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21. Booze causes most arrests
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 3 January 2007MACCLESFIELD Police made 26 arrests over the Christmas period as emergency services raised their game to combat the seasonal surge in calls.
22. Dishonest officers sacked
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 3 January 2007EXCLUSIVE TWO DETECTIVES have been booted out of the police force in disgrace after being found guilty of stealing confiscated cash following a 39-day police disciplinary hearing - and a £1m investigation that lasted three years.
23. Farmers' fears over outbreak of sheep rustling
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 27 December 2006THE GRUESOME discovery of eight lambs' heads on moorland has led to fears that black market butchers are targeting the village of Wildboarclough.
24. Cannabis farm run by father and sons
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 20 December 2006A CROWN Court judge warned a 20-year-old pot dealer not to join his family's drug business after his father and older brother were each jailed for three years for running a huge £70,000 "sophisticated" cannabis factory.
25. Big Brother’s looking and talking to you all
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 13 December 2006COUNCILLORS' plans to review the borough's CCTV system led to a bizarre discussion into the merits of attaching loudspeakers to cameras.
26. What prompted this act of evil?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 6 December 2006LOCAL thug Lee Cotterill was an unemployed 22-year-old "gangster" living with elderly relatives when voices in his head told him to kill his neighbour - a kind old lady who treated him like a grandson when he was a child.
27. Face of a beast
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 6 December 2006LEE Cotterill - a paranoid schizophrenic who savagely mutilated an arthritic old lady with a meat cleaver in a prolonged, frenzied attack - has been sent to a secure mental hospital.
28. ‘Disgusting, evil cowards’
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 6 December 2006EXCLUSIVE THE FIGHTING spirit shown by Lilian Lovatt in her battle for life was displayed at an early time in her life.
29. Doctors stopped counting Lilian’s wounds when they reached 70
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 6 December 2006A MEAT cleaver in a black box was held up in a hushed courtroom as a grim exhibit in the case of the attempted murder of widowed pensioner Lilian Lovatt.
30. From walking around London dressed as a toothbrush to appearing alongside Keira Knightley
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 29 November 2006THE TOPSY-turvey life of an actor is famously unpredictable.