themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--Doctor warns parents of deadly magnetic ball craze which left four young children needing surgery

A doctor has warned parents of a deadly magnetic ball craze sweeping Manchester which has left at least four children needing surgery .
The trend involves youngsters placing small magnetic balls in their mouth to mimic face piercings - unaware of the risks if they are swallowed .
A letter from a Stockport doctor has been circulated around primary schools in the area , urging parents not to buy the balls for their children .
It warns parents that if the 'highly magnetic ' balls are swallowed they can cause 'severe damage ' to the digestive system and bowel .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ children in the Stockport area have required abdominal surgery following the craze .
The magnetic balls have already been made illegal in some countries due to the potentially fatal conseuqences .
In 2019 , a six-year-old girl suffered a perforated bowel after she accidentally swallowed a magnetic ball bearing .
Libbie Walker needed major surgery and was left with a seven-inch scar which runs from her belly button to her hip .
In the letter , the doctor said : `` I would like to highlight the dangers of these highly magnetic balls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3-5mm ) balls are widely available to buy in the UK and are sold as a 'creative toy . '
`` I can not emphasise how dangerous these can be if swallowed .
These balls have already been banned in other countries because of their risk to children .
`` You may wonder why a child would swallow these or you may think `` my child would n't swallow them '' but I plead with you to not take the risk .
`` Apparently , some children have been creating a larger ball @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them in their mouth , they then place other balls on the outside of their face .
`` They then use their tongue to move the larger ball in their mouth to make the balls on their face move , which understandably kids find amusing .
`` However , some of the individual balls in their mouth can come away and be accidentally swallowed .
`` The balls are highly magnetic and when swallowed can cause severe damage to the digestive tract .
`` As the balls move through the bowel they can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the bowel .
`` The pressure applied to the bowel tissue lying between the two magnets is so strong is causes a perforation in the bowel . ''
In 2018 , a 12-year-old boy had to have part of his bowel removed after swallowing one of the magnetic balls .
Freddie Webster , was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary , after a 3mm ripped a hole in the wall of his stomach .
The doctor added : `` This is extremely serious and can be fatal if not identified and promptly fixed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been a case locally in which a young child needed abdominal surgery and within Stockport I am aware of at least another three cases .
`` Please do not buy these for your children and if you already have them consider removing them . ''
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A doctor has warned parents of a deadly magnetic ball craze sweeping Manchester which has left at least four children needing surgery.
The trend involves youngsters placing small magnetic balls in their mouth to mimic face piercings - unaware of the risks if they are swallowed.
A letter from a Stockport doctor has been circulated around primary schools in the area, urging parents not to buy the balls for their children.
It warns parents that if the 'highly magnetic' balls are swallowed they can cause 'severe damage' to the digestive system and bowel.
It is reported that at least four children in the Stockport area have required abdominal surgery following the craze.
The magnetic balls have already been made illegal in some countries due to the potentially fatal conseuqences.
In 2019, a six-year-old girl suffered a perforated bowel after she accidentally swallowed a magnetic ball bearing.
Libbie Walker needed major surgery and was left with a seven-inch scar which runs from her belly button to her hip.
(Image: MEN Media)
In the letter, the doctor said: "I would like to highlight the dangers of these highly magnetic balls.
"These very small (usually 3-5mm) balls are widely available to buy in the UK and are sold as a 'creative toy.'
"I cannot emphasise how dangerous these can be if swallowed. These balls have already been banned in other countries because of their risk to children.
"You may wonder why a child would swallow these or you may think "my child wouldn't swallow them" but I plead with you to not take the risk.
"Apparently, some children have been creating a larger ball using numerous small individual balls and putting them in their mouth, they then place other balls on the outside of their face.
"They then use their tongue to move the larger ball in their mouth to make the balls on their face move, which understandably kids find amusing.
"However, some of the individual balls in their mouth can come away and be accidentally swallowed.
"The balls are highly magnetic and when swallowed can cause severe damage to the digestive tract.
"As the balls move through the bowel they can magnetise together even when in different parts of the bowel.
"The pressure applied to the bowel tissue lying between the two magnets is so strong is causes a perforation in the bowel."
(Image: MEN Media)
In 2018, a 12-year-old boy had to have part of his bowel removed after swallowing one of the magnetic balls.
Freddie Webster, was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary, after a 3mm ripped a hole in the wall of his stomach.
The doctor added: "This is extremely serious and can be fatal if not identified and promptly fixed by abdominal surgery.
"There has been a case locally in which a young child needed abdominal surgery and within Stockport I am aware of at least another three cases.
"Please do not buy these for your children and if you already have them consider removing them."
We have a dedicated Facebook page bringing you all the latest news, events and community news from across south Manchester. To keep up to date with all that is happening, and to join in the discussion, follow the page here. Here's the link to the M.E.N's main Facebook page where we share our latest stories.


