Locked up

A POLICE operation that has lasted for two years has successfully caught 27 drug dealers who have been dealing heroin and crack cocaine in north Manchester and will spend in total more than 90 years behind bars.

Operation Proportion was launched in 2006 to target dealers supplying the harmful and highly addictive drugs to people in the Beswick and Openshaw.


 



Could old book hold the secret to a long life?

Could old book hold the secret to a long life?

DESPITE modern medicine's best efforts, the key to boosting your life expectancy could lie in a dusty old manual from the turn of the last century.

The school where pupils look forward to turning up

The school where pupils look forward to turning up

PUPILS at one north Manchester school get so much out of learning that their enjoyment of education was given an outstanding score by Ofsted.

Dog man banned for life

Dog man banned for life

A NORTH Manchester man has been banned from keeping animals for life after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to his dog.

City play host to the world's best

SOME of the world’s best elite athletes with a disability, from swimming, track cycling, wheelchair basketball and athletics have gathered in Manchester for this week’s Paralympic World Cup.

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