Articles
-
4 days ago |
yahoo.com | Paul Burnell |Mat Trewern
Up to 50 people had to be rescued when a fire broke out in a block of flats. The blaze, in Rynet Court in Marsh House Lane, Warrington, was tackled by more than 30 firefighters. It broke out at about 17:20 GMT, and crews from across Cheshire were called to try to bring the blaze under control.
-
3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Mat Trewern
Baby drowned in bath while parents on phone callsMat TrewernBBCManchester City Council said it was learning lessons from the 'heart-breaking' caseAn unsupervised baby drowned in the bath after social services failed to respond properly to "considerable evidence" of widespread child neglect, an investigation has concluded. Theo Taylor-Maloney, who was 11 months old, died in Manchester in October 2020 after he was left in the bath for 12 minutes without adult supervision.
-
1 month ago |
bbc.com | Mat Trewern
'We dropped chocolate for children despite orders'Mat TrewernBBCJeff Brown, 99, served as a gunner on a Lancaster Bomber An RAF veteran has described how British aircrew disobeyed orders to air-drop chocolates and sweets for starving Dutch children in the final days of World War Two. Speaking during VE Day commemoration, 99-year-old Jeff Brown recalled his part in Operation Manna, an aid mission to feed millions of people facing famine in the German-occupied Netherlands in May 1945.
-
1 month ago |
bbc.co.uk | Jonny Manning |Mat Trewern
Image caption, Arthur Ferguson still plays an active role in the business he started with his wife 70 years ago BBC News, North East and CumbriaA 100-year-old shopkeeper who has been in business for more than seven decades says he may consider retiring "in a year or two". Arthur Ferguson and his wife Cicely turned a former bakery in Millom, Cumbria, into a haberdashery in the 1950s, and since then it has become a steadfast part of the community.
-
1 month ago |
bbc.com | Mat Trewern |Ewan Gawne
Turning sewage into the world's strongest materialMat Trewern & Ewan GawneBBCThe technology is using human waste to create fuel and a wonder materialTechnology that can turn sludge from sewage into both hydrogen fuel and the miracle material graphene is being tested in what has been described as a "world first" trial in Manchester. United Utilities is working with British climate tech firm Levidian on the project at its Davyhulme sewage works in Trafford.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →Coverage map
X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 847
- Tweets
- 2K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @jpaine951: “You cannot stop because you had a failure”. How Brazil came back from one of the deadliest space-related disasters in hist…
Happy 30th anniversary to @MustardTreeMCR One of Manchester’s many great charities. And thanks for allowing me to speak to just a few of the people you’ve helped and continue to help over the years. https://t.co/pLHodAHxm5
RT @BBCRadioManc: Cancellations, resignations and angry fans. BBC Radio Manchester looks into what's gone wrong with the troubled Co-op L…