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direct to your inboxWhen Charlie Bell was given an 85-year-old football medal by a friend he decided to do some research.The ex soldier saw there was a military link and wanted to reunite it with the family of the original owner.His pal had bought it 20 years ago at a market in Manchester for £2.Charlie found out that the person it was awarded to, John 'Jack' Carley, was from Rossendale.The memento was embossed with 'Command Senior Association Football League' with '1935-36 Runners up 10th Field
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direct to your inboxThey are becoming the foundation for many criminal enterprises - children.Their exploitation is a key way in which profits are made from supplying drugs and even moving firearms.Gangsters groom them with 'love'', attention, blackmail, cash, or a new pair of trainers.Once in their grip they are sent from Greater Manchester to rural towns up and down the UK to sell weed, heroin, crack, and cocaine.In inner-city Manchester, children as young as 15 have been armed with guns by
direct to your inboxFrom the drug-fuelled speeding BMW driver who killed a teenage girl as she walked to school - before trying to blame her after driving off - to the fraudster jailed for stealing £136,000 from a solicitor's firm using an elderly dementia sufferer's bank account.These are some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester in January.The region's courts have given out hefty prison sentences for all manner of crimes last month with M.E.N.
direct to your inbox A woman from Manchester says she has been waiting over six months for a holiday refund from Teletext Holidays. Tanya Rowe from Fallowfield paid £1,284.75 for a trip to Kusadasi in Turkey with her mum as a family break away.
straight to your inboxThe darting, dancing ten-year-old was way too good for Middlesbrough’s kids, scoring four or five goals for Manchester City without breaking sweat.So Blues academy coach Steve Eyre, handling the under-14s on an adjacent pitch, made the bold decision to test the prodigious kid by taking him out of the under-tens – who were leading 10-0 - and chucking him in with his big boys.Boro coach Jamie Pollock – the former City midfielder - and the referees of both games, agreed it was
direct to your inboxHe arrived from his scarred homeland a lonely, traumatised boy.He left behind the olive groves of Idlib, his parents, and three of his brothers.Soon the Syrian city he fled would be devastated by air strikes as it became a final frontier in a civil war which in March will be a decade old.He reached England by first travelling by boat to Greece and then a flight to the UK.Since the age of five Mohammad Kak has had a dream.As a refugee he found a new 'family' at Manchester
straight to your inbox every day for freeIn the talkSPORT radio studios — a holy site for purveyors of no-nonsense, laddy banter — David Moyes found himself being asked a strangely personal question. When was the last time he cried?"Oh... err... Probably when I lost my job at Manchester United". A bit of awkward laughter followed.It was never meant to go this way for Manchester United's 'Chosen One', anointed to be the successor to Sir Alex Ferguson by the great man himself.But just a few months
straight to your inbox every day for freeThe clank of the studs could be heard trudging up the sloped Stretford End tunnel towards the modest home dressing room. Manchester United were 4-1 down at the interval to Tottenham and, in the away dressing room, Jose Mourinho was preparing his players to inflict a joint-record defeat on United.
Manchester Evening News heard from the remarkable men and women who not only escaped the Holocaust with their lives, but survived the coronavirus pandemic to carry on making their voices heard. Werner and Ruth Lachs feel 'lucky' to be here.
direct to your inboxA man who fathered his sister's child has been jailed.The man was sentenced to 32 months after admitting committing 'repeated' acts of incest against his sibling.His sister gave birth to his child.Manchester Crown Court was told the defendant was himself 'severely damaged' after suffering sexual, physical and emotional abuse.The Manchester Evening News is not naming him, to protect the identity of the victim, who has a legal right to lifelong anonymity.
Radcliffe on Christmas Eve, 2019. Gwen's loved ones have shared their memories of her with the inquest set to continue.
direct to your inboxThe road where a sinkhole opened up - swallowing much of two houses and a car - was in 'a good state of repair', the council believes.An investigation into what caused the shocking scenes on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey - led by Manchester council and water company United Utilities - is ongoing.Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt in the disaster last Thursday morning (January 21).Seventeen properties have now been evacuated.Residents don't know if they will ever be able to
direct to your inboxFirefighters in Greater Manchester were delayed by three months in helping with the Test and Trace system because of a row over health and safety, a report states.Crews were tasked with knocking on the doors of people who the Test and Trace programme was struggling to contact in Manchester.But they were delayed by a health and safety agreement - designed to enable unions to determine extra jobs firefighters would carry out during the pandemic - a Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of
direct to your inboxShe became an adopted Mancunian after moving to Manchester from her native Turkey 15 years ago.After learning English and following her dream of launching her own fashion label Zeynep Kartal has gone on to dress some of the world's biggest stars from her showroom in King Street.
direct to your inboxA young mum has described the horrific moment the house she had been given as a lifeline against homelessness started to collapse - in front of her terrified children One of the houses that collapsed into a sinkhole in Abbey Hey in Manchester was being used as temporary accommodation for homeless families - and had started to feel like home to the single mum and her four young children.
straight to your inbox every day for freeLuke Shaw arrived at Carrington late and Jose Mourinho demanded an explanation. Shaw explained his mother had overslept and had forgotten to wake him up.Mourinho was dumbstruck.
direct to your inboxPolice have urged motorists to abide by road closures after a vehicle appeared to drive around cones only to be become stranded in floodwater.Greater Manchester Police posted a picture of what appeared to be a vehicle stranded in floodwater on the B5158 'Mile Road' between Carrington and Flixton on Thursday morning.The image showed what appeared to be two figures who emerged from the vehicle wading through the water.The road was closed because of floodwater overtopping the
direct to your inbox"There were four of us at the start of 2020, now there's two."These are the desperately sad words of Suzanne Selby from Heywood after Covid-19 tore through her family. She spoke to the Manchester Evening News to pay tribute to her brother Alan and dad Karl, and to plead with the public to take the threat of the virus seriously.