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--The Manchester United game that history forgot but Tranmere didn't

The history books do n't remember Manchester United 's friendly with Tranmere in December 1982 , but it 's never been forgotten on the Wirral .
Officially , United and Sunday 's FA Cup opponents Tranmere have only met once , a 5-0 League Cup win at Old Trafford in 1976 .
But as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer prepares his side to face Tranmere this weekend , they will receive a warm welcome at Prenton Park - all because of that friendly meeting 37 years ago that provided crucial funds for Rovers in their hour of need .
`` It was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finances were in a poor state which helped Tranmere massively , '' Rovers associate director Lee McAteer told MEN Sport .
`` In that regard we 've got some things to be thankful for to Manchester United .
`` As a Tranmere fan it 's definitely something to be thankful for .
I 'll certainly be saying something to anyone from Manchester United about that on Sunday . ''
The programme from that unofficial fixture in 1982 expands on just how important the gesture of a friendly proved to be to Tranmere .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that the truly great Manchester United wanted to help - and will help - a club with its own historic background , who were - and still are - in serious financial trouble , '' wrote Tranmere 's then-general manager Jack Butterfield .
`` For that admirable gesture , everyone here is full of gratitude to chief executive Martin Edwards , his fellow directors , to Ron Atkinson , his staff and players . ''
That gratitude has not gone away some three decades later , with the Tranmere Rovers Trust tweeting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the gesture from United all those years ago .
Nowadays , Tranmere are in a better financial situation , but Sunday 's cup clash with United is still a world away from a rocky few years at Prenton Park .
Two successive relegations from League One in 2013/14 and then League Two in 2014/15 started a three-year exile from the Football League .
Now , after two promotions in a row following a rebuilding job by chairman and vice-chair Mark and Nicola Palios , Tranmere are back in the third tier and are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` It 's magificent , '' McAteer said .
`` It goes without saying , Manchester United are an absolutely massive football club and it 's a wonderful occasion .
`` It shows you how far the club has come in such a short space of time , to the point where two years ago in January 2018 we were facing Maidenhead United , and now we 're playing Manchester United .
It 's a wonderful time for the football club . ''
The game is of particular significance to lifelong Tranmere fan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who will be sleeve sponsors for Rovers on Sunday .
`` As a fan I 'm so thankful to what Mark and Nicola Palios have done for Tranmere and for me to be involved with the club is pinch yourself territory , '' he said .
`` To have Man United who play five minutes from my AmeriCamp offices take on Tranmere in the FA Cup is what makes it all so magical . ''
With a short turnaround between Tranmere 's third round replay win against Watford on Thursday and Sunday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over the future of the FA Cup replays has risen again in sections of the media .
After the third round draw against Wolves , Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suggested United would prefer not to have another game in the fixture schedule to navigate .
The view from Tranmere , though , is clear , with the club set to receive a financial boost from their cup run .
Without replays , that would n't be possible .
`` Ultimately , there will be more finances coming into the club which is obviously an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` Of course our main priority is League One .
But it 's a wonderful bonus getting past the third round of the cup .
`` Our vice-chairman Nicola Palios tweeted Gary Lineker after his criticism of FA Cup replays which went viral .
For us of course , it should be about the 'magic of the FA Cup ' and the underdog against the hot favourites and that 's what brings the magic of the cup .
`` We 've got to protect the football pyramid and by doing that replays are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Premier League .
For me replays should n't be scrapped .
If you want to be a successful team , you 've got to play lots of fixtures , so for me they should n't be scrapped . ''
So while the circumstances in Sunday 's FA Cup tie may be wildly different to the friendly 37 years ago , the boost United can provide to lower league clubs - on and off the pitch - remain as important as they ever did .
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The history books don't remember Manchester United's friendly with Tranmere in December 1982, but it's never been forgotten on the Wirral.
Officially, United and Sunday's FA Cup opponents Tranmere have only met once, a 5-0 League Cup win at Old Trafford in 1976.
But as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer prepares his side to face Tranmere this weekend, they will receive a warm welcome at Prenton Park - all because of that friendly meeting 37 years ago that provided crucial funds for Rovers in their hour of need.
"It was a friendly with Manchester United when the finances were in a poor state which helped Tranmere massively," Rovers associate director Lee McAteer told MEN Sport. "In that regard we've got some things to be thankful for to Manchester United.
"As a Tranmere fan it's definitely something to be thankful for. I'll certainly be saying something to anyone from Manchester United about that on Sunday."
The programme from that unofficial fixture in 1982 expands on just how important the gesture of a friendly proved to be to Tranmere.
"The most important thing of all is that the truly great Manchester United wanted to help - and will help - a club with its own historic background, who were - and still are - in serious financial trouble," wrote Tranmere's then-general manager Jack Butterfield.
"For that admirable gesture, everyone here is full of gratitude to chief executive Martin Edwards, his fellow directors, to Ron Atkinson, his staff and players."
That gratitude has not gone away some three decades later, with the Tranmere Rovers Trust tweeting on Friday that they will never forget the gesture from United all those years ago.
Nowadays, Tranmere are in a better financial situation, but Sunday's cup clash with United is still a world away from a rocky few years at Prenton Park.
Two successive relegations from League One in 2013/14 and then League Two in 2014/15 started a three-year exile from the Football League. Now, after two promotions in a row following a rebuilding job by chairman and vice-chair Mark and Nicola Palios, Tranmere are back in the third tier and are preparing to welcome United once more.
"It's magificent," McAteer said. "It goes without saying, Manchester United are an absolutely massive football club and it's a wonderful occasion.
"It shows you how far the club has come in such a short space of time, to the point where two years ago in January 2018 we were facing Maidenhead United, and now we're playing Manchester United. It's a wonderful time for the football club."
The game is of particular significance to lifelong Tranmere fan McAteer, co-founder of Salford-based business AmeriCamp, who will be sleeve sponsors for Rovers on Sunday.
"As a fan I'm so thankful to what Mark and Nicola Palios have done for Tranmere and for me to be involved with the club is pinch yourself territory," he said.
"To have Man United who play five minutes from my AmeriCamp offices take on Tranmere in the FA Cup is what makes it all so magical."
With a short turnaround between Tranmere's third round replay win against Watford on Thursday and Sunday's fourth round fixture, the debate over the future of the FA Cup replays has risen again in sections of the media. After the third round draw against Wolves, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suggested United would prefer not to have another game in the fixture schedule to navigate.
The view from Tranmere, though, is clear, with the club set to receive a financial boost from their cup run. Without replays, that wouldn't be possible.
"Ultimately, there will be more finances coming into the club which is obviously an added bonus," McAteer continued.
"Of course our main priority is League One. But it's a wonderful bonus getting past the third round of the cup.
"Our vice-chairman Nicola Palios tweeted Gary Lineker after his criticism of FA Cup replays which went viral. For us of course, it should be about the 'magic of the FA Cup' and the underdog against the hot favourites and that's what brings the magic of the cup.
"We've got to protect the football pyramid and by doing that replays are seriously good revenue streams outside of the Premier League. For me replays shouldn't be scrapped. If you want to be a successful team, you've got to play lots of fixtures, so for me they shouldn't be scrapped."
So while the circumstances in Sunday's FA Cup tie may be wildly different to the friendly 37 years ago, the boost United can provide to lower league clubs - on and off the pitch - remain as important as they ever did.
Try telling Tranmere that the FA Cup is losing it's magic.


