TRAFFORD Arts Association is holding its AGM at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale on September 17 at 7pm. Anyone interested in attending should contact Meg Cooper on 0161 881 8416 or e-mail meg.cooper@btinternet.com The TAA is an umbrella organisation
ST Matthew's Church, Chester Road, Stretford, is the venue for a Nearly As New Sale organised by the Trafford branch of the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) on September 15 from 10.30am to 12 noon. Admission is £1 for adults and a range of goods will
ST MARGARET'S Church on Dunham Road in Altrincham is holding a coffee morning and bric-a-brac sale tomorrow from 10am to 4pm
PHILIPPE Saint-Andre believes his squad are in good shape for the new season following last Friday's inter-squad game at Edgeley Park. Although the Sharks director of rugby admitted there is plenty of work still to be done before his side's opening Premiership
ALTRINCHAM Garrick celebrates 75 years at its Barrington Road Playhouse this October and the society launches its new season with the musical version of a modern day classic. The stage show of The Full Monty transports the moving and hilarious tale of
THIS summer may have been nothing to write home about weather wise, but, for Trafford's female theatregoers, the temperature is set to soar in the Altrincham Garrick auditorium next month. The company is reviving its production of the musical The Full
BETWEEN them, Andy and Judith Fox have contributed nearly 80 years service to the Canterbury Players. Although Andy didn't start acting with the society until 1981, he'd been involved backstage since the mid 60s, while his wife started treading the boards
MRS Agnes Brown, the acid tongued matriarch with a handbag full of barbed comments, is back. Brendan O'Carroll's sublime comic creation has returned to Manchester and the Opera House audience gobbled up every line on Tuesday night. Mrs Brown's Last
A RACE relations charity boss has been chosen as the Parliamentary candidate for Stretford and Urmston. More than 100 people took part in the vote at Manor Lodge Hotel in Urmston on July 26 and selected 36-year-old Mark Versallion to take on Labour's
RHYME Time sessions - aimed at children under two and their parents and carers - are held at Partington Library every Friday at 9.30am and at Stretford library every Friday at 2.30pm. A Rhyme Time has started at Woodsend Library every Tuesday morning
THE Bowdon and District Royal British Legion is holding its annual general meeting on October 10. The venue will be The Railway Inn, Ashley Road, Hale. The evening begins at 7.30pm, all members are welcome.
Can you help? We must confess Our stock is getting less and less. Please have a look inside your cupboards, Ours look just like Mother Hubbard's. We're needing china, glass and wood, Paintings and prints and kitchen goods. Ornaments in plenty,
JOE O'Neill has insisted Alty will not rest on their laurels after their late, late show against York on Tuesday night. The striker popped up in the second minute of injury time to punish his old club and seal a deserved 2-2 draw at Bootham Crescent.
SEVEN hundred mental health workers have called a second three-day strike in defence of their union representative and her suspension from nursing. Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust (MMHSCT) suspended Karen Reissmann, a community psychiatric
THE main stage in The Orient at the Trafford Centre is the venue for an Unsigned Bands Showcase on September 8 from 1pm to 5pm. Admission is free and the event will include live performances by Harrison Drive, Ogo, Former Nelson and Alexis McClean.
THE 43 bus service which runs from Manchester Piccadilly to Manchester Airport is to run throughout the night from this week. The Stagecoach Manchester bus service from Piccadilly Station to Manchester Airport, which travels through Wythenshawe, is to
