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One of Manchester's most culturally diverse suburbs, Cheetham Hill has seen Irish, Jewish, Caribbean and Asian settlers. Directly north of Manchester city centre, the area is bustling with colourful fruit and veg stalls and fabric shops alongside takeaways and wholesale businesses. Cheetham Hill is also home to Manchester's Irish Heritage Centre, and the Manchester Transport Museum. Famous residents have included The Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett and Don Arden, manager of The Faces and dad to Sharon Osborne.

CCTV video: Six masked robbers target shop worker in Cheetham Hill raid

The footage shows the six masked raiders - all said to be teenagers - calmly walked into Premier Stores in Cheetham Hill

Would-be thieves who made a baby cry after targeting young mum branded 'disgusting'

The 21-year-old mum was walking in a Cheetham Hill park with her two children when robbers accosted her and shook her pram, causing the baby to cry

Five arrested as dawn raids across region target drug dealing

The raids follow an 18-month police crackdown on street dealing in Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall, which resulted in 52 people being handed jail sentences totalling 147 years.

Pictures and Video: Stockport's Harley is the Pride of Britain

Brave Harley Lane, the child who lost all four limbs to meningitis and the three women who rushed to Middleton soldier Lee Rigby’s aid were honoured at the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Britain Awards.

Man watches as his wife is killed by a lorry on Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester

Shocked witnesses heard the husband’s desperate screams after the crash shortly before 2pm yesterday. Officers arrested the driver of the lorry on suspicion of causing death by driving without due care and attention.

Woman dies after she was hit by a lorry on Cheetham Hill Road

The victim, a pedestrian, died at the scene and the lorry driver, a man, has been arrested on suspicion of careless driving.

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'No ill-feelings': Family forgive driver who reversed over grandmother and killed her

Surinder Kaur Singh, 69, suffered horrifying injuries after being hit by the reversing Renault Laguna and died in hospital the same day.

Spared jail: Motorist who reversed into pensioner and killed her

Usman Hussain, 39, was at the wheel of his Renault Laguna when he struck 69-year-old Surinder Kaur Singh in Cheetham Hill, last October.

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Police stop search for body of ‘murdered’ mum Rania Alayed

The 25-year-old was last seen in public in Salford on June 7. Police are convinced she has been killed and have charged her husband and his brother with her murder

Potholed Alderglen Road in Cheetham Hill is one of five streets where repairs will not be completed until November or December. exclusive

In a hole: Town hall blunder means repairs to 45 Manchester roads delayed for months

Delays in processing paperwork by Manchester council bureaucrats meant that the jobs were not passed on to external contractors in time to complete the jobs during the summer

Wanted man being chased by police hit by a van after getting out of car and running away

The drama unfolded just outside the park in Prestwich at around 3pm today.

Cheetham Hill mum-to-be lights BBQ in kitchen after craving corn

Potentially-fatal fumes  filled the kitchen of her terrace house on Queens Road, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, after she lit the portable barbie.

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Concern for missing teen last seen in Cheetham Hill two weeks ago

Soumia Benhajfraj, 16, was last seen in Cheetham Hill, north Manchester, on Tuesday 3 September.

Church faces closure due to dwindling congregation

Church bosses have published plans to close St John The Evangelist, saying there simply aren’t enough people who attend church every Sunday.

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Revealed: Shocking abuse faced by Manchester's traffic wardens

Several officials were racially abused, spat on, punched and had their ticket machines broken, while one warden found his bike covered in urine

Manchester's high schools could take children aged five to deal with booming demand

Schools in the city are already struggling to cope with pupil numbers – so plans are underway to to expand primaries and allow some high schools to take younger pupils

Lifeline for the Cheetham Hill club with a very special goal

Abraham Moss Warriors in Cheetham Hill have won every trophy going since being founded in 2001.

Supt Vanessa Jardine with the advert in Piccadilly Gardens which shows how police are cracking down on drug dealers in North Manchester as part of Operation Cairo

Drugs crackdown left 45 dealers in jail for total of 147 years

A new advert was unveiled in Piccadilly Gardens proclaiming the success of Operation Cairo, the police crackdown on drug dealers in North Manchester.

A stray firework shooting across the road captured on a teenage motorcyclist’s ‘helmet cam’ exclusive

Video: Biker's firework terror capture on camera mounted on helmet

Joe Furness, 18, was showered with sparks after the large firework exploded, shot across the road and flew over him.

Testing time: Failsworth named as toughest place to pass driving test

New figures from the Driving Standards Agency have revealed a great divide in the region’s test centres.

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