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An ex-Trafford council employee who swindled the town hall out of thousands of pounds to pay off his drug debts has avoided jail.
John Buckley exploited the cycle-to-work scheme to pay off debts built up from his '£200 a day' cocaine and Xanax habit, a court heard.
The 25-year-old, from Chorlton-on-Medlock, approved six fraudulent applications for himself with vouchers totalling £6,000.
He redeemed the
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straight to your inboxPep Guardiola says he wants Joao Cancelo to move into midfield to guard against the counter-attack and defend 'with the ball'.Cancelo has been excellent this season for Manchester City, and has impressed with his performances from full-back that see him regularly move into a defensive midfield position when the Blues have possession to link up with his attacking teammates from the centre.The 'inverted full-back' role has been likened to Guardiola's use of Phillip Lahm at
direct to your inboxAt the crack of dawn on a May morning in 1990 a convoy of official cars crawled up the hill from Middleton to the sprawling council estate of Langley.Once there, police officers and social workers converged on five homes.Kids were roused from their beds, hurriedly dressed and taken off in tears as their distressed parents looked on in shock.It was the start of a barely believable nightmare for six families accused by social service workers of being involved in the satanic