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Housing benefit changes
CHANGES to the way housing benefit is distributed will come into force this year. The council's benefits team is preparing for the biggest single change in housing benefits legislation since the scheme was first established in 1987. The housing allowance
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Jones: 'No excuse is good enough'
KINGSLEY Jones has told Sale's players they have no excuses for recent poor performances. Last week's 14-14 draw in Montpellier came as a major disappointment to the Edgeley Park side, scuppering their chances of becoming top seed for the knock-out stages
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Man has finger sliced off during Sale house robbery
A MAN was attacked in his own home by knife-wielding robbers, who sliced his finger off. Shortly before 7pm on Wednesday 23 January 2008, the 54-year-old answered the door to his home in Pinewood, Sale, and was confronted by two masked men. One of them
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St Joseph pupils roll up to meet former Quo
Former Status Quo drummer Jeff Rich visited St Joseph Primary, Sale, for a drum and percussion workshop on Moday afternoon. On the drums with Jeff are juniors Abbie, nine, Daniel, eight, Daniel, 11, and Alise, aged eight.
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Lupe Fiasco, The Cool
JUST when you thought hip hop had reached its peak and slipped into a mundane homogenous sludge, along comes Lupe Fiasco's second LP The Cool to state it's case. There is something enticing about the sound that isn't all together gangster-related despite
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Charity needs your old mobile phones
MEDEQUIP4KIDS is appealing for people to donate unwanted mobile phones. Money raised by recycling the handsets will be put towards providing specialist paediatric equipment for hospitals across the north west, ensuring the region's children receive the
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Albert Place set to move
SOCIAL services chiefs are to close a day centre for people with learning difficulties in Altrincham and replace it with a new one in Timperley. The 56 people who attend Albert Place day centre will be moved to refurbished premises in the soon-to-be
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Wanted Trafford man hands himself in
A WANTED Trafford man - who has been on the run since November - handed himself in earlier this morning following a media appeal. Steven Lee Mulgrew, aged 27, of Cornbrook Way, Old Trafford, was wanted in connection with a robbery at Vic's Corner Shop
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Rain, rain go away
What has happened to the weather??? I've had enough of these 13 days of RAIN! Stupidly I decided last week to go to Centre Parks with the kids; all I can say is thanks for that dome, without it I think I would have drowned. Honestly, it was really
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Hero mum rescues pensioner
AN heroic Flixton resident was quick to take action when she saw a pensioner slumped over his steering wheel and apparently unconscious. Mum of two Beverley Lynch, 40, of Haslemere Road, was driving along Woodsend Road in Davyhulme on Tuesday, January
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Wildlife stall in Altrincham
MEMBERS of Cheshire Wildlife Trust will be manning a stall in Sainsbury's at Sale on February 7 and Sainsbury's in Altrincham on February 8. They will be telling shoppers about the works of the trust, provide information about wildlife and show people
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New crew will park for you
MANCHESTER Airport has launched a valet parking scheme. Passengers are now able to pull up in a dedicated enclosure and hand over their car keys to a team of valet parkers before jetting off on holiday or business. The valets then park the cars in a
