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  • 1 day ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Damon Wilkinson |Andrew Bardsley

    Joe O'Brien, 24, died after an Easter night out took a dark turnIt was the Easter weekend. Momodou Jallow and Daniel Kamara were out enjoying themselves. A barbecue at Kamara's house was followed by drinks with friends at Club 409 in Failsworth. Spirits were high and by all accounts the atmosphere in the club was good. But for some unknown reason 21-year-old Jallow was carrying a knife. If trouble broke out, however minor, it drastically increased the chances that someone would get seriously hurt.

  • 2 days ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Damon Wilkinson

    Julian Barker, 50, sent images of a child and took part in 'sexualised' conversations while working as a supply teacher in BoltonA supply teacher who sent vile sexual messages about children was arrested in an undercover police sting, a disciplinary tribunal heard. Julian Barker, 50, has now been banned from the classroom indefinitely.

  • 2 days ago | lancs.live | Damon Wilkinson

    One began a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss who gave her a £12,000 Mercedes as a gift. Another smuggled drugs behind bars for her locked-up lover while others had relationships with inmates who were jailed for murder. These are the female prison officers and bosses who were supposed to be guarding killers, armed robbers and gangsters - but ended up falling for them instead.

  • 2 days ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Damon Wilkinson |Emma Dunn

    Benji Sandham weighed just 1lbs 14oz when he was born 13 weeks early on April 17, 2024Little Benji Sandham was the same size as his toy bunny when he was born 13 weeks early. But just look at him now. Benji, now 11 months old, weighed just 1lbs 14oz when he was born on April 17, 2024. At just two days old he had to have emergency surgery to repair a hole in his bowel and spent 10 weeks in hospital, gaining his strength.

  • 2 days ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Damon Wilkinson |Ted Hennessey PA

    There have been 115 blazes this yearLast weekend, as we basked in temperatures hotter than Barcelona, dozens of firefighters battled two huge moor fires on the hills above Greater Manchester. Crews from the across the north west fought fierce flames in woodland off Woodhead Road in Glossop, and on land surrounding March Haigh Reservoir in Marsden, near to Denshaw. Just a day earlier another moorland blaze near Tor Hill in Haslingden, Lancs, was put out.

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