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Bitter-suite drama for Margaret

Bitter-suite drama for Margaret

A WOMAN had an amazing escape when a car ploughed into her front room - sending the sofa she was sitting on flying across the room.

Margaret Cichecka, 55, was sitting on a sofa watching TV when the Honda Civic hit the front of the mid-terraced property on Curzon Road, Ashton, after hitting three cars outside.


 

Grieving mum turned killer

Grieving mum turned killer

A YOUNG mum was turned into a drunken killer when her life was wrecked by the catastrophic cot death of her four-month-old son.

Young dad-to-be dies after roof fall

A YOUNG dad-to-be plunged 50ft to his death as he fitted a TV aerial, just days before his first wedding anniversary.


 

On your bike to wheely good event

A COMMUNITY cycle ride is taking place this Sunday to encourage more people to get on their bikes.

Free at last from jail hell

Free at last from jail hell

KYLE Dillon told how he ‘kissed the ground’ outside prison in delight after five months of jail hell came to an end.


 

 

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