Bosses say they already pull in plenty of hen nights – and a bingo session would make an ideal ‘austerity’ wedding party.

In astonishing scenes Richard Soper, from bus company First, was told by traffic commissioner Beverley Bell that the firm is failing badly - and warned that unreliable services would be taken off the road.

Tameside council is considering the move after a complaint from Ashton Sixth Form College.

Her proud grandad, Ian Jones, sponsored her £5 a length and was left speechless when she broke into double figures – then kept going for an amazing 80 lengths.

He suffered a stab wound to his lower body and was taken to hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

Ron was tending the grave of his grandparents Francis George and Martha Whaley and of their daughter and grandchildren in Hyde Cemetery when he spotted the final resting place a short distance away.

Now the 30-year-old is to hold a day of taster sessions at Tameside hospital’s maternity unit, free of charge in return for a donation to the hospital’s Bright Start appeal.

The £15m link will run between Turner Lane and Crickets Lane North, alongside the railway line, and will remove all traffic – except for buses and cyclists – from Wellington Road and Penny Meadow. There will still be access to car parks and shops.

A stretch of asphalt had to be relaid on Monday after it was ruled substandard by council inspectors.

Now bosses have admitted paying a management consultant more than £1,000-a-day, based on a nine-month contract where the consultant was working about 12 days a month.

Six-year-old Lola Etchells was asked to shave her mum Sara’s head after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Lola’s dad Craig, a former sound engineer and producer, initially filmed and edited the emotive video as a keepsake but the family then decided to share it online to raise money as Sara continues her treatment.

This year saw the introduction of charges for blue badge holders using council-owned car parks.

New figures show the reasons why primary and secondary students from Tameside were excluded from schools, either just for a few days or permanently. There were 1,498 temporary exclusions of youngsters from the borough’s high schools in the academic year 2010-2011.

It has now emerged that the firm’s licence was being revoked by a traffic commissioner following a public inquiry amid concerns about the firm’s financial standing.

Crowds gathered outside Stalybridge Civic Hall today, where a statue of Jack Judge now stands, for a special performance by Stalybridge Old Band and children from nearby St Peter's primary school.

NHS bosses hope it will ‘significantly’ reduce the £3.5m a year that missed appointments cost Tameside.

Pc Philip Sutcliffe, 34, ran into the home in Droylsden to find the oven door open, all the gas appliances switched on and piping behind the cooker ripped from the wall. He could hear loud hissing as the property filled with gas.

Ethan’s big day at the Britain’s Got Talent auditions was organised by children’s charity When You Wish Upon a Star, for which Cowell is an ambassador.

The charity is a first for the North West and has been set up by Paul ‘Red’ Redfern, president of the Rising Moon Motorcycle Club in Hyde.

She and her boyfriend had been inside the park and were attempting to climb over a gate near Old Road when they both fell. She became impaled in her upper thigh and her boyfriend suffered a head injury during the incident.

Tim Craig arrived at his Ashton business on a council-owned trading estate early on Friday morning to find it had been broken into.

He was also a compere and singer at clubs in the area, counting comedian Bernard Manning among his friends, and described himself as ‘Roy Enstein, the man with a million songs.’

Alan Jones 29, who had recently moved into the home on Parvett Avenue with his girlfriend and their two children, had turned on gas appliances in the house, and there had been an ‘overwhelming’ smell when the officer rushed in during the early hours of Saturday October 15.

Under the guidance of archaeologists from Salford University, the forum wants to get the whole community involved in a dig aimed at revealing the lost history of the building.

And soon made-to-measure supersize wetsuits designed and made in Stalybridge will feature on ITV’s The Biggest Loser as obese contestants – some weighing more than 30st – attempt a water-based challenge as they try to lose pounds at boot camp.

The money was spent on everything from major building works to a fruit press for a community allotment.

The bypass was left off the list of road schemes given the go-ahead by the government last year. Chancellor George Osborne committed £5bn to similar schemes in the next spending review, but that won't be until 2015/16.

Hyde-based Speedwell ran 10 bus routes in Hyde, Glossop, Oldham and Ashton-under- Lyne before it suddenly pulled its vehicles from the road.

Afterwards, prosecutors said they initially asked for the case to be presented as a disability hate crime. But they say the prosecuting barrister failed to ask the judge to impose harsher sentences under Section 146 of the Criminal Justice Act.

A van and a car were involved in a minor bump on a slip road which onto the M56 near Cheadle. One driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries following the incident just after 7am.

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Pedestrians using a zebra crossing at Hyde Bus Station were reminded to ‘Look Left’ but with an arrow pointing to the right.

An investigation by the Insolvency Service found that Karl Dennis Zanft, the director of Fineform Racing Limited, failed to manage his accounts properly.

Sean Ruddeforth was subjected to a horrific four-hour ordeal in which he was tied to a lamppost and humiliated. The 31-year-old was covered with food, nail varnish and paint. His attackers escaped jail after a court heard two of them were young mums.

Christopher Shipman, the son of serial killer GP Harold Shipman, gets substantial undisclosed damages.

Manchester Crown Court heard good-natured taunts between the two sets of fans turned into violence after the FA Cup clash between the two teams on January 9 last year.

Instead the cash will be ‘topsliced’ from the borough’s education budget – meaning all schools will be forced to contribute, even if they don’t have a crossing patrol.

Son Jason, who came up with the idea, drove his dad to Dukinfield Crematorium and said it was a fitting way for him to make his ‘final journey’.

Officers targeted 25 addresses to lock up those suspected of committing assaults over Christmas and new year. Suspects wanted on warrant were dragged from their beds after police broke down their doors.

Businesses had complained that the work, due to start on Monday, would put off customers and cripple their trade – and had asked for the first hour’s car parking to be free.

Friends Becky and Olivia spotted him at the back of the bus and raced to his aid.

Lee Turvey, 23, of Fitzgerald Court, Denton, had just passed his test and feared he would be forced to sit it again after he drove over the limit in his Fiesta.

When Puddles the poodle was found with a severe head injury after a car accident, there was every chance she would have to be put down.

Their victim, Sean Ruddeforth, 31, was covered with paint, food and nail varnish.

An iPhone 4 was taken in the robbery at a bus stop on Chatsworth Road, Droylsden, at about 5.30pm on Wednesday.

One of the few places to turn tp in Tameside is the food bank at St Mary’s church in Haughton Green, run by volunteers including Dave Buckley.

Louis Barratt blacked out after a diabetic hypo which triggered an epileptic seizure. The 18-year-old was on his way home from work when the drama unfolded on the 216 bus.

Now his final handwritten letters feature in a haunting new book which captures the true horror of war and offers a glimpse into the mindset of soldiers. The letters have been published with the consent of Guardsman Downes’ family.

David Reeve, 38, convinced his wife and veterans from the Royal British Legion, who invited him to sell poppies with them and march alongside them in last year’s Remembrance Sunday parade through his home town of Hyde.

One of them demanded his mobile phone but the boy refused to hand it over. He was punched in the stomach then pinned down on the floor as his pockets were searched.

They gagged him, tied his hands and forced him upstairs where they also threatened his 54-year-old wife.

They took cigarettes worth around £350 and a small amount of money before making off towards Gibraltar Lane.

Members of the Local Involvement Network inspected conditions a year ago, but during spot checks in August they found that bosses had failed to act on many of their recommendations.