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1. Streets evacuated after blaze sparks ‘bomb’ threat
Stockport Express, Wednesday 7 September 2005FEARS of a gas explosion in Reddish caused emergency services to evacuate streets surrounding Roland Road for 24 hours, earlier this week.
2. Call for tougher line on football assaults
Stockport Express, Wednesday 7 September 2005EXCLUSIVE A YOUNG footballer's mum is calling for tough new measures against pitch violence after her son was left partially paralysed.
3. Katrina victims home safe
Stockport Express, Wednesday 7 September 2005EXCLUSIVE WEARING just a green surgeon's robe and flip-flops, a relieved Stockport student arrived back in Britain after escaping the devastating hurricane Katrina that tore through New Orleans.
4. Pub garden comes up roses as regular’s spirit lives on
Stockport Express, Wednesday 7 September 2005EXCLUSIVE LOCALS could set their watches by Ernie Crosse - who would be seated in the Hatters pub on Church Lane, Marple by 9pm every night, nursing his pint of mild.
5. 2005 GCSE and A-level results
Stockport Express, Tuesday 6 September 2005HERE'S your chance to see how students at the borough's secondary schools and colleges did in the 2005 GCSE and A-level exams.
6. That’s put cat among pigeons!
Stockport Express, Wednesday 14 September 2005FEATHERED fiends will have to find a new home in Stockport after a landlord won his battle to banish them from a railway bridge.
7. Panic at the petrol pumps
Stockport Express, Wednesday 14 September 2005FORECOURTS were gridlocked across the borough as petrol prices soared and fears loomed of a new fuel shortage.
8. ‘Miracle’ baby Debbie ties knot
Stockport Express, Wednesday 14 September 2005'SUGAR-bag-baby' Debbie Clarke will marry her sweetheart on October 8 - 37 years after the borough was united in prayer for her survival.
9. Residents toast ‘bar wars’ victory
Stockport Express, Wednesday 7 September 2005RESIDENTS have claimed a significant victory in the ongoing 'bar wars' saga after time was called on the late-night drinking application that had attracted the most objections in Stockport.
10. Well-known cabbie dies suddenly while holidaying in Kenya
Stockport Express, Wednesday 14 September 2005FRIENDS, family and colleagues gathered to say their final farewells to well known local taxi driver Jack Garforth who died suddenly while on holiday.