THE Home Office has awarded £100,000 to Greater Manchester Police so it can open a new centre that will give psychological support and mentoring to vulnerable teenagers who regularly go missing from home. The centre will be the first of its kind
MARLBOROUGH Road Allotments, Marlborough Road, Flixton, is holding an Open Day on August 3 at 2pm. Visitors will be able to see the winning entries from the allotment's Annual Vegetable & Flower Show and many of them will be available to buy
A MOTHERS' Union Jumble Sale will be held at St Clement's Parish Hall, Manor Avenue, Urmston, on August 2 from 2pm to 4pm. Admission is 30p and refreshments will be available. There is also ample car parking nearby and the organisers promise visitors
A TEENAGE diver is hoping to entice Stretford shoppers into an underwater world of adventure.Keen scuba diver Jared Logan, one of the youngest members of the Sub C Divers branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC), is promoting the ‘amazing&rsquo
M.Y.T Productions, the company founded by Flixton's Joe Meighan, presents Harold Pinter's Betrayal at Z-Arts Theatre, Hulme, Manchester, on August 2 at 3pm and 8pm. Anyone interested in booking tickets priced £10 should call 0161 232 6089 or online
AN award-winning artist has donated a sculpture worth £20,000 to help raise funds for a little boy from Hale who has a highly degenerative genetic disease.Ever since three-year-old David Dee was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) more
CHILDREN at a Bowdon nursery were able to be firefighters for the morning when a crew from Altrincham Fire Station paid them a visit recently. Lisa Bell, from the Mulberry Bush Preschool, said the fire service visit was particularly special, as
He might be behind bars, but that doesn't mean Coronation Street's Jim McDonald will cause any less trouble when he returns to the soap. Peter Barlow, currently in the clink after being wrongly arrested for Tina McIntyre's death, will come face-to-face
Lee Sinnott made vastly-experienced former Rochdale midfielder Peter Cavanagh his fifth summer signing on Tuesday night and confidently declared: "This is now the strongest squad I"ve had at Altrincham." After completing the deal at tea-time
DETECTIVES in Trafford are investigating an arson attack after a bottle containing an accelerant was thrown though a window. Four children and an adult who were in the Broadheath house at the time were not harmed. At around 2.45pm on July 28
AN Altrincham bar owner has been ordered to pay a fine for playing music at his premises without a licence even though he now has one. Since the proprietor of Nick’s Lounge at 46 Railway Street, Altrincham, was caught playing the music when he
