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Crime reporter at the Manchester Evening News and author of Lured to Their Deaths. Socially distant

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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: the defendant faces six charges. He is charged with three counts of rape on a date in October 2020; he is charged with a sexual assault on a female in January of this year; he is also charged with raping a woman on a date this week
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John Scheerhout
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Deansgate, central Manchester, at 9am on November 5, 2020
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: the district judge denies bail and the case is adjourned until September 10 when he will appear at Chester Crown Court. No pleas have been entered
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: he is also charged with breaching bail conditions
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John Scheerhout
4 years
If you haven’t got a goat correspondent like we do then you can just piss off
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Andrew Stuart
4 years
I think I just got a group of goats in Llandudno arrested. Let me explain... first, I saw this from inside a dark pub (the one I live in currently). I thought I was seeing things. So I took some video:
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4 years
Hats off to everyone who made this happen... A huge new hospital in Manchester city centre is ready to take its first patients - and all this took just two weeks
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John Scheerhout
5 years
This is Roger the hamster who has just been rescued from a first floor flat in The Cube. He is one of a few pets students kept there even though pets aren’t allowed! Big picture though, Roger is safe and well
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2 months
Nobody seems to want to call it here at the Rochdale count.
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John Scheerhout
3 years
I’m in court 1 here at Chester Magistrates’ Court where Benjamin Mendy is due to appear shortly charged with rape and sexual assault. The district judge dealing with the case is Jack McGarva and the prosecutor is Debbie Byrne. The case is due to be called on shortly
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John Scheerhout
8 years
Old Trafford evacuation: a police source has just confirmed that a phone has been found attached to a pipe.
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John Scheerhout
2 years
Police have treated 'discoveries' like this with a dollop of cynicism for years - I know they are treating this one seriously
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John Scheerhout
2 years
I’m sure the drink/drug addled minds of the vandals who routinely attack the Polish war graves in Moston can’t possibly understand the stories of bravery, loss and sacrifice behind each one. Hope I’ve done those buried there a bit of justice
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2 years
Chuffed for the Makki family @justice4Yousef who have won a fresh inquest into his fatal 2019 stabbing. High Court judges have overturned the original conclusion, which I must admit me utterly baffled me at the time
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John Scheerhout
4 years
This is awful. Mother of teenager Yousef Makki, stabbed to death in Hale Barns, dies 'with a broken heart'
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Must say I was very impressed with the dignity and restraint shown by Yousef Makki’s sister Jade yesterday on a day her family was dreading. ‘We will fight'... what Yousef Makki's family say about the sentences
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John Scheerhout
7 years
Today's front page, which I know is appreciated @gmpolice HQ where it has been put up on the walls as a poster.
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John Scheerhout
2 years
Bus fire in Hale: I’m told everyone got off before the fire took hold. One shop worker has said they heard a bang and felt the building shudder
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John Scheerhout
7 years
People waiting at A&E at Wythenshawe Hospital have been asked to leave if they're not serious as staff expect 'mass casualties'
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: his lawyer Christopher Stables applies for bail. The prosecutor opposes the application. The defendant, now seated, puts his hands in his jumper pockets as the hearing continues
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John Scheerhout
2 years
This is remarkable achievement by the family of Yousef Makki, who today have been granted a full judicial review into a coroner's inconclusive finding at his inquest
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Absolutely shocking this. Before anyone knew about Rochdale, a south Manchester grooming gang was left to roam the streets and abuse young girls. Police knew about it. The council knew about it. My colleague @JenWilliamsMEN has written this...
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John Scheerhout
4 years
Wrote this partly to show people I don’t just write about shitty people doing shitty things. Cheers ⁦⁦ @DidsburyGin ⁩ which has dropped everything to make hand-sanitiser for GMP and the NHS.
