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1. 1. Spotlight on Sandbach

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 August 2004 MOST people probably associate Sandbach with the dreary motorway service station - recently voted the UK's worst - not the historic market town. But if you come off the M6 for your coffee instead you will find a town of half-timbered buildings, lovely traditional high street and, if you visit on a Thursday, a market that dates back to Elizabethan times.

2. 2. Spotlight on Bolton

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 06 October 2004 GOOD sized town with its own identity, Bolton was one of the first to realise that good town centre shopping can bring people in and revamped its Victorian market and added a modern shopping centre.

3. 3. Spotlight on Chester

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 25 August 2004 With medieval half-timbered buildings, quaint shopping rows, Roman ruins, and riverside walks, Chester is a chocolate box picture of English living.

4. 4. Spotlight on Clitheroe

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 September 2004 FAVOURITE place for affluent commuters to Preston, Blackburn and Manchester because of the grammar school catchment and property prices have always been high here. A local authority ban on any more new building has further fuelled the market although some new apartments are being developed close to the town centre.

5. 5. Spotlight on Warrington

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 06 July 2004 WARRINGTON'S selling point has always been its location and communications links. Mid-way between Manchester and Liverpool it has managed to survive competition from the big two.

6. 6. Spotlight on Leigh

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 05 February 2003 LEIGH is a town built on coal mining, it suffered cruelly when the industry went into decline and all the pits closed until the big builders realised the potential of these brownfield sites and moved in.

7. 7. Spotlight on Haslingden

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 February 2004

   Haslingden is& the mill town that moved out of the dark ages. The mills the cottages served are now largely gone but their sites are valuable.

8. 8. Spotlight on Preston

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 25 February 2004 FINALLY accorded city status last year Preston has always been ambitious with its own fast growing university, revitalised docklands area, busy town centre, museum and theatre. And there is more to come. .

9. 9. Spotlight on Stockport

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 05 March 2003 STOCKPORT lies seven miles south-east of Manchester beside the countryside of the Derbyshire Peaks and Cheshire Plains.

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