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1. Unnur is mane event at NSPCC abuse campaign

Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 19 July 2006
IF THERE weren't already enough good reasons to sign up as an NSPCC volunteer - you can actually get to meet Miss World.

2. Biker claims officer 'hid behind a wall'

Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 12 July 2006
THE BOSS of an advertising agency behind a "speed kills" radio campaign has vowed to go "all the way" in his fight against Macclesfield Police - after accusing an officer of "hiding behind a garden wall" to nab him.

3. Police hunt 38 rifles stolen in raid

Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 12 July 2006
DETECTIVES were this week on high alert after a cache of 38 rifles was stolen in a daring early morning raid from the back of a wagon as its driver sat in the cab.

4. Final resting places

Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 5 July 2006
IN THE final part of our three part series, we tell the stories of the other four brave Maxonians, who fell on that blood drenched day in 1916. And we finish our series, which has taken in the men volunteering, training, fighting and dying by looking at their final resting places in Macclesfield, Bollington and France.

5. 'Pals' ready for battle

Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 5 July 2006
THE NINETIETH anniversary of one of the most infamous battles in British military history has passed. On the Somme in France, there were 60,000 casualties in a single day - July 1 1916. Every community was touched by the battle, including Macclesfield. Here, reporter JAMES CRISP looks at the role Maxonians played in a battle which ultimately led to the death of 500,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers ...

6. Over the top, boys!

Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 5 July 2006
ONLY one of the eight Macclesfield men killed on the first day of the battle lies in a marked grave - the remains of the others were lost forever in no-man's land.
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