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John Scheerhout
4 years
This is great news for the Makki family. A full inquest into the death of Yousef Makki will be held next year
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Crikey, just realised I'm into my 25th year at @MENnewsdesk - I reckon some of the murderers I've seen sentenced haven't got that much 🤣 I still need to do a lot more to catch up with @NealkeelingMEN who I think started as our Boer War correspondent aged 50. True story!
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Must admit that when I got up this morning I had no idea I’d end up in Edwina Currie’s kitchen. I can reveal it’s v nice and she was a perfect host. #whaleybridge
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John Scheerhout
1 year
I was dispatched to Manchester Airport today to cover the nationwide hunt for an escaped terror suspect. Got the shock of my life when I had stump up £20 for an escape of my own, from the short stay car park at T1. I was only there an hour. Twenty flaming pounds!
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John Scheerhout
5 years
City centre stabbing: I’ve just seen paramedics wheel a stretcher into The Arndale. I’m told that two people were ‘randomly stabbing people’ in the shopping complex. One suspect was arrested close to where I’m standing, I’m told
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John Scheerhout
5 years
This is a dramatic video of the dam taken by resident Rosemary Webster on Wednesday night. She had no idea she was stood virtually on top of the wall that is - and probably was then - so badly damaged
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John Scheerhout
2 years
Anyone with the slightest interest in the criminal justice system would do well to read The Boy With A Pound In His Pocket by Jade Akoum, the rather wonderful sister of Yousef Makki who manages to be a powerful, campaigning voice on knife crime as well as a mother-of-four
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John Scheerhout
3 years
It took a bit of legal argy bargy to get this but it was worth the effort- CCTV captures Yousef Makki's final moments before he's stabbed to death
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John Scheerhout
5 years
RIP Alan Greene, cop, husband, father, author, singer, golfer and all round good guy. I loved when he called me Shady and once joked if I ever had to write his obit I would call him ‘disappointingly discreet’. Can’t believe I’m writing these words Big Al. I’ll miss you
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Crikey, this really is blast from the past. Any other old fogies out there remember Shambles Square?... Ugly, grey, but very much Manchester: Shambles Square before the IRA bomb
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: the defendant appears in the dock dressed in black jogging bottoms and a red hoodie. He stands as the charges are read out. An interpreter relays those charges to the defendant as they are read out by the prosecutor
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: the hearing lasted just under an hour. Although no pleas were entered at this stage Mr Mendy strenuously denies the charges. The particulars of the charges state the three alleged rapes happened at his home
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John Scheerhout
4 years
We’ve dished out plenty of stick to the police for good reason recently but credit where it’s due, the detective work that brought Hashem Abedi to justice was astonishing
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy in court: the defendant is in police custody and it’s thought he is in the building having arrived in a van
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John Scheerhout
5 years
This is the scene on Corporation Street following a multiple stabbing earlier
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John Scheerhout
8 months
I’m at the Chestergate Tavern in Stockport with the one and only Molly Webb, the pub’s most famous regular. As always she’s brought her beloved late husband Brian with her. Molly, 85, has promised me she’ll be doing some karaoke v soon. Should be fun
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: the court hears the case will be sent to the crown court in due course. The application for bail continues
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John Scheerhout
3 years
This is as close to a sober look at the Press Club I've ever had. My hazy recollection is a less than heady mix of sticky booze-soaked carpet and C-listers on a bender, with the occasional actual journalist. Thanks for the memories @diannebourne
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John Scheerhout
4 years
Thank you to the courts for facilitating remote access to cases so I can expose vile sexual deviants like John Ward, who raped a mum in front of her children after forcing his way into her home. He committed truly sickening crimes on a total stranger
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Bolton fire latest: firefighters have confirmed everyone who was resident at The Cube has now been accounted for
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John Scheerhout
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Old Trafford evacuation: I'm told army bomb disposal squad has been scrambled
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John Scheerhout
4 years
Anyone know where @AndyBurnhamGM was last night?
