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Passengers on a Manchester-bound flight have described how two men were removed from the plane because other travellers thought they were speaking Arabic. Heath Schofield, a passenger on the flight from Malaga, described it as being a "bit like Chinese whispers". Monarch Airlines said passengers had demanded the men were removed because they were acting suspiciously. Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood said it was disgraceful the pair seemed to have been judged on their skin colour. The men - reported to be of Asian or Middle Eastern appearance - were taken from Wednesday's flight ZB 613 and questioned but were allowed...

Charges expected within days over airline 'terror plot' By Sean Rayment, Security Correspondent (Filed: 20/08/2006) Terrorism charges against the suspects allegedly involved in a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners are "imminent", The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. The police are "hugely optimistic" that they will be able to bring charges against many of the suspects in the very near future, according to security sources. Police explore a section of woods where a cache of liquid explosive is believed to have been found It is also thought that anti-terrorist officers have found the liquid explosive which police believe was intended to...

Report: Manchester United to show Ronaldo the door, Rooney irate at teammate's role in sending off LONDON – Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, criticized for his role in Wayne Rooney's sending off at the World Cup, won't be back at Manchester United and can expect payback from the star England striker in the future, a British newspaper said. Quoting an unnamed source, The Sun reported Monday that Rooney threatened to “split him in two” when the two next meet. Ronaldo may be wearing a different uniform when that happens. The British tabloid says United will show Ronaldo the door “because of...

EAST HARTFORD -- A Manchester Board of Education member is facing criminal charges, including driving under the influence and resisting officers, after his arrest outside the Venus Lounge, an East Hartford strip bar known for prostitution and drug activity, police said. John M. Rowe, a Democrat elected in November to a three-year term, refused to submit to sobriety tests and threatened recrimination to the officers during his June 2 arrest, police said. Rowe, 41, of 31 Gerard St., Manchester, was so inebriated that an officer had to hold him up to keep him from falling over during his arrest and...

MANCHESTER, N.H. --Before this week, Jim Hourihan of Liverpool, England, had never heard of Manchester, N.H. But thanks to a mix-up, he ended up there this week while trying to fly to another Manchester -- the one on the other side of the Atlantic.

Seventh Trumpet Mass on the Feast of Corpus Christi June 18th -3pm - Veterans Park, Manchester, NH Each month over one thousand people have gathered for the Seventh Trumpet Mass for priestly vocations at St. Joseph Cathedral. We will celebrate the next Mass on June 18th the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, at an outdoor Mass followed by a Eucharistic Procession. This is an unbelievable opportunity for Catholics to come together to publicly profess their faith in the true presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and to pray for vocations to the priesthood!...

AT LEAST 400 Al-Qaeda terrorist suspects — double the previous estimates — are at large in Britain, according to police and MI5. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, director-general of MI5, has said the figure could be as high as 600 if all those thought to have returned from combat training in camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere are included. The new assessment — effectively a “terror audit” of Britain — was confirmed this weekend by one of Britain’s most senior police officers, who warned that shortages of trained surveillance teams were undermining attempts to monitor all the suspects. “With about 400...

Love it or hate it, the Queen City's other name has stuck. We're smack in the middle of New Hampshire's largest city, where half-naked boys are killing a scorching afternoon on the dirty concrete slopes of the local skate park. Here, down the street from the city's old baseball stadium, a Memorial High School freshman smears a cracked paintball on the ground while, nearby, two Central High School teens flirt beside a graffiti-covered wall. The kids here have been living in Manchester all their lives, but not one of them ever calls it that. Because these days, when you're a...

I would like to express my sadness at the death of my heroes that I had the good fortune to meet only a couple of years ago. This man had defenders, grown men and women gasping in awe at his skill, talent and good looks as he dazzled defenders and others who watched him apply his trade down the years. When I met him at Borders books during a signing of his book "Blessed" I told him that this was one of the happiest days of my life indeed it was only beaten by getting married and the birth of...

Sep 23, 2005 — LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a man under the terrorism act at Manchester airport on Friday morning after a struggle and were investigating a suspect package. "Police attempted to arrest the man who struggled with officers. A Taser gun was then used to detain the man," a spokeswoman for Manchester police said. An army bomb disposal unit was investigating a suspect package that was found and parts of terminals One and Two were closed, she said. Britain has been on high alert for more attacks ever since four suicide bombers blew themselves up on the...

