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TWO PROMINENT CHURCH OF ENGLAND bishops from Manchester have joined the attack on government morality. Nigel McCulloch, the Bishop of Manchester, said the Labour Party had been "beguiled by money" and was "morally corrupt". The Bishop of Hulme (in Manchester Diocese), Stephen Lowe, said: "The government isn't telling people who are already deep in debt to stop overextending themselves, but instead is urging us to spend more." The Bishop later told the BBC, "the notion of greed, of getting something you want immediately using the credit card" needed to be reversed.

STUPID PEOPLE CAN’T STOP calling 999 over trivial causes. Calls to Greater Manchester Police include a priest dialling 999 when Manchester Airport's WH Smith wouldn’t allow him to use the toilet. Other calls include a woman protesting she couldn’t get through to Strictly Come Dancing to vote for Tom Chambers, and a man who complained takeaway staff had wrongly added mushrooms to his pizza.

A MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED with murder following the death of woman killed in a ‘freak’ incident in a Heywood pub. Mother of three Emma O’Kane was celebrating her boyfriend’s birthday in the Queen Anne when a nineteen year old man, who’d been barred , threw a bottle into the pub. The bottle hit a pillar and a shard hit her in the neck, severing an artery.

A FIRE AT A TOWER block in Ashton-under-Lyne resulted in the death of 51-year-old man last night. He died jumping from an eighth-floor window to escape the blaze.