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Hucknall Tn 1
Trafford 1 TRAFFORD Football Club severly dented the championship aspirations of Hucknall Town on Saturday when the teams drew 1-1 in an intriging Unibond League Division One clash at Nottingham. Hucknall set off like a house on fire with quicksilver
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Robin throws weight behind campaign
WORLD famous boxing star Robin Reid paid a visit to SUM's offices last week to draw the winning tickets in a raffle raising money for Francis House Children's Hospice. For the super-middleweight fighter took time out from the build up to his summer bout
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Museum aims to remember Holocaust victims
TRAFFORD could soon be the home to a new multi-million pound museum dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The Shoah Centre is earmarked for the site on Trafford Wharf Road which is set to be the base for the Lowry Centre and the Imperial
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Bob's home from home
THE ADVENTURES of Bob the cat, who went missing from his Davyhulme home, have come to a happy end, as he has been reunited with his family! SUM reported last week on the Baxter family who were devastated after they lost their year-old female cat, Bob,
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Be on guard
DETECTIVES are warning people to be on their guard after a spate of muggings in Old Trafford. The victims of the street bandits range from pensioners to teenagers. Det Sgt Phil Wrenn, of Stretford crime management unit, says: "The street robberies situation
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Inexcusable - council slams Metrolink fares rise
METROLINK bosses have been slammed for 'arrogance' and massive fare increases. Labour members of Trafford Council have condemned 'inexcusable' increases affecting people travelling between the borough and the city centre. Cllr Barbara Keeley-Huggett told
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Work is a labour of love for Margaret
MARGARET Seaton can start work at 8am, clock off after 11pm and her salary is exactly £0 a year. But long hours are a price worth paying for a woman who has devoted the last 12 years to caring for animals in distress. As the RSPCA's home and welfare co-ordinator
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It's all going swimmingly...
Trafford man David Prior is into the second month of an adventure of a lifetime - a four months round-the-world trip taking in some of the most exotic locations on the globe. This is the second of his reports on his travels. ALOHA from Hawaii, home to
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RUGBY
Stockport 14 v Altrincham Kersal 10 NO matter what the result of this final league match of the season between the two clubs was going to be, it would have no effect on league positions. They would still be first and second and both are guaranteed promotion
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Gateshead 0
Altrincham 1 by Mike Crockett at Gateshead International Stadium. MOST of us with more than a passing interest in football agree that ten men can be harder to play against than eleven. Famously, England took Argentina all the way to penalties in the World
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Altrincham Aces
Leader of the Pack calls it a day! THE Altrincham Aces have now completed their 1998/99 ice hockey season and have turned their attention to a well-earned summer break. But for one important Ace however the end of the season marks the end of an era, as
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Uniform changes anger sixth formers
SIXTH FORM students at a school in Timperley were up in arms when their dress-code was radically changed just months after they started a new term. Students at New Wellington sent several letters to SAM expressing their dismay at what they called "false
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Residents join in tree rage
A MAJOR building firm has come under fire from residents after 'butchering' a row of conifers in Timperley. Residents are furious Redrow Homes took saws to the long row of leylandii near Brooks Drive - pruning the tall conifers back to just eight feet
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Trafford bids for holocaust museum
TRAFFORD could soon be the home to a new multi-million pound museum paying tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. The Shoah Centre is earmarked for the site on Trafford Wharf Road which is set to be the base for the Lowry Centre and the Imperial War
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Clear up this mess
A FED-up resident claims a litter-strewn alley has been left unattended for years. But now the passage on Conway Road in Sale Moor is set to be spruced up - thanks to Grotspots. Pat Harris, of Chinley Close, told the Grotspots campaign that the debris
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Plastic windows must go
AN EIGHTY one year old man could be forced to scrap the £1,000 plastic windows he had fitted at his home - because they don't blend in with a conservation area. Planning bosses have refused permission for the windows to stay in place at James Brennan's
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Plans boost shop centre
TWO major proposals to expand and develop Sale's town centre shopping precinct have been given the green light. Six Acre Investments have won approval to build a part single-storey part two storey L-shaped building on land fronting Springfield Road to
