MANCHESTER Phoenix player coach Tony Hand has swooped for Canadian power forward Andre Payette. The 32-year-old comes to Manchester with a sackful of experience, including 155 games in the American Hockey League (AHL) while also spending the past four
A PARTINGTON dad and his three year old daughter plunged 50ft to their deaths as a family holiday to Wales ended in tragedy at the weekend. James Gallacher, 35, and daughter Soraya, together fell down a steep embankment into a fast flowing river at
RUMOURS that a body found with stab wounds in the brook behind Kersal Rugby Club have been denied by police. This came after two readers contacted Messenger amid talk that police had cordoned off the area, near Beech Fields, in Timperley, on Friday.
THE Digital UK switchover roadshow will visit Sale next week. The event will give viewers the chance to find out more about the UK’s switch to digital television Digit Al, the switchover robot, will join the roadshow team, as they offer practical advice
TRAFFORD residents are being warned against using door-to-door traders after a spate of incidents. In the past month Trading Standards has received 10 complaints of rogue traders offering to do gardening work, roofing, paving and other odd jobs. The
BUDDING young artists from Sale Grammar School found were celebrating their achievements in the ‘Art Meets Science’ challenge. Year 9 and 12 pupils at the Marlborough Road school were challenged to develop a unique, relevant and contemporary
A WOMAN was injured after her car flipped over on Flixton’s Moorside Road. Fire crews from Stretford had to free the woman who was trapped in the wreckage at 7.20am on Monday, July 13. No other vehicles were involved, and the woman was taken by ambulance
WHILE crime levels have fallen in Trafford over the past year, burglaries have risen by five per cent. As the Home Office announced the annual crime figures for 2008/09, GMP has vowed to ensure burglars are brought to justice. Detective
A PROJECT aimed at showing people how the probation service and courts operate together has launched in Trafford. Called Local Crime Community Sentences, the project involves magistrates and probation staff giving live demonstrations to community groups
A CONVICTED killer, whose last known address was Stretford, has handed himself in after absconding from a Derbyshire open prison. William Reddican, 56, was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 1982 for murder. He was released from the
STAFF were terrified when a gang of armed men made violent threats and stole cigarettes and cash from a Sale shop. At about 8.25pm on Friday (July 17), three men, one armed with a knife, went into Threshers Off Licence, on Marsland Road. The men forced
TRAFFORD Housing Trust (THT) helped cook up community spirit at 21 of its sheltered housing schemes, as part of the national Big Lunch event. The aim of the initiative, which took place on Sunday, was to help bring communities together over a spot of
