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• £100m boost for Wythenshawe centre 09/12/09 n A £100m regeneration scheme will bring a new bus station and a major office development to a south Manchester suburb.n Wythenshawe will benefit from the transport boost under radical plans Read more

• Tributes to man stabbed to death 09/12/09 The family of a man stabbed to death at his home in Bury, pay tribute to him as police appeal for help to find his killer. Read more

• Children's boss axed after death 09/12/09 The director of a children's services department which admitted failings in the protection of a murdered toddler is sacked. Read more

• Men in court over robbery killing 09/12/09 Three men are in court charged with the murder of a student who was shot dead in a street robbery. Read more

• Children's boss sacked over death 09/12/09 The director of a children's services department which admitted failings in the protection of a murdered toddler is sacked. Read more

• Salford child care boss Jill Baker sacked 09/12/09 A CHILDREN'S services boss has been sacked after refusing to resign with a pay off.n Jill Baker – the woman in charge of children's services in Salford - had been suspended from her £105,000 po Read more

• Darling delivers Pre-Budget Report 09/12/09 CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling is making his last Pre-Budget Report to Parliament before the next General Election. You can keep up to date with developments here. Read more

• Kick-boxing teacher to take charge 09/12/09 MOST rookie teachers struggle to keep classroom discipline - but students do what they're told in Kim Stafford's lessons.n The softly-spoken biology teacher has just taken up her post at Xaverian Read more

• Services get back to normal after hospital blasts 09/12/09 SERVICES at Withington Hospital are back to normal today following yesterday's gas explosion on Nell Lane. n Read more

• Council bosses call for cheap booze ban 09/12/09 THE region's top powers - including council bosses and the Chief Constable - are calling for a minimum price on booze.n Leaders of the area's ten local authorities and Greater Manchester Police's Read more

• North opera house plan moves on 09/12/09 The Lowry arts centre withdraws its opposition to a northern base for the Royal Opera House in Manchester. Read more

• Charges in missing man probe 09/12/09 Two people are charged in connection with the disappearance of a man who has been missing for four months. Read more

• Nearly 100 held in police raids 09/12/09 Nearly 100 people are arrested across Greater Manchester in raids targeting robbery, burglary, violence and theft suspects. Read more

• Schools closed after gas blasts 09/12/09 Three schools remain shut in south Manchester after two explosions at a former hospital site. Read more

• Gas pipe riddle over flats blast 09/12/09 AN EXPLOSION which blew apart a block of luxury flats was sparked when a workman cut through a live gas pipe which he thought had been disconnected, we can reveal today.n Investigations were cont Read more