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Harpurhey was once named the most-deprived neighbourhood in England but has recently seen significant investment in its district centre and through the new Manchester Communication Academy - one of the city's largest schools. It was the birthplace of 'A Clockwork Orange' author Anthony Burgess and is also the home of late comic Bernard Manning's 'World Famous Embassy Club'.

Accolades for Manchester City Ladies' 'Homo Hero' goalie

Andie Worrall - a 36-year-old lifelong Blue, from Hyde - is the only openly gay elite-level women’s footballer and when she is not playing, she's a housing manager for some of the city's toughest estates

Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central

Saved: Reprieve for chemists in deprived areas that faced the axe

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The move has been hailed as ‘great news’ by campaigners who said the closures would have hit local patients hard and had pledged to fight them.

In Touch: Join the lads club's reunion

Here’s the latest selection of readers’ memories and bids to find long-lost family members and friends

Coun Nigel Murphy

Talking Digital: Go on, volunteer to pass on your vital digital skills

Councillor Nigel Murphy, executive member for environment on Manchester council, on how you can find out how the web can do life-changing things for you

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Greater Manchester school information: The Lighthouse Group (TLG) Centre, Harpurhey

Find out more about The Lighthouse Group Centre

North west projects help to boost skills

As part of our Jobs Month campaign, we look at two Greater Manchester organisations working to raise young people's aspirations and basic skills at an early age

Festival puts spotlight on Harpurhey's REAL People Like Us

Residents are hoping their film festival will show the true face of the area

Talking Digital with councillor Nigel Murphy

Since the first tweet was sent in 2006 the site has grown phenomenally and now has 200m users sending 500m tweets (messages in 140 characters or less) a day

Nostalgia: Docks chaos as strikers bring work to standstill

Sarah Walters looks back at what was making the new in Manchester 100 years ago

Football giving young people a sporting chance

The power of football is helping to get Manchester people working.

Revealed: Human cost of hard-hitting welfare cuts in Manchester

New research warns of overcrowding, new social ghettos, soaring levels of debt and mental illness – with minorities bearing the brunt

Artistic Harpurhey shows off its bright side

The Show It Off gallery was launched at Harpurhey Neighbourhood Centre showing the creative prowess of local people and artistic shots of the area.

Pat Karney: A passion for fashion of getting a tattoo

Some are astonishing – whole arms sleeved in tattoos. Now I see young men and women with tattoos growing up their necks.

North Manchester burglar on the run from jail

20-year-old Jordan Bailey absconded from HMP Thorn Cross young offenders institute in Warrington on August 4

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Crime falls as Greater Manchester Police move into new £64m north Manchester HQ

Officers from six areas were merged into three and moved into the force’s new £64m Central Park headquarters late last year – which GMP say has reduced offending.

Fatal plunge window cleaner was keeping up his Cheetham Hill round for ‘pennies’

Michael Corlett, described by friends as ‘colourful’ and ‘cheerful’, refused to give up his traditional beat but only charged customers a nominal fee.

We’re lucky to be alive, say family as Harpurhey ‘Solar panel’ roof caves in

Janet Locke’s ceiling came down in an upstairs bedroom where her 10 grandchildren often play computer games. Fortunately nobody was in the room at the time.

Moston stabbings: Dead suspect in DJ murder probe ‘may have stabbed himself’

Prime suspect Darren Gasper, 34, was found dead hours later from mystery knife wounds in a car he had stolen which crashed into a pub.

Moston murder: Robert Jackson died from 'blunt force' head injuries and multiple stab wounds, post-mortem reveals

The Manchester DJ, 41, was battered and stabbed repeatedly, a post-mortem examination has found. His 13-year-old daughter Ayeshea Collins remains in a critical condition in hospital

Moston stabbings: Critically injured Ayeshea Collins, 13, and her murdered dad Robert Jackson pictured for first time

The teenager remains in a critical condition in hospital after she was found lying beside murdered father. The 41-year-old former DJ was friends with Stone Roses’ star Mani and Happy Mondays dancer Bez

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