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--How Man City should line up vs Fulham in the FA Cup

Man City take on Fulham in the FA Cup on Sunday and it will give Pep Guardiola a chance to rotate his side following a gruelling run of fixtures in January .
Fulham are enjoying a good season following their relegation from the Premier League and are making a case for an instant return , currently sitting in third and playing nice football under Scott Parker .
Yet City will be confident going into the clash having beaten the Cottagers three times last season and not losing to them since 2009 .
Guardiola has a near full squad to choose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Leroy Sane was available for the fixture , although John Stones and Benjamin Mendy missed Tuesday 's victory over Sheffield United due to injury .
Here 's how our panel think City should line up .
It should be all change for City in the FA Cup ahead of bigger tests .
As Guardiola said in his pre-match press conference , any of his available players are capable of getting the right result so it should n't matter too much who starts .
If John Stones is fit , he needs to play @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if City want to get him up to the level where he can start in big matches .
Eric Garcia also deserves to play .
David Silva can come back in after not being needed for Sheffield United , although Bernardo Silva 's energy could be needed alongside him to balance that middle out .
That pushes Phil Foden out to the left , but the youngster is talented enough to be able to cope .
Sergio Aguero gives that extra touch of security up front knowing that he is likely to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do with a break .
The one change that Pep Guardiola hinted at on Friday was Claudio Bravo starting in goal and that is a move that makes sense .
In defence Joao Cancelo can return while this seems a good opportunity to give Angelino a game , given Benjamin Mendy was suffering from muscle fatigue in the week .
Eric Garcia is also due a start , perhaps alongside Nicolas Otamendi .
Ilkay Gundogan did n't get off the bench at Bramall Lane so will probably start here , while Phil Foden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ South Yorkshire so are likely to be in the frame for appearances in the FA Cup .
While Gabriel Jesus began in midweek he did miss a penalty and his confidence might be low , so it would be a boost to start him here and give him a chance to improve on a good FA Cup record , with Riyad Mahrez and Bernardo Silva on the flanks .
Playing so soon after a return from injury may be a bit much for Aymeric Laporte , especially if he 's up against Aleksandr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ league opposition will be a good opportunity to continue to improve his fitness and shake of the ring rust ahead of a massive match against Manchester United on Wednesday , even if it 's only for a half .
Meanwhile , Phil Foden and Eric Garcia should get the full game here to again prove what they can do and David Silva should make a return after being left out of the battle at Bramall Lane .
With changes all over the pitch , Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus should both keep their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goals and get their confidence back up after misfiring as of late .

