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In 2007 Kasha Peniston, 19, received a two-year sentence for manslaughter after killing his 12-year-old sister at his family home in Gorton. Now the teenager has pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court for possessing a gun again five months after his release from a Young Offenders Institution in May 2008.
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The cost Manchester of hosting 2018 World Cup matches in Manchester would be £30m paid for by local taxpayers. This is the sum that Manchester City Council has estimated it will need to set aside to pay for marketing, promotion and cleaning up after matches. Labour MP for Blackley, Graham Stringer, said ‘It’s ludicrous. The public sector should not have to pay anything. I met the chief executive of the bid and told him it was completely and totally absurd. Asking the public sector to pay when they will make a fortune beggars belief.’ Archery club member Peter Carr, from Asheton Bowmen, would rather see minority sports have the money: ‘We don’t even own our own building. Just one per cent of that money would do it. We are totally self funded and it can be a bit of struggle. Why can’t the footballers put their hands in their own pockets? Some of them are on £170,000 a week. If each Premier League player donated a week’s wages that would cover it. Why should the tax payers suffer?’ WFTS comments - A strategic plan to maximise participation in youth sport to go with plans for hosting matches is what is really needed.
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Cheetham Community Primary has been praised for the development of links with a primary school in Nanjing, China. The school in Cheetham Hill, Manchester has put on classes in Mandarin, Tai-Vhi, kung-fu and calligraphy, with some year 6 pupils travelling to China to visit the school. WFTS comments - intercultural learning is a positive that should be embraced by all schools.
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Bolton Lads and Girls Club and MA Photography students from the University of Bolton, are working together to produce a book. The LEAP project will aim to engage young people in education, the arts and enterprise, with students supporting the young people to produce the pictures for the book. The club is open 363 days of the year and has over 2,500 young people passing through its doors each week. The book will be priced at £9.99, it will have 80 pages and will feature poetry by Ian McMillan. The proceeds will all go towards the running costs of the youth club.
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A 30-year-old student was gunned down outside a money transfer business in Longsight. Khurram Ashraf had left the money transfer business with the owner Muhammad Waquas, when the gunman ordered Mr Waquas to hand over a bag he was carrying with cash and a laptop in it. The bag was thrown to Mr Ashraf whom refused to hand it over, at which point he was shot in the stomach. The gunman fired two shots at Mr Waqas as he ran away. Mr Ashraf was rushed to hospital but died. Four men aged 20, 25, 26 and 29 have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
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The owners of Manchester City FC are looking to buy Eastlands in a bid to develop a sport, retail and entertainment project. Talks between Sheik Mansour and Manchester City Council have taken place with indications of a hotel, shop and leisure facilities, an increased stadium capacity to 60,000 and an on-site training ground.
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Singer and Strictly judge Alesha Dixon was in the region watching young people dance at the Zion Community Arts Centre in Hulme whilst filming for the Children in Need programme. Alesha said that she wished that there had been something like that for her when she was younger and hoped that Mancunians would give generously to help fund projects such as the Zion Centre.
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A gang of 40 youths attacked fire fighters who were trying to put out an unsafe fire in Hyde. The fire fighters had to retreat to their engines and call police. One young person was arrested. In Bury a man, aged 25, was shot twice in each leg at his home. Four men aged 20 to 27 have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
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Students of Broad Oak High School in Partington will soon be able to spend time and the new £5 million youth centre based at their school. Of course young people outside of the school will be able to visit also. The facility, branded the largest youth club in the country was previously highlighted in WFTS when Sir Alex Ferguson visited the project. Now almost complete, it boasts a 400-seat cinema, music studio, gym and café. Young people will also be on a Board to make decisions on the day-to-day running of the centre. The financial award to the project was the largest single award made by the Department for Children, Schools and Families with other projects in Manchester and Oldham also winning bids. The building will be known locally as the ‘Fuse’ as the young people said, it is the fuse that lights up their creativity!
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Shootings in Manchester continue with a 21 year old shot 7 times just yards from a house where two suspects were arrested for a killing only 5 days earlier. Junaid Khan was gunned down in a car park in front of his girlfriend outside his family’s convenient store in Oldham. WFTS – clearly not a case of mistaken identity.
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A sick act which has left the widow of former Joy Division frontman, Ian Curtis in shock as his tombstone was stolen from his grave. The stone had the words ‘Ian Curtis 18-5-80 and the lyrics ‘Love Will ear Us Apart’ printed on it was stolen from Macclesfield Cemetery. The stone was extremely heavy and someone will have gone to extreme lengths to remove it. Thousands of people have travelled to the cemetery to pay their respects over the years since his death in 1980. Cheshire police are investigating.
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