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1. Depressed teenager planned his own death in chat room
Stockport Express, Wednesday 2 June 2004A GRAMMAR school boy who posed as a secret service agent in an attempt to arrange his own murder has been banned from using internet chat rooms and placed under a three-year supervision order.
2. Pastor helps parish dim crims see the light
Stockport Express, Wednesday 16 June 2004CHEEKY kids posing as church fund-raisers have been leading Stockport folk up the garden path... but they came up against a stumbling block when they appealed for a fictitious church youth group - to the church's own vicar!
3. ‘Gutted’ fan faces 3 year football ban
Stockport Express, Wednesday 16 June 2004A SUSPECTED football hooligan from Offerton has been banned from Euro 2004 after police grabbed him boarding a plane to Portugal.
4. Police hunt bat-wielding robber
Stockport Express, Wednesday 2 June 2004AN armed thug who raided a takeaway while wielding a cricket bat is being hunted by police.
5. Vandals sewing the seeds of discontent
Stockport Express, Wednesday 2 June 2004HEARTBROKEN gardeners are appealing for vandals to leave their beloved allotments alone following a spate of attacks that have destroyed plants, sheds and tools.
6. ‘It was a long, hard battle’
Stockport Express, Wednesday 30 June 2004THE CHEADLE man jailed for 11 years after being wrongly convicted of drug smuggling has spoken of his relief at finally being freed.
7. This stinks!
Stockport Express, Wednesday 9 June 2004A CHEADLE Heath family has blasted council bosses after being forced to live with the stench of open sewage flowing under their floor boards for three weeks.
8. Sight for sore eyes as our bobbies walk beat
Stockport Express, Wednesday 9 June 2004POLICE officers will soon be completing paperwork in their cars and travelling on buses instead of in police vehicles as Stockport's police boss unveils plans to make the town safer.
9. Police probe firm promising pubs ‘customers for cash’
Stockport Express, Wednesday 30 June 2004POLICE and trading standards bosses are preparing to clamp down on a Stockport-based scam company which could have fleeced thousands of pounds from pubs right across the country.
10. Masked gang threaten staff in bank raid
Stockport Express, Wednesday 9 June 2004TERRIFIED staff at a Romiley bank were confronted with an armed gang wielding a manhole cover and an axe.