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1. This is the daytime nightclub
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 2 March 2006TWO promoters are taking advantage of the new licensing laws by launching a "nightclub" which will run from 11am to 5pm on Sundays. The Milk Round hopes to attract people whose work means that they are unable to get out on a Saturday night to traditional night spots.
2. Save the green, green grass of Hulme
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 2 March 2006PROTESTERS who unsuccessfully opposed the decision to develop Hulme's Birley Fields are rallying again to defend the remainder of the site from the developers.
3. Why didn't cops act quicker?
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 23 February 2006SHAUN Thompson was able to provide police with a full registration number for the car which hit his and then drove away. He was, therefore surprised, and angry, that police did not act faster on his information and eventually found that the other driver had left the address the car was registered to.
4. Cost of keeping tax rises below 5%
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 23 February 2006COUNCIL leaders have kept this year's council tax rises below the 5 per cent which, it is believed, would have led to government capping. But the cost of doing could be the end of a promising fledgling musical career for one Stockport youngster.
5. Richard delighted to be all at sea again
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 16 February 2006RICHARD Bertie is about to ignore the combined effects of osteoporosis and Crohn's Disease a renew his love affair with sailing as part of a charity crew at Britain's biggest yachting event.
6. Gang hitman handed my family a life sentence
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 16 February 2006THE mother of a teenager mistakenly murdered in a gangland hit says that the killers have destroyed her family and handed her a life sentence of misery.
7. Council admits 'We were the fly tippers'
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 9 February 2006STOCKPORT Council threatened David Johnson with court action, a £50,000 fine and even prison in a row over rubbish which they said he had fly tipped in a car park. Council officials were then forced into an embarrassing climbdown after admitting that the rubbish had actually been put there by their own contractors.
8. Throwaway bags will be a new art spectacle
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 9 February 2006CARRIER bags, collected along Oxford Road in Manchester, are to be turned into a major new artwork which will then grace the city thoroughfare. Textile artist Lynn Setterington is the woman behind the original piece of work.
9. Workout puts the kids on their toes
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 2 February 2006PUPILS at a Sale school have an energetic start to the day, thanks to a full aerobic session led by one of the teachers.
10. Young gardeners revive graveyard
Manchester Metro News, Thursday 2 February 2006IT LOOKED like the end when a rent rise forced Poynton junior gardening club out of their home base. Instead they were invited to meet at a local church as long as they put their skills towards tending to overgrown graves.