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Pit bull turns on owner in horror attack

A PIT bull terrier had to be restrained by police, and was later put down, after it turned on its owner in a terrifying street attack.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: School Network Manager Colin Devereux tries out the new thumbprint technology.

It’s thumbs up to the future

IT’S THUMBS up for Heywood Community High as the first school in the country to use cutting-edge technology at lunchtimes.

A POSTER from the campaign aimed at women.

Have you ad cancer check?

CHRISTIE Hospital is launching a quirky advertising campaign to encourage people to check their own bodies for signs of cancer.

Superfit rugby ace found dead

A DEVASTATED family was yesterday waiting for the result of a post mortem to find out what killed a superfit rugby player.

BRAVE Lewis Mather, ten, alerted his family to a Christmas fire.

Family of five saved from blaze by lad

EXCLUSIVE

WHEN FIRE broke out at a Hurdsfield home on Christmas Eve morning brave ten-year-old Lewis Mather knew just what to do... he crawled "commando style" upstairs through dense smoke to alert his family.

Flats bid for mill site

EXCLUSIVE

MIDDLETON looks likely to enjoy a housing boom.

DISTRAUGHT: Michaela Bryce, 20, with five-month-old son Kamron.

Thieves take ashes of dead babies

EXCLUSIVE

A GRIEVING mother is devastated after thieves stole a safe from her home where she had been keeping the ashes of her two baby sons.

QUICK-thinking crime detectors: Irene and Geoffrey Smith, who stopped an asylum seeker smuggling himself into Britain.

OAPs oust stowaway asylum seeker

EXCLUSIVE

A MELLOR couple in their 70s who stopped a would-be asylum seeker smuggling himself into Britain, fear terrorists could be taking advantage of laissez-faire French immigration officials.

HONOURED: Actor Roy Barraclough received an MBE in the honours list.

Cheers to Roy and his MBE surprise

FORMER Corrie Star and Ashton man Roy Barraclough has been made an MBE for his work in drama and for charities around Manchester.

£3m plan to ease parking crisis

THE masterplan for a £3 million multi storey car park in Wilmslow has been unveiled at last – but reveals it will do little to relieve the town centre parking crisis yet cost up to £12,000 a space.