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Andrew Bardsley
4 years
Piccadilly Gardens this morning @MENnewsdesk
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John Scheerhout
5 years
This is Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Swan, who concerned that a small band of people are refusing to leave the danger zone in Whaley Bridge
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: the case hasn’t been brought on yet looks like it may be later this morning when it is brought on
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John Scheerhout
4 years
Love this quote from our archives from the late, great Harold Evans: "Nothing before, and nothing I have experienced since, working for newspapers, radio, television and websites in London and New York and Washington, matches the speed demanded of everyone on the Evening News."
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John Scheerhout
6 years
EDL protest: the shouting match continues inside Piccadilly Station
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John Scheerhout
6 years
@simonbinns As opposed to pretentious real-ale drinking beardies with ill-fitting trousers?!
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John Scheerhout
4 years
The things I'll do for a story
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Reviews launched into 'failures' in Yousef Makki investigation
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John Scheerhout
2 years
Hale bus fire: another eye witness has given me this video. It looks the passengers had a lucky escape
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John Scheerhout
4 years
Been living this one for two months, partly fuelled by guilt of missing the aftermath of the explosion with a snapped achilles while my @MENnewsdesk colleagues were running themselves into the ground
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Manchester News MEN
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SPECIAL REPORT via @johnscheerhout - Brothers in evil: How Hashem Abedi helped his suicide bomber sibling commit Manchester’s worst-ever terror attack - and could have struck again
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Just putting my Salt Bae expenses claim in now - can't see it being a problem
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John Scheerhout
2 years
High Court judges have ordered a fresh inquest into the death of Yousef Makki, the family's lawyers have confirmed
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Ex Utd player Ronnie Wallwork has been given a suspended prison sentence for battering a man in a bar in a row about his trainers. More on this soon.
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Just seen a judge rendered (almost) speechless on learning that a trial he was setting cannot be accommodated until June next year at Manchester Crown Court, where the wheels of justice seem to be turning very slowly
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John Scheerhout
4 years
No sentence was ever going to repair the lives Hashem Abedi and his brother shattered but, short of a whole life tariff which could not apply because of his age at the time, this was proper justice.
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John Scheerhout
3 years
I couldn’t bring myself to watch it last night but there was absolutely no class what-so-ever in the petulant removal of medals the moment they were placed around the necks of United players. That is all.
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John Scheerhout
5 years
The father of Yousef Makki shouts 'there's no justice for my son' as the boy accused of murdering his son is found NOT GUILTY of murder and NOT GUILTY of manslaughter. The accused is hugged by his tearful mother as he leaves the dock.
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John Scheerhout
4 years
I don't tend to follow footballers but I'm making an exception for @MarcusRashford who is a credit to his family and to our city whether you're blue or red. Keep up the good work!
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John Scheerhout
5 years
City centre incident: this is the fourth ambulance I’ve seen leave the scene. It’s been confirmed counter terror police are investigating this now
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John Scheerhout
3 years
These lads would shift 16 tonnes of coal each day. Great piece from @chrisslaterMEN of (almost) forgotten history about what it was like to work down Bradford Pit - Manchester's lost, great coal mine
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John Scheerhout
5 years
A Chinook is dropping another load of aggregate on the breached dam at Whaley Bridge. This operation has been going on all night
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John Scheerhout
4 years
Here is my nomination for Bellend End Of The Day.... The Bolton man just back from Ibiza who had a house party instead of remaining in quarantine
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John Scheerhout
8 years
Whenever I feel sad, I have my @KarenDanczuk framed picture to cheer me up
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Chuffed to mintballs that my colleague @dobsonMEN has pointed out she’s two months younger than my Filofax. Yes I still have a Filofax
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It would have been strange indeed (and it was planned that way originally) that one of the chief constable's minions was going to deliver this apology... Police chief says he is 'disgusted' at the abuse grooming victims faced
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John Scheerhout
7 years
We need more cash for policing or the public will be in danger, Mayor Burnham warns the Chancellor
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John Scheerhout
5 years
Follow updates here LIVE: Operation Augusta reaction after explosive report exposes how police and local authorities failed children being groomed and raped by gangs
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John Scheerhout
6 years
Piccadilly Gardens has lost none of its allure. In the space of ten minutes I saw a collapsed crane and a mugger sprinting away with a stolen mobile, then chatted with a wino and @deankirby_ who was perfectly sober btw
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John Scheerhout
4 years
The online trolls constantly chirping ‘slow news day MEN?’ are just a fact of life for any of our journalists these days. Imagine my surprise then when a judge said pretty much the same thing for covering a couple of his sentencings today. At least he did it with a smile!
