The plans include building 120 residential properties, both flats and houses, on the former Bowker Bank Dye Works, along the beautiful River Irk in Crumpsall – designated as an area of biological importance.

We'll have live coverage of the meeting on this site from 2pm on Thursday.

The city's Jewish Museum, housed in an old synagogue in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, has won recognition from Prince Edward for its work educating the community.

Ashley Ponsonby, 30, from Blackley, walked out of North Manchester General Hospital at 12.30pm on March 2 and hasn't been seen since.

Chantelle Walcott, 25, pulled one of the girls up the stairs by her hair and attacked her. She also tried to punch another as she tumbled into a bath.

They seized counterfeit clothing including, fake Ugg and Timberland boots, Nike trainers and bogus items by Ed Hardy, Adidas, Stone Island and G-Star.

A number of different plans unveiled this week include a £4.4 million cash injection which should see the opening of a stunning new marina in New Islington in the autumn, 400 new homes planned for Moston and Harpurhey and 1,500 jobs to be created for long-term unemployed young people.

A formidable army of 1,800 cadets from all three forces, stood until their knees wobbled collecting money for last year’s Poppy Appeal. Their determination, and the public’s generosity, paid off after a record total of £112,505 was raised – the highest in the country.

The gorgeous Staffordshire Terrier cross puppies were rescued and taken to Manchester Dogs’ Home in Harpurhey after they were found shivering with cold at Chorlton Park in south Manchester.

Solaman Tahir, 25, of Farrer Road, Longsight and Mohammed Harun Tahir, 31, of Moss Park Road, Stretford, are charged with possession of a Class B drug with intent to supply and production of a Class B drug.

Two men went into the William Hill shop on Ashton New Road, armed with an axe and hammer at around 6.30pm on Monday, March 1.

The cutbacks, which chiefs pledge will involve no compulsory redundancies, emerged as the council approved its budget for the next year.

Pioneering textile company P Frankenstein & Sons was pivotal in development of the spacesuit that allowed Neil Armstrong to walk on the lunar surface.

The Manchester Jewish Museum, in Cheetham Hill, revealed last year that it was suffering a funding crisis.

Over 10,500 electors votes will be counted in Manchester Central constituency when the country goes to the polls in the next few months.

Mr Lloyd, who is Lloyd MP chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party said: “Michael Foot passing away signals the end of a great life and an era in politics but his memory will live on in the work of those inspired by him and in those who will read his writings.

United fan Dave Tatlock was paralysed by shrapnel embedded in his spine two years ago.

Our reporter Deborah Linton will be filing the latest news from Manchester town hall. At 9am, the council executive will consider proposals for joining forces with other Greater Manchester authorities to make decisions over policy areas such as transport.

Qassim Afzal said that minority faiths, including Muslims, Methodists, Mormons and Quakers, were banned from entering any draw and consequently would be penalised.

Newton Heath – one of three obsolete stations located along Dean Lane in Newton Heath – has been earmarked for a park-and-ride service to link to the city centre.

Giuseppe Gregory, 16, of Ardwick, was killed after shots were fired at the

car he was in outside the Robin Hood pub in Stretford,

Hiruy Zerihun, 18, of Lloyd Street South, Greenheys, and Njabulo Ndlovu, 19,

of Croydon Drive, Newton Heath, are accused of being the ‘murderous gunmen’

behind the attack in a Manchester Crown Court trial.

They had to be told that Pc Ian Terry's injuries were real and not part of his role playing a fleeing villain.

Peter Corry had an underlying condition of bronchial pneumonia which had clogged up his arteries and caused him to go into cardiac arrest, an inquest heard.

On the first occasion Catherine Arnold suffered marks to her neck which she photographed on her mobile camera phone.

Kelly Williams, 28, knifed the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after a booze binge in May last year.

The 48-year-old victim, came home to his flat at Nelson Court after a night out, in the early hours of Saturday, February 13, but he forgot to lock the door as he came back in.

Leon Hough, who was two-and-a-half times above the limit, drove in to a field and hit a railing, Manchester Magistrates’ Court was told.

Tony, 58, of Crumpsall, has 14 convictions for different crimes in the 1980s.

Rat running, pollution and noise would be the likely consequences for Blackley residents, according to the Labour Member of Parliament. in the vicinity."

Pound Choice Ltd, on Wellington Street, was fined, three months after being warned about underage sales.

Three men with covered faces ran into McDonalds, on Oldham Road, demanding cash just after 2pm on Sunday February 21.

Gladys Scriven, from Moston, died in February 2002, aged 89, after being admitted to North Manchester Hospital with a fractured hip following a fall at her care home.

Vintage transport enthusiasts have been in talks to bring four 1930s trams – including two double deckers – to Manchester.

Greater Manchester Police have named the five most wanted offenders in each of its division as part of Operation Sabre and want the help of readers to take them off the streets.

The three Gorton men, who along with a mob of 20 terrorised the Ryder Brow area, were sentenced on Monday for surrounding and threatening a PCSO telling him they were going to break his legs on July 29 2009.