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Man City take on Fulham in the FA Cup on Sunday and it will give Pep Guardiola a chance to rotate his side following a gruelling run of fixtures in January.
Fulham are enjoying a good season following their relegation from the Premier League and are making a case for an instant return, currently sitting in third and playing nice football under Scott Parker.
Yet City will be confident going into the clash having beaten the Cottagers three times last season and not losing to them since 2009.
Guardiola has a near full squad to choose from after saying that everyone aside from Leroy Sane was available for the fixture, although John Stones and Benjamin Mendy missed Tuesday's victory over Sheffield United due to injury.
Here's how our panel think City should line up.
Simon Bajkowski
It should be all change for City in the FA Cup ahead of bigger tests. As Guardiola said in his pre-match press conference, any of his available players are capable of getting the right result so it shouldn't matter too much who starts.
If John Stones is fit, he needs to play. It's as simple as that if City want to get him up to the level where he can start in big matches. Eric Garcia also deserves to play.
David Silva can come back in after not being needed for Sheffield United, although Bernardo Silva's energy could be needed alongside him to balance that middle out.
That pushes Phil Foden out to the left, but the youngster is talented enough to be able to cope.
Sergio Aguero gives that extra touch of security up front knowing that he is likely to get a goal, while Raheem Sterling could do with a break.
Tyrone Marshall
The one change that Pep Guardiola hinted at on Friday was Claudio Bravo starting in goal and that is a move that makes sense. In defence Joao Cancelo can return while this seems a good opportunity to give Angelino a game, given Benjamin Mendy was suffering from muscle fatigue in the week. Eric Garcia is also due a start, perhaps alongside Nicolas Otamendi.
Ilkay Gundogan didn't get off the bench at Bramall Lane so will probably start here, while Phil Foden and David Silva didn't start in South Yorkshire so are likely to be in the frame for appearances in the FA Cup.
While Gabriel Jesus began in midweek he did miss a penalty and his confidence might be low, so it would be a boost to start him here and give him a chance to improve on a good FA Cup record, with Riyad Mahrez and Bernardo Silva on the flanks.
Dan Murphy
Playing so soon after a return from injury may be a bit much for Aymeric Laporte, especially if he's up against Aleksandr Mitrovic, but a game against lower league opposition will be a good opportunity to continue to improve his fitness and shake of the ring rust ahead of a massive match against Manchester United on Wednesday, even if it's only for a half.
Meanwhile, Phil Foden and Eric Garcia should get the full game here to again prove what they can do and David Silva should make a return after being left out of the battle at Bramall Lane.
With changes all over the pitch, Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus should both keep their places and can hopefully get among the goals and get their confidence back up after misfiring as of late.


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--The quirkiest houses on the market in Greater Manchester

