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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. 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.

5. 5. 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.

6. 6. 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?”

7. 7. Strangeways: How it's changed

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 01 April 2010 Twenty years ago today, Strangeways saw the worst prison riot in history. But what is life like in HMP Manchester today?

8. 8. Should Gordon go?

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 September 2008 SCOTLAND Office minister David Cairns resigned this week saying it was time to debate the leadership of the Labour party.

9. 9. Euro elections: Parties and policies

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 June 2009 MEN writer Paul Taylor gives his guide to all the parties putting up candidates in Thursday's European Parliament elections.

10. 10. Drawing the line to Blackpool

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 10 July 2008 OLIVER East walked alongside the railway tracks and documented everything he saw - the graffiti, the mundane railway architecture, the discarded shopping trolleys, the bored kids. See a gallery of his pictures here.

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