MANCHESTER, Conn. -- This mistake was carved in stone, after a war monument in Manchester had 'Afghanistan' misspelled. It was missing an 'H." A new monument is being carved and is scheduled to be dedicated on Veterans Day on Nov. 11. An owner of Manchester Monument Company said that he will replace the stone for free even though his company didn't provide the monument. He said that he misspelled the word in a rough draft of the stone he sketched, but said he's not taking responsibility for the error because his company did not get the contract. The company that...

UNQUESTIONABLY, Alexander Hamilton was the most prescient of the Founding Fathers. While Adams mistrusted banks, and Jefferson and Madison conceptualized America as a nation of yeoman farmers, Hamilton embraced finance and industry. But Hamilton got it completely wrong when he predicted in Federalist No. 78 that the judiciary would be the “least dangerous” branch of government. With every new decision it issues, the U.S. Supreme Court looks less and less like a court of law and more and more like a supreme legislature. Its recent decision declaring the death penalty for minors unconstitutional — like its decisions on abortion, race,...

After last nights debate, President Bush was campaigning in Allentown Pennsylvania and later in Manchester N.H. and pointed out the many contradicting and false statements that passed through the heavily lipstick covered lips of his opponent in last nights debate ENJOY YOUR VISIT TO SANITY ISLAN

LONDON (AFP) - Security at Britain's third largest airport in the northern city of Manchester has been highlighted as woefully inadequate by a BBC documentary to be screened on Tuesday. An undercover reporter posing as a security officer at Manchester Airport witnessed colleagues knowingly using faulty metal detectors and fiddling bag search figures, the documentary claimed. The programme follows undercover journalist Michelle Cox, who worked at the airport for 10 weeks. The BBC said Cox was encouraged to flout strict Department for Transport rules on the number of passengers' bags to be searched. On one occasion, out of around 1,000...

UK police today launched a crackdown on the sale of illegal weapons over the Internet. Raids began in London, with searches of 18 addresses. More than 20 illegal weapons have been seized in Operation Bembridge already, including 17 guns, a tear gas canister and four air rifles. In addition, officers collected nine guns designed to fire blanks, but capable of being converted to fire live ammunition. So far, 11 men have been arrested. More raids are planned throughout the UK as the police target over 200 people suspected of buying the prohibited weapons from sources on the Net. Alan Green,...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Historian William Manchester, who brought a novelist's flair to his stirring biographies of such 20th century giants as Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy, died of cancer Tuesday at 82. Manchester wrote 18 books, including two novels, but was best known in recent years for his magisterial, multivolume biography of Churchill, "The Last Lion." Two strokes prevented Manchester from completing the much-anticipated third volume, covering most of the World War II years. Just last month, Paul Reid, a feature writer at The Palm Beach Post, was chosen to help finish the book. "He wrote...

<p>I did not body-slam a protestor at a Dean rally in Manchester as Vincent Morris wrote ("Al Franken Knocks Down Dean Heckler," Jan. 27). Mr. Morris made no attempt to reach me before publishing his story.</p> <p>His description, "Franken emerged from the crowd and charged one male protester, grabbing him with a bear hug from behind and slamming him onto the floor," is a complete fairy tale.</p>

American sports entrepreneur Malcolm Glazer has increased his shareholding in Manchester United to nearly 10%, the UK Premier League club said. Mr Glazer owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Florida-based winners of the Super Bowl American football championship. Man Utd said Mr Glazer has raised his shareholding to 9.66%. It is the second time in a fortnight Mr Glazer has bought more Man Utd shares - earlier this month he raised his stake from 5.9% to 8.94%. Takeover talk Rumours of a takeover have swirled round Man Utd in recent weeks, as several sporting entrepreneurs have increased their shareholdings. Takeover...

June 11 at 6 pm Wayne LaPierre will do a book signing at Borders Bookstore Manchester CT.

MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE FREEPERS SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Here's the highlights of today's counter protest at Veteran's Park, in Manchester, New Hampshire. This is the first freeper rally I organized, but it sure won't be the last! Fun !! :) A fine time was had by all freepers at today's anti-America, anti-Bush peace-nik rally. On next to no notice we had well over a dozen folks show up. We were shown in a positive light on the 6 pm news on channel 9, WMUR television, and I suspect we will be in the Sunday Manchester Union Leader newspaper as well. Many...