Manchester United have already been told what it would take to bring Benfica striker Darwin Nunez to Old Trafford.
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Violence, threats and verbal abuse – that is the day-to-day reality for tip workers who handle our waste and recycling across Greater Manchester. Rubbish removal gangs who try to dump their trade waste at household waste recycling centres are the main cause of trouble at the tips, according to staff.
The source of tension is that trade waste is not supposed to be dumped for free at taxpayer-funded tips which are provided for household rubbish only. But sometimes people snap just for being told which skip they need to use.
Now, a new system which requires vans to register for permits and limits the number of tip visits to 18 times a year has been rolled out – and it's working. The permit scheme, which was launched across all tips in Greater Manchester in December, follows other measures such as security barriers and bodycams introduced by Suez which took over the city-region's waste contract in 2019.
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But staff say before these measures were brought in, their work environment was a very different place with many people choosing to leave the profession. Around two years ago, one tip worker was left with a broken jaw and required surgery after being physically assaulted at the Longley Lane site in Sharston.
A female worker was forced off her site by a stalker who turned up every day. And one staff member at Spring Vale Recycling Centre in Middleton was even followed home by a man who was banned from the site for tipping trade waste.
However, before the barriers were installed, offenders would come to the tips knowing that they could not be forcibly removed until the police turned up by which point they would have
Manchester United have already been told what it would take to bring Benfica striker Darwin Nunez to Old Trafford.
Haim has discussed her meetings with Beyoncé, including one particular occasion that she’ll “never forget”.The Licorice Pizza actor and Haim singer/guitarist was speaking to Andy Cohen on his Watch What Happens Live talk show on Monday (May 16) alongside sister Este when she was asked about the band being signed to Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation management company early in their career.“I think the thing that was the most mind-blowing about being on Roc Nation is that when we would be in, like, a huge crowd of people, Jay-Z and Beyoncé would pick us out of a crowd and, like, hug us, which was, like, a very crazy experience,” Alana told Cohen.She added: “There was one moment I’ll never forget. We were at the Grammys.
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Greater Manchester Police are keen to learn the whereabouts of missing person Sara McDermott. The 33-year-old woman was last seen leaving Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport at 11.50am on Friday, May 13.
Love In The Flesh star Joe Kellett, who briefly appeared as a single on the first series of the BBC Three reality show.We're not going to lie, Joe didn't get the screen time he deserved, so we're more than happy to believe that he might be part of the original Love Island 2022 line-up.Another face that was teased was Toby, who recently appeared on another ITV show Ready To Mingle.One user commented, "Toby was on a show called ready to mingle- he had a girlfriend on the show if I recall."It's worth mentioning that Love Island rarely features contestants that have starred on other TV show, with 2018 winner Dani Dyer the only Islander to have appeared on another show, Survival Of The Fittest.Toby and Joe aren't the only rumoured 2022 contestants, Pete Wicks' friend, influencer Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Zara McDermott's brother Brad are also in the potential line-up.According to reports, Love Island will start on Monday 6 June and we are so ready for the show's return. It will likely start at 9pm and will air on ITV2.Love Island 2021 cast: their jobs before the show - sliderKaz Kamwi - fashion influencerBefore heading into the villa, Kaz was already an influencer (with 71k followers) and could have been earning up to £1,000 per post.
Blossoms’ gig in Stockport last night (May 3) was interrupted by a fire alarm, causing the venue to be temporarily evacuated.The band were due to play a hometown show at the Stockport Plaza after premiering their Ribbon Around The Bomb film, which is accompanying their new album of the same name.Before the band went on stage, however, the Plaza’s fire alarm went off, forcing an evacuation of the audience.Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, one audience member said: “Blossoms weren’t on yet. There’s a film on promoting their new album and they cut that short, and someone came on and said, ‘Due to circumstances out of our control our alarms have gone off and we will have to evacuate the building’.”Sorry about the fire alarm that went off at @StockportPlaza1.
Police have today confirmed that a body found in a forest is missing mum Katie Kenyon. The devastating discovery was made in the Forest of Boland on Friday evening shortly after police were given new information about where to search for the mother-of-two.