A three-bed semi here , a two-up two-down terrace there , a big modern five-bed somewhere else .
Sometimes the housing market can feel a little bit repetitive , but there are a few houses on the market in Greater Manchester at the minute that will make you take a second look .
Character properties do tend to come with a high price tag , and these are no exception - you 'll have to dig deep to afford a Grade II-listed church conversion .
Still , it does n't hurt to have a nosey .
From repurposed water towers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with no straight external walls , here are a few of the quirkiest homes on the market in our region .
This beautiful church in Bowdon was converted a few short years ago by Manchester-based architects Ollier Smurthwaite , fitting the huge space with residential 'pods ' .
They 're sturdier than that would suggest though , flanked on one side by original sandstone and ornate stained glass windows .
This particular three bedroom pad in the Trinity development sprawls over four floors , with modern accommodation fitted into the historical building .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be faced with that window .
Wow .
It 's on the market for £750,000 , marketed by Watersons in Hale - view more here .
Does anyone know where you can acquire a curved sofa , or a semi-circular bookcase ?
You 're going to need them if you buy this unusual home in Bury , which is almost completely circular .
Quite literally named The Round House , the cylindrical building is located Affetside and was previously a balancing tank supplying water to the village .
Now , it 's a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across the fields around it - standing in the kitchen , which juts out into a field , you can see the lambs mere feet away .
It 's on the market for £375,000 with Alexandra West in Bolton - see more here .
The floorplan of this Bury townhouse is slightly ridiculous , reflective of its lanky structure .
Spread over five floors - though with only one room per floor on the upper levels - it 's part of the popular Tower Court development .
A star feature of the house @ @ @ @ @ @ @ panoramic views across the surrounding countryside .
One thing 's for sure , you would n't want to get halfway out the door and realise you 'd left your phone up in the bedroom .
JonSimon in Bury are marketing this house for £385,000 - view it here .
Another church conversion , this time into two-bedroom duplex .
With views over Alexandra park , the Grade-II listed former church building is now home to modern , open-plan accommodation .
This particular flat is arguably the best of the bunch , positioned in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seven large stained glass windows .
There 's an open-plan kitchen , lounge and dining room on the ground floor , and two bedrooms ( with balconies ) and two bathrooms upstairs .
It 's marketed by Purplebricks for £300,000 - view it here .
Slightly further afield but no less remarkable is this tower house in Knutsford .
The Grade II-listed property is one of many in the town inspired by 19th century designer Richard Harding-Watt , and it 's as characterful inside as it is out .
Five bedrooms are spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the living accommodation on the lower levels .
There 's also a south-facing courtyard , and views for miles from the upper levels .
It 's marketing by Savills in Knutsford for £675,000 - see more here .

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A three-bed semi here, a two-up two-down terrace there, a big modern five-bed somewhere else.
Sometimes the housing market can feel a little bit repetitive, but there are a few houses on the market in Greater Manchester at the minute that will make you take a second look.
Character properties do tend to come with a high price tag, and these are no exception - you'll have to dig deep to afford a Grade II-listed church conversion.
Still, it doesn't hurt to have a nosey.
From repurposed water towers with bonkers floor plans, to houses with no straight external walls, here are a few of the quirkiest homes on the market in our region.
An Altrincham church
(Image: Watersons, Hale)
This beautiful church in Bowdon was converted a few short years ago by Manchester-based architects Ollier Smurthwaite, fitting the huge space with residential 'pods'.
They're sturdier than that would suggest though, flanked on one side by original sandstone and ornate stained glass windows.
This particular three bedroom pad in the Trinity development sprawls over four floors, with modern accommodation fitted into the historical building.
Just imagine opening your bedroom door to be faced with that window. Wow.
It's on the market for £750,000, marketed by Watersons in Hale - view more here.
The Bury round house
(Image: Rightmove / Alexandra West, Bolton)
Does anyone know where you can acquire a curved sofa, or a semi-circular bookcase?
You're going to need them if you buy this unusual home in Bury, which is almost completely circular.
Quite literally named The Round House, the cylindrical building is located Affetside and was previously a balancing tank supplying water to the village.
Now, it's a modern three bedroom home with 360-degree views across the fields around it - standing in the kitchen, which juts out into a field, you can see the lambs mere feet away.
It's on the market for £375,000 with Alexandra West in Bolton - see more here.
Basically a turret in Bury
(Image: Rightmove / JonSimon, Bury)
The floorplan of this Bury townhouse is slightly ridiculous, reflective of its lanky structure.
Spread over five floors - though with only one room per floor on the upper levels - it's part of the popular Tower Court development.
A star feature of the house is the roof terrace, which has panoramic views across the surrounding countryside.
One thing's for sure, you wouldn't want to get halfway out the door and realise you'd left your phone up in the bedroom.
JonSimon in Bury are marketing this house for £385,000 - view it here.
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Another church, in Whalley Range
(Image: Rightmove / Purplebricks)
Another church conversion, this time into two-bedroom duplex.
With views over Alexandra park, the Grade-II listed former church building is now home to modern, open-plan accommodation.
This particular flat is arguably the best of the bunch, positioned in the former rounded chancel - and has seven large stained glass windows.
There's an open-plan kitchen, lounge and dining room on the ground floor, and two bedrooms (with balconies) and two bathrooms upstairs.
It's marketed by Purplebricks for £300,000 - view it here.
A tower house in Knutsford
(Image: Savills, Knutsford)
Slightly further afield but no less remarkable is this tower house in Knutsford.
The Grade II-listed property is one of many in the town inspired by 19th century designer Richard Harding-Watt, and it's as characterful inside as it is out.
Five bedrooms are spread over six floors, with the majority of the living accommodation on the lower levels.
There's also a south-facing courtyard, and views for miles from the upper levels.
It's marketing by Savills in Knutsford for £675,000 - see more here.


