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• Woman jailed for life after murdering husband at Prestwich home

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• Bev Craig pledges Bee Network expansion and fare freeze in Greater Manchester mayoral campaign

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• Famous Toad Lane Pioneers Museum at risk of closure without urgent funding

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• A fourteen-year-old horserider beat all the adults to secure a place in the prestigious Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham in October.

  Whitworth Community High School Year 9 student Abby Parnell was competing in only her second ever Horse of the Year Show, HOYS, qualifying heat on Sunday June 28 in Formby.

• Daughter of Bernadette Mcneilly sets up petition to protect children from abusive parents and trauma

  The daughter of one of the killers of Suzanne Capper, Kelly Higgins, has started a petition to 'Automatically remove parental responsibility for parents convicted of abuse'

• Rochdale MP urges Ministers to do 'everything possible' to deport grooming gang criminals

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