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1. 1. Why won't Manchester get behind X Factor hopeful Misha B?

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 November 2011 While Misha Bryan sings her heart out for her city in X Factor, some cynical Mancunians are making great play of not supporting the local girl. Does it tell us something about the city’s culture and character? Paul Taylor reports ...

2. 2. Teaching working mums some new tricks

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 07 November 2011 Naomi Timperley can teach us a thing or two about juggling work and family. Married to Max, aged 46, who runs an industrial cleaning business, Naomi fits running her three businesses around caring for daughters Olivia, eight, and Elizabeth, six.

3. 3. Angela Rippon: Age is no barrier to being me

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 25 October 2010 If you think of the elderly, what visions come to mind? Broadcaster Angela Rippon wants us to turn those thoughts into photographs for a competition to help change our ideas about growing old, writes Paul Taylor.

4. 4. Mental Health and Social Care Trust boss talks about working in 'challenging environments'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 16 June 2011 Last week, an inquest found that the death of a mental health patient, slumped  in a hospital corridor, was “wholly preventable”. Jackie Daniel, boss of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, talks to Paul Taylor about a terrible mistake, and about the challenges facing an organisation with a turbulent past.

5. 5. Hood Rat: Author Gavin Knight talks about his experiences of meeting gang members for his new book

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 28 July 2011 Journalist Gavin Knight’s extensive research with inner city gangsters and cops has spawned a book, Hood Rat, and a film to come. Could Moss Side’s woes be dramatised in the same way as the Baltimore of The Wire? Paul Taylor reports.

6. 6. Why Cheryl Cole was lost in translation on US X Factor

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 27 May 2011 Cheryl Cole has been dropped from US X Factor amid alleged concerns that Americans would not understand her accent. Is her appeal  so foreign to the Yanks?

7. 7. A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe (Virgin)

   CityLife, Friday 05 November 2004 DECIDING to release a set of songs about "war, peace, love and greed" to coincide with the US presidential election is a commendably high-minded concept.

8. 8. A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe (Virgin)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 November 2004 DECIDING to release a set of songs about "war, peace, love and greed" to coincide with the US presidential election is a commendably high-minded concept.

9. 9. Why more of us choose the caravan

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 18 January 2012 It's doom and gloom all the way for the economy in 2012. And yet one leisure sector is booming...caravanning. The Caravan and Motorhome Show opens tomorrow, with a bumper year in prospect. Paul Taylor finds out more.

10. 10. Geri - the girl power writer

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 09 May 2008 THESE Spice Girls know how to flatter us Mancunians. Just a few weeks ago, we had Victoria Beckham gushing about her fond memories of Manchester. Now here we have Geri Halliwell giving her own plaudits for the city.

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