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Plans to build flats for homeless people in a car park in Trafford have been approved just months after they were described as 'ridiculous'. The plans for 12 cottage-style affordable apartments off Shawe Road in Urmston have been given the green light after changes were made, with the new building now further away from nearby properties.

A prison officer accused of murdering his friend told jurors that he feared he was going to ‘possibly rape’ him so put him in a chokehold to ‘regain control’.

A close friend of a man allegedly murdered at a 'debauched' celebration on his 40th birthday has recalled the moment she realised 'something had happened' and that 'it wasn't fun anymore.'

Brits looking to jet off in the coming weeks have faced long queues for passport appointments, with travellers concerned that they will miss out on their holidays. Many have travelled hours to passport offices - of which there are just seven in the UK - only to receive no update on their application.

Cleo Smith – whose kidnapping for 18 days last year sparked a worldwide media frenzy – has revealed the lie her abductor used to coax her out of the family's tent at a campsite.Ellie Smith said her four-year-old daughter was told her babysitter was sick before she was abducted from the Blowholes campsite near Carnarvon in Western Australia, on October 16.The youngster, according to her mum, remembers 'why' she was taken by 36-year-old Terrence Darrell Kelly."She tells us that she was taken because her baby sister was sick," Ms Smith told 60 Minutes on Sunday."And so she needed to be taken away from us so that we could help her baby sister."Ms Smith claims Kelly unzipped the side of the tent where she and her partner Mr Gliddon had been sleeping on the night Cleo was abducted, before locating her in the other side."Obviously he didn't know where he was," Ms Smith said. "He didn't know what side of the tent she was in.""He must have looked at ours and realised she's not in this side … and then gone to the other side and that's where she was."Cleo was found almost three weeks later when detectives forced their way into a property 7km from Cleo's family home and found her playing with toys.Kelly has since pleaded guilty to her abduction."As a parent, you want to ...

The man responsible for 4-year-old Cleo Smith’s 18-day disappearance in Australia last year has pleaded guilty to abducting her from a campsite in October.

Cleo Smith has reportedly told investigators a woman "brushed her hair and dressed her" while she was allegedly held captive.The bombshell statement has suggested that there could be an unknown female accomplice Suspect Darrell Kelly, 36, has been charged with kidnapping Cleo.Cleo was found at a home in Carnarvon, western Australia last week after 18 days of desperate searches.She told the officers who found her: "My name is Cleo."The brave tot's mum Ellie Smith was distraught to wake up alone in the tent they shared at the Blowholes camping ground on October 16, with Cleo nowhere to be found.After days of desperate searches, cops became increasingly concerned for the four-year-old's safety.Police feared she had been taken because she

four-year-old girl who was found after being abducted for 18 days, has been seen for the first time, safely in her mother's arms.She was spotted smiling and holding a pink balloon as her mum Ellie Smith carried her out of their home in Carnarvon, Australia. Cleo had vanished from a family campsite at Blowholes park some 100 km (62 miles) away from where she was found.

toddler has gone missing in Australia, prompting a nationwide missing person search similar to the one for Madeleine McCann.Cleo Smith, 4, was reportedly 'snatched out of her tent' while asleep at the Blowholes campsite in western Australia, The Sun reported.She was last seen by her parents in the early hours of Saturday morning, with her mum saying the "very, very unusual" disappearance has traumatised the family.They spoke to her at 1.30am, but when mum Ellie Smith woke up again at 6am she was gone.Ellie posted a plea for help on social media after a day without her daughter.Ms Smith wrote: "It’s been over 24 hours since I last seen the sparkle in my little girl’s eyes!"Please help me find her."Authorities across Australia are looking for

Radford, 18, part of the UK's biggest family, has revealed how she was sent cruel messages by trolls hoping her unborn baby daughter would die.The pregnant teen, one of 22 children of Noel and Sue Radford, is due to give birth to her daughter Ophelia next month.But the young woman from Morecambe, Lancashire, said vile trolls had targeted her on her personal number.An account using the fake name Ellie Smith taunted that the mum-to-be was too young to have a child.The horrific message said: "Hi, too young to have a baby at 18. Hi, hope your baby dies."A devastated Millie shared the hurtful message on her Instagram story, MirrorOnline reports."Love nice texts like these from random strangers that lie about who they are," she fumed.