CHILDREN’S favourites Charlie and Lola are to spend Christmas in Trafford - bringing their Extremely New Play to the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale. The show follows the success of Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play, which delighted youngsters
PARAMEDICS and firefighters helped a 100-year-old woman who had fallen out of bed in Ashton-on-Mersey. Emergency services were called to her home, on Woodhouse Lane, at around 10.30pm last night. Firefighters were able to free the woman
A RUGBY-playing policeman baked his own wedding cake, 84 cupcakes and another for his birthday as he prepared for his marriage ceremony in Urmston last week. Adam Wilkinson, 30, of Flixton Road, who ventured into baking for the first time with
IT isn’t raining men at the Opera House for the next few weeks, but it is certainly raining. Twelve thousand litres of the wet stuff pours down on the stage, to recreate the scene from the iconic 1952 film Singin’ In The Rain. The story centres on the
A MAN has been arrested for attempted murder after a man was attacked with a machete in Altrincham. Shortly before 7.55pm on November 12, police were called by the ambulance service to Lloyd Gardens, where paramedics were treating a man with
A CHARITY based at Wythenshawe Hospital which is committed to eradicating Breast Cancer has raised £5,000 at its October Tea Party.. Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention (GBCP) – the UK’s only charity dedicated entirely to the prediction and prevention
LORETO Grammar School singers are not nervous about singing in front of a worldwide audience of 25 million for the Rugby League World Cup Final. Olivia Herron said: “It's not the people in their sitting rooms that worry you, it's the 75,000 crowd you
SALE High students Liam Dodd, Daniyal Majoka, Kayleigh Pheonix, Eve Woods and Ben Nettleton attended Moorlands Primary School this month to help run their annual musical soiree for parents which sees pupils playing a wide range of instruments from the
AN ALTRINCHAM opticians helped raise money for charity last week when its staff dressed in all pink. The Specsavers store in Altrincham managed to raise a total of £157 for Breast Cancer Care. As well as dressing in pink-coloured outfits, fundraising
A SINGLE mum from Urmston is appealing for sponsorship to help her daughter turn her modelling dream into reality. Bayley-Rio Sibthorpe, 14, has reached the final of the Miss Teen Galaxy England Pageant and needs cash to pay for outfits to wear during
DICK and Dom praised an award-winning independent bookstore as they signed copies of their new book for hundreds of excited children in Urmston last Friday. Known to a generation of kids for their zany antics on a string of hit BBC shows, the comedy
TEN years ago, Concorde touch down at Manchester Airport for the last time and subsequently went on display at the airport’s Runway Visitor Park. The retired turbojet went on display in April 2004 alongside an Avro RJX and Monarch DC-10 nose and
THE Partington Pledge, which aims to get more young people around Trafford into employment, has received arguably its most high-profile partner to date – Manchester United. The pledge was originally launched in April 2013 and has to date help 85
BLOOD donations are being held in the Flixton, Sale and Stretford areas throughout December and support would be appreciated in helping raise awareness. Details are as follows: St. Matthew’s Hall, Chapel Lane, Stretford M32 9AJ on Monday December