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--The Stranger: The new Netflix thriller filmed across Greater Manchester

The trailer for hotly anticipated Netflix thriller The Stranger has dropped ahead of its release on Thursday .
The eight-part series , based on Harlan Coben ’ s mystery thriller novel of the same name , features an all-star cast including The Hobbit ’ s Richard Armitage in the lead role of Adam Price .
The series follows Adam , whose idyllic life falls apart when a chance meeting with a mysterious woman entangles him in a conspiracy .
The new drama reunites Coben with Rochdale-born executive producer Nicola Shindler and lead writer and executive producer Danny Brocklehurst , from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John-Kamen as the unnamed stranger , Siobhan Finneran as DS Johanna Griffin , Jennifer Saunders , who plays Johanna ’ s best friend Heidi , and Kadiff Kirwan as DC Wesley Ross .
A number of scenes from the series were filmed across Greater Manchester including Ancoats , St Peter ’ s Square , Whalley Range , as well as various locations in Eccles , Bolton and Stockport .
The two-minute teaser clip introduces lawyer Adam and his seemingly idyllic life with two sons and soulmate wife Corinne .
But all this comes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sits next to him one day and informs him that his wife once faked a pregnancy .
The stranger says : “ She lied , Adam .
Corinne made it up , she was never pregnant .
“ One more thing .
If I were you , I ’ d run DNA checks on your two boys.
” As the stranger ’ s words eat away at Adam , he begins to investigate his wife , and to his horror , his greatest fears are realised .
When Adam confronts Corinne with evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she flees - leaving only a text message .
It says : “ Maybe we need some time apart .
You take care of the kids .
“ Do n't try and contact me .
It will be ok. As well as established actors , Harlan - who also worked on Netflix series Safe , which starred Dexter ’ s Michael C. Hall - brought in local talent for the series , including Leah Baskaran , Ross Grant , Misha Ade , Anthony Bacon and Anna Swan .
Harlan told the M.E.N .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a twist , wait until you watch The Stranger .
That is one thing I pride myself on .
There are a lot of twists and turns.
” Harlan Coben ’ s The Stranger launches on Netflix on 30 January 2020 .
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The trailer for hotly anticipated Netflix thriller The Stranger has dropped ahead of its release on Thursday.
The eight-part series, based on Harlan Coben’s mystery thriller novel of the same name, features an all-star cast including The Hobbit’s Richard Armitage in the lead role of Adam Price.
The series follows Adam, whose idyllic life falls apart when a chance meeting with a mysterious woman entangles him in a conspiracy.
The new drama reunites Coben with Rochdale-born executive producer Nicola Shindler and lead writer and executive producer Danny Brocklehurst, from Hyde.
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Other cast members include Hannah John-Kamen as the unnamed stranger, Siobhan Finneran as DS Johanna Griffin, Jennifer Saunders, who plays Johanna’s best friend Heidi, and Kadiff Kirwan as DC Wesley Ross.
A number of scenes from the series were filmed across Greater Manchester including Ancoats, St Peter’s Square, Whalley Range, as well as various locations in Eccles, Bolton and Stockport.
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The two-minute teaser clip introduces lawyer Adam and his seemingly idyllic life with two sons and soulmate wife Corinne.
But all this comes to a head as a mysterious woman sits next to him one day and informs him that his wife once faked a pregnancy.
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The stranger says: “She lied, Adam. Corinne made it up, she was never pregnant.
“One more thing. If I were you, I’d run DNA checks on your two boys.”
As the stranger’s words eat away at Adam, he begins to investigate his wife, and to his horror, his greatest fears are realised.
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When Adam confronts Corinne with evidence that she lied about the pregnancy, she flees - leaving only a text message.
It says: “Maybe we need some time apart. You take care of the kids.
“Don't try and contact me. It will be ok.
“Just give me a few days... Please.”
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As well as established actors, Harlan - who also worked on Netflix series Safe, which starred Dexter’s Michael C. Hall - brought in local talent for the series, including Leah Baskaran, Ross Grant, Misha Ade, Anthony Bacon and Anna Swan.
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Harlan told the M.E.N.: “If you thought Safe had a twist, wait until you watch The Stranger. That is one thing I pride myself on. There are a lot of twists and turns.”
Harlan Coben’s The Stranger launches on Netflix on 30 January 2020.
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themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--The mum who changed her diet to save her son's life