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Fun day in court: the prescient brother of a drug dealer who got five years for battering a newsagent shouted out that my story would be ‘bollocks’. I’m thinking more ‘the dog’s bollocks’. Only time will tell
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John Scheerhout
5 years
No gags (well almost no gags) about being the head of 'boring news' or the scruffiest journalist in Mcr. Just farewell & good luck to all round top bloke @davidottewell who, after many years, is leaving the warm bosom of @MENnewsdesk and the data unit he set up. Been a pleasure
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John Scheerhout
3 years
If you don't like gratuitous nautical references, things could get a bit choppy over the next five years - here's what the new skipper of GMP told me earlier today
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John Scheerhout
6 years
I've been laughing off jibes I look like a copper all week. Very amusing - until a judge mistook me for a copper today and invited me to take to the witness stand to explain how GMP was making a pig's ear of one particular case. Happily, I left it to the actual bobby to explain
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John Scheerhout
8 years
Old Trafford evacuation: army will have to search the entire ground, not just nw quadrant
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John Scheerhout
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Hale bus fire: the bus is being taken away
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John Scheerhout
3 years
Benjamin Mendy case: the hearing lasted just under an hour. Although no pleas were entered at this stage Mr Mendy strenuously denies the charges. The particulars of the charges state the four alleged rape offences happened at his home
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John Scheerhout
5 years
I always thought it was a badge of honour that Manchester didn’t have a Michelin starred restaurant where you would pay a small fortune for foam on a plate decorated with hundreds and thousands
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John Scheerhout
4 years
I’m finding iOPS is a great ice breaker when you’re stopped by traffic cops and they’re struggling to check your details on their systems
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John Scheerhout
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City centre stabbing: this now has all the hallmarks of a very serious incident. The police helicopter is circling overhead
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John Scheerhout
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Old Trafford bomb scare: I understand police will examine whether the hoax may have been a sinister 'test' by terrorists
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John Scheerhout
4 years
The beautiful moment the police helicopter @NPASNorthWest made a little boy's day and left dad @SpecialGreg91 bursting with pride
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John Scheerhout
4 years
It's infuriating the Home Office won't say why Adil Khan and his mates haven't been deported. The 'we never discuss individual cases' argument doesn't wash if he has been through two well publicised legal processes... It means this can happen to his victim
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John Scheerhout
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Old Trafford evacuation: Experts are now examining the remains of the phone/device found on the pipe following controlled explosion
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John Scheerhout
8 years
Old Trafford evacuation: police sources say threat from terrorism remains 'severe' so no risk will be taken
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John Scheerhout
6 years
Forgot to turn my phone to silent in court yesterday. You can guess the rest. Apologies all round including to the prosecutor who was just launching into his opening speech to the jury. Thankfully it was just a regular ring tone.
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City centre incident: trams are running through Exchange Square again
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John Scheerhout
6 years
Very happy to say that the Dean Kirby who just appeared in court on firearms charges is not, I repeat NOT @deankirby_ I never really doubted you Deano
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John Scheerhout
6 years
The Manchester Evening News, 150 years of telling your stories And I’m pretty sure ⁦ @NealkeelingMEN ⁩ got the splash in the first edition!
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