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It's unexpected, let's put it that way

Everyday life through the eyes of Philip Westcott

'One dog must have been hungry. It leapt through a ring of fire, carried on to a dining table next to the stage, and grabbed a steak off a lady's plate'

Janice McVicar, 57, from Eccles, Greater Manchester, had been drinking Bacardi and Coke in her daughter's garden before ploughing into bride-to-be Jade Edmonds in her Range Rover

Workmen laying electricity cables discovered an 8m deep hole underneath Liverpool Road in Eccles

One seat was up for grabs in the wards of Barton and Winton, Blackfriars and Trinity, Boothstown and Ellenbrook, Broughton, Cadishead and Lower Irlam, Claremont, Eccles, Higher Irlam and Peel Green, Kersal and Broughton Park, Little Hulton, Ordsall, Pendlebury and Clifton, Pendleton and Charlestown, Quays, Swinton and Wardley, Swinton Park,…

Police are investigating after the burglary in Eccles

Craig Akhtar Bissa is the third resident to have died at St Joseph's in Eccles, an inquest has heard