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1. 1. Brown tries to be a good sport

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 March 2006 PRIME Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown yesterday presented a Budget helping schoolchildren, businesses and sport - but punishing smokers and the owners of gas-guzzling cars.

2. 2. I messed up, admits Darren

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 March 2006 DARREN Campbell took an unexpected phone call after his Commonwealth Games 200m nightmare in Melbourne yesterday. "It was mum to say 'well done,' the Sale Harriers Manchester sprinter revealed to MEN Sport.

3. 3. Budget 2006: Blow-by-blow

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 March 2006 THE Budget 2006 saw a rise in cigarette prices, and new funds found for community bobbies and children's sport. Here are the Chancellor's changes in full.

4. 4. RL final set for Twickers switch

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 March 2006 RUGBY League's showpiece Challenge Cup final in August will almost certainly be switched from Wembley to Twickenham. M.E.N. Sport can reveal the RFL have drawn up the emergency plan should the jinxed é757m Wembley still not be finished.

5. 5. TV show is ice work for Sophie

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 March 2006 ICE dancer Sophie Wright is the star of a new BBC 2 comedy show about her cut-throat sport. The Altrincham teenager was recommended for the part by her coach Karen Barber, a judge on the hit ITV contest Dancing On Ice.

6. 6. Queen gets Games underway

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 March 2006 THE Queen has opened the 18th Commonwealth Games in a blaze of fireworks amid an outpouring of enthusiasm which when it comes to sport is quintessentially Australian.

7. 7. Hince: Melbourne won't match Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 March 2006 YOU may think I'm being blinded by bias, but I'm willing to bet that the organisers of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games have been silently cursing Manchester as they've laboured to stitch together one of world sport's finest spectacles over the past couple of years.

8. 8. Speedy skier goes right downhill

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 09 March 2006 BRAVE Marc Poncin is a bit of a whiz when it comes to skiing - for the downhill ace from Denton is one of the fastest people ever to take to the piste, clocking up speeds of around 150mph.

9. 9. A Lexy little mover

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 31 March 2006 IT'S a lovely car," volunteers the attractive young woman standing in line at the local filling station, unprompted.

10. 10. Spotland pair’s pitch proposal

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 March 2006 SPOTLAND chiefs must raise '50,000 to bring the much-maligned playing surface up to scratch.

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