The court reached the same conclusion in the case of Hannigan's accomplice 56-year-old Philip Grange, from Nottingham, who is serving an 18-year sentence.

BBC: Cocaine ring 'fixer' Peter Hannigan loses appeal

Paterson, from Edinburgh, attacked an 89-year-old man in Grange Road, at the junction with Chalmers Crescent.

BBC: Thief found guilty of attacking man, 89

Running down the spine of Mr Blair's constituency are the old mining villages of Trimdon Colliery, Trimdon Grange and Trimdon Village.

ECONOMIST: The north-north divide

Gareth Lewis, 18, and Victoria Clarke, 15, both from Grange-over-Sands were killed along with 18-year-old Anthony Ramsden, from Ulverston, in a car crash in the early hours of Sunday.

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