A mum from Sale changed her life so she could save her son 's .
Anne Cooney went on a Slimming World weight loss programme because her son Adam needed a kidney transplant , and she wanted to give him hers - and make sure it was in the best possible condition .
The 61-year-old dropped two dress sizes in five months in preparation for the procedure .
Having eaten ' a lot of biscuits ' , she cut them 'right back ' to achieve her weight goals , she said .
Adam , 38 , was diagnosed with rare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chronic kidney disease - in 2015 .
Over the next few years his kidney function began to decline .
He was previously fit and active but began feeling really 'tired and worn out ' .
`` It 's really depressing and gets you down '' , Adam said .
The scientist - who loved walking and mountain biking - was no longer able to do the sports that he loved .
`` He 's a very outdoorsy person .
It was difficult for him to accept that change of lifestyle .
He was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
In the end he had two options - have a kidney transplant or go on dialysis .
According to Kidney Research UK , dialysis can actually reduce quality of life , and it was not an option Adam wanted to consider .
Thankfully , his mum Anne volunteered to donate her kidney , and the pair were a match .
But Adam was torn about what to do .
`` I did n't want my mum to die because of my transplant .
We went to a meeting with a surgeon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go wrong .
`` I thought 'maybe I 'm not going to bother with dialysis or a transplant .
I 've done my thing , I 've had a nice life . '
My initial reaction was to not take it and be very grateful .
I just started weighing up everything and thought I would give ( the transplant ) a shot . ''
For Anne , though , the decision was simple .
The banker said she did n't have 'any second thoughts ' .
`` As a mum you do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make their life easier and it just seemed the right thing to do .
I obviously got apprehensive before the operation .
But never thought of not going ahead . ''
Anne wanted to be as fit and healthy as possible ahead of the operation .
`` I decided I wanted to be in the best place possible so the kidney would be in a better condition for Adam , and so I could recover better from it . ''
She joined Slimming World in May 2018 as a way to lose weight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lost around two stone in five months , going from 12.5 stone to 10.5 stone ahead of the operation .
`` It 's amazing how much easier you find it when you have a focus .
`` The Slimming World group is a great group of people who are there for each other '' she said .
The transplant was successful and Adam has gradually become active and healthy again .
`` It made a huge difference to Adam , he is back doing the sports he loves like mountain biking and walking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hugely grateful .
He said : `` my mum has saved my life .
She saved my life and gave me my life back .
Without dialysis I would have died , with it my life would have been restrictive .
`` I do n't know how to say thank you to her . ''
Adam is cycling from Vietnam to Cambodia in October to raise money for charity Kidneys for Life .

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A mum from Sale changed her life so she could save her son's.
Anne Cooney went on a Slimming World weight loss programme because her son Adam needed a kidney transplant, and she wanted to give him hers - and make sure it was in the best possible condition.
The 61-year-old dropped two dress sizes in five months in preparation for the procedure.
Having eaten 'a lot of biscuits', she cut them 'right back' to achieve her weight goals, she said.
Adam, 38, was diagnosed with rare condition IgA vasculitis, which led to chronic kidney disease - in 2015.
Over the next few years his kidney function began to decline.
He was previously fit and active but began feeling really 'tired and worn out'.
"It's really depressing and gets you down", Adam said.
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The scientist - who loved walking and mountain biking - was no longer able to do the sports that he loved.
"He's a very outdoorsy person. It was difficult for him to accept that change of lifestyle. He was on lots of medication", Anne said.
In the end he had two options - have a kidney transplant or go on dialysis.
According to Kidney Research UK, dialysis can actually reduce quality of life, and it was not an option Adam wanted to consider.
Thankfully, his mum Anne volunteered to donate her kidney, and the pair were a match.
But Adam was torn about what to do.
"I didn't want my mum to die because of my transplant. We went to a meeting with a surgeon, who tells you everything that can go wrong.
"I thought 'maybe I'm not going to bother with dialysis or a transplant. I've done my thing, I've had a nice life.' My initial reaction was to not take it and be very grateful. I just started weighing up everything and thought I would give (the transplant) a shot."
For Anne, though, the decision was simple. The banker said she didn't have 'any second thoughts'.
"As a mum you do what you can for your children to make their life easier and it just seemed the right thing to do. I obviously got apprehensive before the operation. But never thought of not going ahead."
Anne wanted to be as fit and healthy as possible ahead of the operation.
"I decided I wanted to be in the best place possible so the kidney would be in a better condition for Adam, and so I could recover better from it."
She joined Slimming World in May 2018 as a way to lose weight.
(Image: Manchester Evening News)
She stuck to the plan and lost around two stone in five months, going from 12.5 stone to 10.5 stone ahead of the operation.
"It's amazing how much easier you find it when you have a focus.
"The Slimming World group is a great group of people who are there for each other" she said.
The transplant was successful and Adam has gradually become active and healthy again.
(Image: Manchester Evening News)
"It made a huge difference to Adam, he is back doing the sports he loves like mountain biking and walking", Anne said.
Adam is hugely grateful. He said: "my mum has saved my life. She saved my life and gave me my life back. Without dialysis I would have died, with it my life would have been restrictive.
"I don't know how to say thank you to her."
Adam is cycling from Vietnam to Cambodia in October to raise money for charity Kidneys for Life.
To donate, click here.


