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1. 1. First class education

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 December 2003 SCHOOLKIDS will feel they're going up in the world when they use a jet as a classroom at Manchester Airport. Monarch Airlines donated a 23-year-old DC10 airliner to airport bosses, who removed the wings and chopped it in half.

2. 2. Parents of truants shopped

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 04 December 2003 POLICE caught 83 schoolchildren playing truant in one day at the Trafford Centre - and most of them were Christmas shopping with their parents. One 12-year-old was taken into care while another had to be restrained by police after she became violent.

3. 3. Pupils injured in air rifle attack

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 December 2003 THREE pupils were hurt when a teenager opened fire with an air rifle at a school in Warrington. A girl of 15 and a 16-year-old boy went to hospital and another boy was treated at the scene following the incident at Birchwood High school.

4. 4. Up to speed and breaking barriers

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 December 2003 THE arrival of Concorde symbolised the supersonic ambitions of Manchester Airport.&  The airport's performance, although it improved latterly, had been distinctly subsonic thanks to the continued effects of September 11, the general downturn in the aviation industry, the war in Iraq and the killer Sars bug.

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