Funding admission as Moorgate Halt replacement cost detailed at inquiry 

HAVING to replace a Saddleworth level crossing with a footbridge would add millions of pounds to a multi-billion pound rail project’s cost.  But those behind Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) admitted…

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Ascot Ladies’ Day event promises frocks, fascinators and fundraising for hospice

“PUTTING THE ‘fun’ in ‘fundraising’” is how Joanne Penketh describes Saddleworth’s biggest women’s fashion event of the year.  She is talking, of course, about the…

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Saddleworth author’s upcoming book a ‘cultural celebration’ of Ireland – and Mossley 

“IMAGINE being sent away at 19-years-old and being invited with an old school friend to live in an Atlantic seaside cottage, by a legendary folk singer…

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Familiar sights await Kevin Sinfield as latest fundraising challenge route revealed

KEVIN Sinfield is running through home as his final fundraising challenge takes him across familiar territory.  The rugby league legend, now skills and kicking coach…

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Public inquiry hears of ‘benefits’ and ‘disruption’ of Saddleworth rail scheme 

A CONTROVERSIAL multi-billion pound railway scheme through Saddleworth would cause ‘major disruption’, a public inquiry will hear.  It may also place some of the area’s biggest events – the Whit Friday Brass Band Contests –…

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