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Lollipop lady dies after accident
A SCHOOL lollipop lady knocked down in the line of duty died in hospital late on Monday night. Margaret Steindorff, from Sale, had been involved in collision with a van as she guided pupils from St Hugh's Primary School across Park Road in Timperley earlier
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House fire kills couple
AN ELDERLY couple died in a fierce blaze at their Sale home. Firefighters broke into the house on Briarlands Avenue and found Pat and Eric Pemberton in separate first floor bedrooms. Eric, 87, had already died but Pat, in her late 70s, was still alive
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VOTERS ON A WILD BOOTH CHASE
ELECTION organisers have been left red-faced - after they sent out voting cards which direct people AWAY from their polling stations. Voters in one ward are directed to a road a quarter of a mile from their station. They are correctly instructed that
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URMSTON Ladies Hockey 1st team won their last game of the season by nine goals to one, securing seco
Urmston played Littleborough and took control of the game from the opening whistle. Becky Dibben opened the scoring with a well-placed goal from the edge of the area. A slight loss of concentration resulted in an equalising goal from Littleborough, but
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Urmston Hockey Club
URMSTON Junior Hockey Club was celebrating the success of their teams last weekend. The U13s became the Lancashire League Champions beating northern champions Blackburn 6-0 and southern clubs Southport 2-1 in the rounds and Formby 3-2 in the final. Captain
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Teachers fear sack as schools lose cash
A ROW has broken out over claims that teachers are facing the sack as a result of budget cuts across Trafford. But council leaders insist that they have increased the overall education budgtet by £5 million and some schools are losing money because of
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Fowl play
VANDALS struck at a pet corner in Stretford over night on Monday leaving a trail of destruction behind them. And the man who looks after the animals at Longford Park says that the culprits are just 'mindless morons'. Several young chickens, two guinea
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Thought for the Week
LAST summer I rescued a small grey frog which, in its search for water, had become trapped in the debris of a sunken drain. I carefully placed it in a shady spot in the garden and decided to make it more comfortable by giving it a shower with the watering
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Pelican AFC
Silver Success for Pelican SATURDAY saw both Pelican teams acquire some silverware for the trophy cabinet. The first eleven secured the Altrincham Saturday League title for the second year running and the reserve side lifted the Broadheath Trophy after
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Jacksons Boat FC
Brooklands Tap 1 v Jacksons Boat 0 THIS top of the table clash turned out to be a highly entertaining hard fought contest. A great result for the Tap although the Boat can consider themselves a little unlucky to come out of the game with nothing to show
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Aspull 20 v Ashton on Mersey 8
FOLLOWING Saturdays 8-20 defeat at Aspull, Ashton-on-Mersey Rugby Club are now second from bottom in North West 1 League and the majority of members knowing that the team cannot reach the safe 10th position, were under the impression that relegation was
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DOUBLE OR QUITS?
BERNARD Taylor never promised to bring cups to Moss Lane. They are a superb added bonus, but the club's main aim has always been to gain promotion. In fact, Bernard said that if promotion was not achieved this season, he would step aside, and let someone
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Chief checks plan vote
A COUNCIL chief at Trafford Council is investigating a complaint into how the Labour group voted on a planning issue. Labour councillors on the development control committee rejected a bid for a housing scheme at the Temple Lawn Tennis and Social Club's
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Tesco plan freezes out ice rink
A SCHEME to open a new state of the art ice rink in Altrincham has been frozen out - for the time being at least. After months of deliberation, council chiefs have decided not to back a joint plan by Altrincham Ice Rink and Morbaine Ltd, which included
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Residents demand a say
AN ALTRINCHAM residents' group is calling on council chiefs to consult fully over development schemes for the town centre. The Oakfield and surrounding area residents committee spoke out after Tesco was chosen as the preferred tenderer to develop a site
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Council and force combine to maker car parks no-go zone for vehicle thieves
CAR parks can be a regular feature of 'hotspot' statistics when it comes to car crime - with latest figures showing that a third of all reported incidents happen in car parks. The concentration of vehicles in a small area has prompted calls from motorists
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Refugees are welcome here
TRAFFORD has put in place contingency plans to take refugees from war-torn Kosovo. The borough has responded to a request from the Home Office by pinpointing empty council property across the borough that could be used to house them. Council chief executive
