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Boys left in a Spin (Macclesfield Express)
First Division Spinners proved too strong for Premier Division strugglers Macc Boys Seniors as they progressed into the Quarter finals of the League Cup at Bollington Cross with a 3-1 win.
Defence policy run on 'a wing and a prayer' (Epolitix )
Conservative politicians lined up to attack Labour's record on defence yesterday, with Liam Fox accusing Gordon Brown of having an "instinctive lack of interest" in the military.
The ATM was the last great financial innovation - community blog from Paul Penrose (Finextra)
How do you define innovation in finance? Are we talking about the creation of new synthetic debt instruments, famously decried by Warren Buffet as "financial weapons of mass destruction".
Winterton queries freedom of information cost (Epolitix )
The cost of handling freedom of information requests made of Parliament is £165,000 per annum, Commons authorities have revealed.
Maine men take the right Road (South Manchester Reporter)
MAINE Road gained a league double and avenged a Vodkat Cup defeat with a well merited 2-1 win at Winsford. Road began brightly and took the lead on four minutes when Danny Self coolly slotted home following some good approach work.
Beaten in battle of promotion rivals (South Manchester Reporter)
BROUGHTON Park found promotion rivals Wilmslow too hot to handle after taking the lead in a bright start when they opened the scoring with a try from Mosey coverted by Ronan O’Brien. But the home team soon levelled with a try of their own and quickly added two more to take charge of the game.
Tory grandee Nicholas Winterton rails at prospect of second-class travel (Times Online)
Passengers with cheap train tickets are "a totally different type of people" to MPs, a senior Conservative said yesterday as he complained how unfair it was to stop parliamentarians claiming for the cost of first-class rail travel.
Saturday FA Cup’s final four decided (Macclesfield Express)
Cup quarter-final weekend saw last season’s two finalists, Club AZ and Congleton Vale, cruise through to the semi-finals once again. They are joined in the pot by Boarhound and Congleton Athletic.
Fury at arrogant Tory Sir Nicholas Winterton's refusal to travel standard class on trains (Daily Mirror)
Desperate David Cameron was last night reeling from an angry public backlash over the snobbery and arrogance of Tory MP Sir Nicholas Winterton.
MR SNOBBY (Daily Mirror)
Arrogant MP's train rant exposes Cameron's 'caring sharing' Tories as a sham