A GLENN Miller evening lacked just one vital ingredient - a number or two by the big band legend.

Two hundred devotees of the 1940s showman packed into a Trafford hotel found there was not a big band performing - just two musicians - a keyboard player and a drummer - plus a singer.

And 'Moonlight Serenade', 'In the Mood' and other Glenn Miller tunes were conspicuous by their absence from the repertoire at the event at Cresta Court Hotel in Altrincham and many guests left early.

Former long-standing Bucklow ward councillor Ken Rogers, of Buttermere Road, Partington, says: ""The evening did not feature Glenn Miller at all. They didn't play any of his music, just tea dance music."

Paul Hindley, the manager at Cresta Court, said customers had been reimbursed. He said: "The original band could not fulfil the contract and farmed it out. I have written to everyone personally to offer my apologies."

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