CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Manchester music venue the Night & Day Café continuing fight against a Noise Abatement Notice served by Manchester City Council last year, and 5 Seconds Of Summer’s feelings about winning the Worst Band prize at the NME Awards three years in a row.SECTION TIMES01: Night & Day Café (00:09:52)02: 5 Seconds Of Summer (00:26:14)(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)SUBSCRIBE TO SETLISTListen to Setlist and sign up to receive new episodes for free automatically each week through any of these services…Acast | Amazon Music | Apple Podcasts | audioBoom | CastBox | Deezer | Google Podcasts | iHeart | Mixcloud | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneInSTORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK• Manchester music venue Night & Day Café facing closure as it continues to fight noise complaint• 5 Seconds Of Summer discuss being voted Worst Band at NME Awards three timesALSO MENTIONED• Apple Music increases baseline subscription rate to 10.99• Night & Day Café petition (Change.org)• James Blunt demands NME award he won thirteen years ago (May 2019)MORE FROM CMU• Upcoming CMU webinars• Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon• Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin• Listen to the full Setlist theme tune
Gang stole £800,000 worth of Range Rovers in terrifying crime spree targeting leafy villages
14.10.2022 - 20:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A gang stole Range Rovers worth £800,000 during a month long crime spree targeting leafy villages. Some drivers had their cars stolen just minutes after parking up and thinking they'd left the vehicles secure.
But the thieves used sophisticated technology including signal jammers to allow them to drive off with the expensive cars, worth between £65,000 and £100,000. The gang struck ten times in almost a month, mainly in leafy villages including Alderley Edge and Hale Barns, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Some were stolen from supermarket car parks including Booths and Waitrose, in town centres or from driveways. One man had driven to Hale to collect his prescription in his £80,000 Range Rover, only to return five minutes later to find two men in his car.
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He was pushed away by one of them before the thief slammed the door shut and sped away. A judge said the crime was 'tantamount to a robbery'.
The ten cars stolen were worth around £800,000, prosecutors said. Some vehicles have not been recovered. Five members of the gang, from Rochdale, Oldham and Longsight, have now been brought to justice after CCTV and cell site evidence pinned them to various thefts.
"The speed with which these cars were stolen having been identified demonstrates the planning and targeting of this conspiracy," Judge Sarah Johnston said. She told the gang: "You worked as a team. It was planned offending, it was targeted offending.
"You caused distress and you caused fear. This offending is motivated only by greed."
Michael Andrews, 33, Jonathan Langley, 28, Faisel Hussain, 29, and Nazish Shakeel, 30, were all locked up, while Shaun Andrews, 28, avoided jail. The thefts
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