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1. 1. Comment: Example of true community spirit

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 November 2010 The Blitz spirit which kept Britain indomitable throughout the dark days of the Second World War was revived to the immense credit of people in Salford yesterday.

2. 2. Comment: Beautiful result for the Big Society

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 June 2011 We report today on a classic example of the Big Society in action. The residents of Cranswick Square in Moss Side were sick of the sight of the derelict piece of land behind their homes so they got together and transformed it into a community garden.

3. 3. M.E.N. Comment: Questions that need to be asked over riots

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 August 2011 In times of crisis, we expect our politicians to sum up the feelings of the community. Coun Pat Karney – a man with more claim than most to the title of Mr Manchester – has served us handsomely in this regard.

4. 4. Comment: A city we can all be so proud of

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 June 2011 It takes adversity to test the mettle of a community. And Manchester has, in living memory, survived, and thrived, after two attempts to destroy it.

5. 5. Paul Taylor: Pay-per-chuck rubbish strategy will turn us into grot Britain

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 06 April 2011 It is making my blood boil that some of Somerset’s community recycling centres (local tips, in old money) are now charging members of the public up to £2 per visit.

6. 6. Comment: Needless death of ‘a good man’

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 26 January 2011 PC Mike Silcock was a decent, caring, compassionate man. He was, his family says, "a good man with a sense of duty to others and the wider community". His colleagues say he was "an extremely popular and dedicated officer".

7. 7. Team ‘turned my life around’

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 November 2008 I am writing to you in praise of TCAT, Trafford Community Alcohol Team.

8. 8. Comment: Now is not the time to lend or be saddled with a big debt

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 January 2012 One can understand a certain anger in Moston at the discovery that Manchester council has made provision to lend £500,000 towards the building of FC United’s new stadium.

9. 9. Paul Taylor: Fireworks usher in the year that will be all about London

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 04 January 2012 Those New Year firework displays told us a lot about the year we have in store. In Manchester, nary a sparkler sputtered into life.

10. 10. Support our PCSOs

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 January 2008 RE: ‘COWARDLY thugs must be caught’ (Metro News, January 4), I am trying to convince people of the merits of local community policing to help us build safe communities, ruled by adults who take responsibility for their children, and combating the anti-social behaviour that ruins lives.

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