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1. 1. Police: Four sex attacks in Northern Quarter now thought to be linked

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 12 January 2012 Detectives say there is a ‘clear pattern’ in four sex attacks committed in Manchester's Northern Quarter over the last five months and patrols have been increased in the area.

2. 2. Police chief Peter Fahy defends plans to close 35 front desks

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 June 2011 Chief Constable Peter Fahy says the public will have better access to police officers despite plans to close 35 front desks.

3. 3. Oldham widow, 79, fights for life after muggers snatch handbag containing her husband's ashes

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 November 2011 A pensioner who was left fighting for her life after her handbag was snatched may have been trying in vain to prevent thieves from taking her late husband's ashes. The 79-year-old widow kept her husband's ashes in her handbag for comfort since he died 17 years ago.

4. 4. Police station front desks face the axe to save GMP £1m a year

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 27 June 2011 Around 20 public service counters – or front desks – could close, with callers to the station having to use phones mounted on the outside walls which will have a direct line to a police control room elsewhere.

5. 5. Despair for pensioner after thieves take precious heirlooms

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 February 2011 The 79-year-old victim had no idea the thieves were rifling through a chest of drawers in an upstairs bedroom of his home in Kenyon Street in Leigh as he watched television in the downstairs living room.

6. 6. Wythenshawe shooting murder victim ‘was known to police’

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 21 September 2010 A man who was gunned down outside a petrol station was known to police. The M.E.N. understands Kevin Bond, who was shot dead in broad daylight, had spent time in prison.

7. 7. Robbery terror of girl, 16, as hammer gang raid house in Bowdon

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 27 March 2011 A terrified girl of 16 was dragged around a house by masked robbers armed with hammers. Five men, two of them armed with hammers, burst into the home where the girl and her younger sister were at home alone.

8. 8. Appeal over club shooting

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 11 August 2008 DETECTIVES want to speak to Manchester revellers who may have witnessed a fatal shooting in a nightclub. Damian Gordon, 30, was gunned down at Icon on Westgate, Bradford city centre, at around 3am on Sunday, August 3.

9. 9. Police car shot at in chase

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 26 September 2008 POLICE were shot at as they chased a gang of suspected car thieves along a busy city street.

10. 10. Two men hunted after sex attacks

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 12 August 2008 DETECTIVES were today hunting two men after separate sex attacks on women in Greater Manchester.

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