'two little ducks', in cricket parlance that

  • Locks keep burglars at bay

    AN Old Trafford woman has praised the work of local crime prevention advisors after their measures foiled a break-in at her home. Earlier this year, crime prevention advisers helped Mrs Men Yee Lai after a burglary at her home. Brian Taylorson from the

  • Battle to beat the drop

    URMSTON Cricket Club's first eleven are still fighting to stay in the Murray Smith ECB Cheshire County Premier League after producing their best batting performance of the season against high flying Alderley Edge on Saturday. Urmston skipper, Rob Tootell

  • Bobby is an arresting sight

    A STATION cat, according to police jargon, is an officer who does not want to go out on the beat and instead hangs around the station. And Altrincham police station has its very own station cat, which they've nicknamed Bobby. The all black moggie has

  • Parents urged to support charity

    OLIVER'S Army's organiser Angela Gray is calling on mums and dads whose children may have been treated at Trafford General hospital to come out and support the charity's ball. The charity, set up five years ago to save children's services at Trafford

  • Dad dies after crash

    A FAMILY is mourning the death of a father of seven who died when his motorbike became trapped under a car. Robert Levy, aged 32, from Sale, was riding n S registered Kawasaki ZX9R on Liverpool Road, Cadishead, when the vehicle was in collision with the

  • Elizabeth reaches a milestone

    IT was a landmark day for former Stretford resident Elizabeth Altree last Thursday when she celebrated her hundredth birthday. Centenarian Elizabeth marked the occasion with family and friends at her home in Sale and SUM was there to hear memories of