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1. Council issues danger lamp posts warning
Middleton Guardian, Monday 24 June 2002DRIVERS have been warned that a number of street lighting columns are in danger of collapsing.
2. Dominic gets red card for the big match
Middleton Guardian, Wednesday 26 June 2002ONE of England's youngest fans, four-year-old Dominic Steven Taylor had a double reason to be disappointed by last Friday's crunch match with Brazil. For even before the game he had been red-carded by his school.
3. Action plea against Jubilee tree killers
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 20 June 2002NURSERIES are places for nurturing tender young things of both the botanical and human variety. So when staff at a council-run horticultural nursery heard that children at a community nursery needed help, they immediately went to the rescue.
4. Place in town's history assured
Middleton Guardian, Wednesday 12 June 2002A LOCAL historian and well-loved member of the Middleton community has died at the age of 70.
5. Hair-raising act to help stricken son
Middleton Guardian, Monday 17 June 2002A HOLLIN dad has decided on a hair-raising stunt to help raise cash to help pay for aftercare after his son's tragic accident.
6. Vicar throws open his garden for charity
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 27 June 2002TAKING the biblical expression "as you sow, so shall you reap" quite literally is the Vicar of St Michael's, Tonge-cum-Alkrington, the Rev Gordon Joyce.
7. Eyes down for charity
Middleton Guardian, Friday 14 June 2002STAFF at a local firm of opticians will be raising their glasses in more ways than one when they send a consignment of used spectacles to the Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) charity.
8. Park police ready for Games rush
Middleton Guardian, Friday 21 June 2002GREATER Manchester Police have pledged to deliver a safe, secure and enjoyable Commonwealth Games.
9. End of an era as care homes go
Middleton Guardian, Wednesday 19 June 2002IT IS now almost certain the council's Schofield House old folks home in Hollin will close next year, despite protests from the families of pensioners living there.
10. School to get its own bobby
Middleton Guardian, Wednesday 12 June 2002MIDDLETON'S Queen Elizabeth School could be the first in the area to have a policeman permanently assigned to it as part of a new initiative to combat bad behaviour.