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Joy for Friends at play park upgrade
A children's play area will receive a 162,000 refurbishment thanks to a grant. Community group Friends of Snig Hole Park have secured funds to pay for new play equipment and improvements to access and drainage at the Snig Hole play area in Helmshore Memorial Park. They received 132,000 as part of planning agreements by developers of two nearby housing projects and a further 30,000 was ...
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Performing From Space Chris Hadfield Is Canada’s Low-Orbit Star
Chris Hadfield upon returning to Earth on Monday. Before that, his five months on the International Space Station included musical performances, many Twitter postings and an appearance on a mock TV news ...
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Metrolink expansion delays ongoing
Expansion plans for Manchester’s Metrolink seem shrouded in continual controversy or bureaucracy, from spending cuts and revisions, environmental concerns and claims that not enough is being done to ensure that the local workforce is employed in expanding the tram system. It seems that just as the benefits to be reaped from the tram line expansion are significant, so too are the problems associated with seeing it through.
It was way back in the 1980s that Manchester news media first reported that local government were considering expanding the tram system, but it wasn’t until 2001 that concrete action was taken in the form of half a billion pounds being set aside by the national government to expand the tram lines from Manchester’s city centre out into the Greater Manchester region. Read more
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