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1. 1. Welfare benefits revolution

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 December 2007 ELDERLY and disabled people in Oldham have been given cash to buy their own care packages as part of a radical change to the welfare system, which is to be spread nationwide.

2. 2. Doc urges heroin on prescription

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 10 November 2007 A SENIOR doctor is calling for heroin to be handed out on prescription to slash crime linked to its illegal trade.

3. 3. 'Sixth sense' saves daughter

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 29 October 2007 A DAD'S  'sixth sense' saved his daughter's life after she was struck down with an extremely rare strain of meningitis.

4. 4. 'Pie eaters' urged to get fit

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 September 2007 A TOWN famous for its love of pies has launched a £350,000 fitness drive. Pies go down so well in Wigan that the World Pie Eating Championships are held in the town every year.

5. 5. Coroner's plea on hospital

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 30 July 2007 A CORONER is to write to hospital bosses after hearing of the `despicable and appalling' care given to a dying cancer patient.

6. 6. Cancer centres give hope

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 09 July 2007 THE heavens opened - but it didn't matter one bit to the people marking the opening of Europe's first breast cancer prevention centre.

7. 7. Lighting up? Scrum off it

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 30 June 2007 ANYONE thinking of flaunting the smoking ban in Oldham should beware - rugby player Geno Costin is part of an enforcement team poised to pounce on rogue smokers.

8. 8. Men die younger in Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 June 2007 MANCHESTER'S men are dying younger than anywhere else in England - and women in the city have the country's second shortest female life expectancy.

9. 9. Nursing family values

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 May 2007 THERE may be a national shortage of nurses, but one family is doing more than its fair share to solve the problem.

10. 10. Cancer linked to lack of screening

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 12 April 2007 A LACK of regular smear tests is the most common contributing factor to why women develop cervical cancer, experts said. Half of women with cervical cancer in a study group had not had a smear in the three years before diagnosis.

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