William Raimondo, 24, of Buckley Road, Gorton, was sentenced, on February 22, for using the name Fabio Simoes to dishonestly obtain Job Seekers Allowance, Housing and Council Tax Benefit amounting to £17,605.23.

Pc Jason Hanvey, 37, is one of four officers and a Greater Manchester Police employee on trial accused of assaulting and threatening two teenage girls.

A financial plan drawn up by officers warns that the economic crisis will make the next three years among the most challenging the city has ever faced.

Mum-of-two Liz Shaw was horrified when she asked son Callum, 13, what he wanted to be when he was older - and he casually replied: ‘A gangster’.

But the teenager, of Longsight, was told by a judge he had ‘learned nothing’ from the tragedy as he was locked up for nine years for drugs and firearms offences committed after he was released from prison for the manslaughter of Kamilah.

Thousands of spectators are expected to line the streets of Cheetham Hill as the parade winds its way towards the Town Hall and the Irish Festival Market on Albert Square.

Corporal Mike O’Neill, from Moston, was deployed to the war zone to film Operation Panther’s Claw – the international forces’ high profile campaign to clear Taliban strongholds – last summer, ahead of the Afghan presidential elections.

The double world champion is hoping the £24m complex at Sportcity will encourage children take up the sport.

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After he was collared, Kenneth Snabities, 21, took police on a tour of the Longsight area, pointing out nine more homes he had plundered.

BAFTA-award winning journalist Lucy Meacock, the main news anchor on Granada Reports for the past 20 years, spent an afternoon teaching pupils at the Manchester Creative and Media Academy in Moston.

The Franciscan ‘Fryer’, who has become a dab hand with a spatula, dishes out breakfast at the Gorton allotment where he keeps his brood or delivers fresh eggs to shelters for the destitute.

Pc Ian Terry, 32, was fatally wounded when he was blasted with a shotgun during the exercise at a disused warehouse in Newton Heath in June 2008.

The get-tough approach will see council workers target individual schools and quiz parents as soon as their children miss a day's lessons.

Three of the thugs burst into Morrisons in Failsworth, Oldham, with a hammer, sledgehammer and a 12-inch knife as cash was being delivered.

The Blackley MP had planned to celebrate his birthday with a low-key dinner.

]]> news http://www.nemadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1192644_mp_graham_stringer_served_up_a_birthday_shock?rss=yes#comments 2010-02-15T13:03:07 http://www.nemadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1192582_fake_clothing_scam_man_escapes_jail?rss=yes A businessman has been convicted of masterminding a £350,000 fake clothing empire stretching across the north west.

Navid Salim, 41, sold counterfeit branded clothes at stores in Stockport and had a warehouse in Cheetham Hill.

Emirjan Hysaj was today beginning a life sentence for his part in the murder of Sikh shopkeeper Kalvinder ‘Bob’ Singh in 2004.

Hundreds of people had formally objected to the plans and 6,400 have joined a 'Save Heaton Park' group on Facebook, and objectors voiced their anger at when planning committee members gave the plans the go-ahead.

Overall crime fell 14 per cent – with 5,458 fewer victims – during Chief Supt Gerry Donnellan three years in charge.

It’s just one of many songs inspired by north and east Manchester’s varied neighbourhoods, but surely one of the funniest.

Councillor Alison Firth, the Lord Mayor of Manchester visited an Eco House which shows how we can all be more energy efficiently and reduce our fuel bills.

Mother-of-one Zoe Evans, 28, was found hanged at her flat on Walsh Avenue, Blackley, after her mum frantically called a mental health team when she couldn’t get hold of her daughter.

Family and friends gathered to mark their 70th wedding anniversary and Amy's 90th birthday.

For more than four years residents have been fighting to get the 142-year-old Abbey Hey Hotel, on Green Fold, demolished after it fell into disrepair and started to attract rats and rubbish.

The Manchester Central MP, and lifelong Reds fan, said a lack of regulation was damaging football just as it had damaged the banks.

Manchester Safeguarding Children’s Board, which works with councils and schools on child safety, has launched the online guide to stop youngsters inadvertently putting themselves in danger.

A 27-year-old woman was repeatedly stamped on during an assault at a house on Ashdown Grove, Blackley, in May 2009.

Crossley Works in east Manchester, home to Rolls Royce production until last year, will be the site of 85-place Bridge College run by The Together Trust.

A businessman cleared of two gangland murders was arrested in hospital today after a Cheetham Hill man was found stabbed to death.

It is understood the dead man is Stephen ‘Aki’ Akinyemi, from Cheetham Hill. He was known to police and had been wearing a stab vest.

Ten fire fighters from Gorton fire station were called to Ashton Canal near Sportcity in Beswick at around 2.30am on Sunday morning after a passer-by reported a male was in the water.

Cambrian Street was still closed this morning as fire crews were dampening down the building.

He was confronted by up to 10 furious onlookers as neighbours fought to save three-year-old Harley Huetson on Hackle Street, Clayton.