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1. 1. Should the six-week school holiday be scrapped?

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 12 April 2012 As teachers threaten to strike if their traditional summer holiday is scrapped, Paul Taylor asks: Do children, teachers and parents really need a six-week summer break?

2. 2. Is a mobile phone the weapon to beat teen smoking?

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 March 2004 PARENTAL& disapproval, tellings-off from teachers and decades of health education messages have all failed to eradicate adolescent smoking. But a Salford academic believes he has proved how smoking among the young may be reduced... by the mobile phone.

3. 3. Champion swimmer Henry Taylor and Chadderton's Olympic history

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 October 2011 He was one of Britain's greatest ever Olympians. Yet swimmer Henry Taylor was so poor he could only afford to swim in Chadderton Baths on “dirty water day”, when the entrance fee was reduced.

4. 4. The new cafe that is just oh sew stylish

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 12 May 2011 The era of make-do-and-mend is officially upon us, as a ‘sewing café’ prepares to open in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

5. 5. Uniting on stage for night of singing and signing

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 May 2011 Music and the deaf? It seems like a contradiction, but a choir of deaf and hearing children will prove otherwise with a performance at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

6. 6. 70 years on, how wartime evacuation changed lives forever

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 24 June 2010 Caught in the throes of landmark historic events, many of the children remember one mundane detail: it was the first time they had seen a black and white cow.

7. 7. Learning lessons of the 7/7 attacks

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 07 July 2010 Five years ago today, the events of 7/7 introduced Britain to the suicide bomber.

8. 8. Today, it’s cool to be nasty

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 July 2010 The bad guys have always had their “fans”. The brutal exploits of highwayman Dick Turpin in the early 18th century were romanticised after his execution.

9. 9. Horror of life in America’s toughest jail

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 03 August 2010 Asked for the lowest point of his hellish sojourn in Arizona’s penal system, Shaun Attwood answers without hesitation. "When I was moved to maximum security," he says.

10. 10. Should we care about cuts to Greater Manchester's art scene?

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 27 October 2010 The story goes that when Winston Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts during the Second World War, he responded: “Then what are we fighting for?”

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