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  • Novelist visits home to tell his story

    A NOVELIST will be discussing the latest chapters in his life as part of National Story Telling Week. Paul Beatty will be attending the special event at Sunrise Care Home in Hale Barns from 3pm to 4pm on January 30 with residents, friends, family

  • LETTER: Our NHS provides world-class care

    I WAS disappointed by the comments made in the letters page of January 10 criticising everything about the local NHS, especially when some were not prepared to disclose their name, just their opinions. I am a member of Blesma and am under the direct

  • LETTER: We will lose a lot of land to merciless developers

    DESPITE Andy Burnham's mitigation changes, we still stand to lose a lot of our open space to the merciless developers. It is ironic that despite all the correct concern about poor local air quality, we then plan destroy large local green areas which

  • First shoppers explore new supermarket

    THE doors to the new Lidl supermarket opened for the first time yesterday. The store, in Chester Road, Stretford, occupies the the former PC World. The first customers attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 8am and were able to sample some of

  • New classes help people achieve fitness goals

    NEW holistic classes are being held at Altrincham Leisure Centre after feedback from customers Trafford Leisure has launched a new timetable which includes 47 group exercise classes a week, with more evening and early morning sessions. The new

  • LETTER: We need to vote on reality and not fantasy of Brexit

    IN June, 2016, the UK voted by a narrow margin to leave the EU ­— we can’t ignore this fact. If the 52 per cent voted for one thing, it must be the most prominent promise, the one on the side of the bus, that the UK would be £350 million per week