Yahoo News The Mancunian Way: A long and cruel fight for justice
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It was a cold, January evening when a family was ripped apart. As tens of thousands of Manchester United fans swarmed out of Old Trafford following a Premier League game, just a short distance away, a young life was cruelly cut short.
Kennie Carter was just 16 when he was murdered on a Saturday night in Stretford. Stabbed once to the heart, he stood no chance.
Cut down at such a tender age, over a petty feud which he found himself at the centre of. Consumed by grief, Kennie’s family looked for answers.
Heartbreaking appeals and cash rewards were offered, as month after month they clung onto the hope that Kennie’s killer would be caught. About 21 months after Kennie’s death, news emerged that enough evidence had been gathered by police to bring charges.
And now, weeks away from what would have been Kennie’s 18th birthday, four young men have been convicted for their part in his death. It has been a long and cruel road for Kennie’s parents, Glen Carter and Joan Dixon.
They were ugly but they were ours
“When people ask me where I live, I say on Bradford Road, just opposite the gas thing.” Anthony Bowden has lived in the shadow of Bradford’s landmark gas holders for more than 20 years.
But not for much longer. Despite once playing an integral part in securing Manchester’s gas supply, advances in technology have consigned them to history.
National Grid, who owned the gas holders, was given permission to demolish the rusting structures – located off Bradford Road and Alan Turing Way, near the Etihad stadium – in 2022. The Bradford Road gas holder has been demolished and work to dismantle the Alan Turing Way tower is well underway.
And while some living in the shadow of the gas holders viewed them as a relic from a bygone era, others say they are sad to see them go, as Paige Oldfield found out.
The man hoping to oust George Galloway
This time four months ago, Rochdale was going into a by-election without a Labour candidate actually standing. Now, Rochdale-born political journalist Paul Waugh is running as the Labour party candidate for the general election in July.
He was one of three candidates in the running to be a by-election candidate back in February, but in the end he lost out to Lancashire County councillor Azhar Ali, from whom Labour would withdraw its support after he made 'deeply offensive' comments about Israel. During a wide-ranging interview with George Lythgoe, Mr Waugh admits that the by-election was ‘a car crash’ for Labour, but says that's all in the past now.
And he hopes to win back the seat with a direct appeal to voters.”This is not a by-election, this is a general election,” he says.
“It’s a once-in-a-generation chance to swap this rotten Tory government with a serious Labour government. I want Rochdale to be part of a national wave of change that I hope sweeps the country on July 4. I genuinely think that is the only way to get real change in Rochdale.”
‘No-one turned up’
It’s rude, inconsiderate and - for the venues on the receiving end - pretty costly. But still customers keep failing to show-up for pre-booked tables.
The latest place to fall victim to the no-shows is Stockport pub Petersgate Tap. This week bosses shared their frustrations after three tables of punters didn’t turn up for the England match on Tuesday night.
“We had three tables booked tonight for the England game and no one turned up,” they tweeted. “Extra staff laid on who expect to be paid. Roll on the 6 Nations…”
Lost for good?
It’s north Manchester’s oldest building. But for years Hough Hall in Moston has been left to go to rack and ruin.
And now part of it could be lost forever. A planning application has been submitted to demolish around a quarter of the 16th Century Grade II-listed hall.
Weather etc
Friday: Light rain changing to cloudy by later morning, 18C.
Roadworks: There are narrow lanes and 50mph speed restrictions due to long-term roadworks on M6 in both directions between J21A Croft Interchange J26 Orrell Interchange.
Manchester headlines
Duped: An inexperienced prison officer who was ‘duped’ into a ‘sham romance’ with a convicted rapist inmate tried to smuggle drugs worth tens of thousands of pounds into Forest Bank prison for him and his cellmate. Hannah Angwaba, 30, was ‘exploited’ by Anton McPherson, 34, who ‘love bombed’ her in a bid to win her affection shortly after she started work, a court heard. Read more
Bus fire: There were long delays on a key route in Trafford this morning after a bus caught fire. The blaze broke out just after 6am on the A6144 Carrington Lane. Pictures from the scene showed huge clouds of smoke billowing from the double-decker Stagecoach bus. More here
Tributes: The devastated family of a teenager who tragically died after 'losing control' of a motorcycle at an off-road track in Tyldesley have paid tribute to him. Josh Sharpe, described as a much-loved 'son, brother and loving partner’, was 'enjoying himself' on his bike at the race track on Morley's Lane on Saturday before the horrific incident.
Worth a read
Hours before the D-Day landings SAS soldier Kenneth Bateman parachuted into France. The Salford-born corporal was part of Operation Bulbasket, a top secret sabotage mission to blow up a key railway yard and block the Paris to Bordeaux line.
But tragically the SAS team’s base was betrayed to the Germans. Some 33 SAS men, including Cpl Bateman, were captured and executed by the Nazis. Now on the 80th anniversary of his death, Alfie Mulligan looks back at the war hero’s remarkable story…