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--Holocaust Memorial Day: The incredible stories of the Greater Manchester Jews who saw the worst and

Holocaust Memorial Day: The incredible stories of the Greater Manchester Jews who saw the worst and best of humanity

Monday is Holocaust Memorial Day , a day to honour all those who suffered under Nazi persecution , and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz , the largest of the Nazi concentration camps .
This year , a number of Greater Manchester 's Jews were recognised in the New Year Honours list , for the work they have done , and continue to do , to educate others about the horrors of the Holocaust .
From being rescued from a pile of bodies after nine months in Auschwitz , the only survivor of a murdered family , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a sandpit , these Mancunians endured the worst of humanity .
But the rich lives they have lived , their capacity to rebuild and thrive after such horror , and the kindness of the people who helped them survive , also bear witness to the best of us .
All have now been recognised with an MBE or British Empire Medal for their dedication .
These are their remarkable stories .
`` We arrived in the middle of the night to Auschwitz '' Eva Neumann , MBE , was just a child @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , lying on a pile of corpses in a concentration camp .
The teenager had spent nine months in Auschwitz , and as Russian forces advanced on the camp in early 1945 , Eva was taken on a 'death march . '
Despite enduring the freezing conditions in only light clothing and wooden shoes , Eva survived , and ended up at the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp in Germany .
It was here that a Russian medic found her on a mound of bodies , realised she was still alive and took the then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But while she was eventually physically well enough to leave , Eva was left to contend with the knowledge that she was the only surviving member of her family .
A year earlier , upon arriving at Auschwitz , her father had lied to guards and told them Eva was 18 , in order to save her life .
She was spared death and put to work sorting the clothes of everyone who arrived at the camp .
But her mother , father , two younger brothers and grandmother were all murdered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after liberation , but was eventually forced to accept that she would never see them again .
Eva lived with her cousin for a time , before meeting her husband in Switzerland , and moving to Salford , where the mother-of-five still lives .
For decades , she spoke to no one about her experiences at the camp , not even her late husband , who himself had lost his family at Auschwitz .
Eva says that what happened there was so horrendous that she felt no one would ever believe it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ when her grandson asked her to accompany a group of school children on an educational tour of Auschwitz , that Eva finally spoke about it .
`` He 's such a good boy that I could not refuse anything he wanted from me '' , says Eva , who is affectionately known to many as Bobby , a Jewish term for grandmother .
`` You ca n't always cry and moan , you 've got to do for others .
`` That 's my principle , if you help others , you help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aged 90 .
Eva grew up in a small border village in what was then Czechoslovakia .
`` My father was a businessman .
I had two little brothers and life was very simple , and very nice , '' she said .
`` The children were going to school and their hats were thrown into the river , lots of little troubles started .
`` I realised I was n't so worried about it , we had parents , they did n't let us worry , so I was n't conscious of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1944 , April , on a Sunday morning , two Hungarians and two Germans came and told us to pack what we could carry .
`` I was n't worried .
My parents were there , my father said 'do n't worry ' .
I never cried .
`` They took us to the synagogue where they collected all the Jews .
`` Then they took us to the next town and collected all the Jews .
Then put us in a huge factory , where we stayed for weeks .
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collected , then one morning they announced we were leaving .
`` We were happy because we did n't know where we were going .
`` They put us in wagons , we had no idea if it was day or night , there was a tiny window .
`` We arrived in the middle of the night to Auschwitz .
`` A fellow came up to my father and asked him how old I was , he said 15 and he said 'do n't say 15 , say she 's 18 ' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` My mother was sent by ( Josef ) Mengele to the right and I was on the left .
I started crying 'mummy , mummy ' and she said 'why are you making a noise ?
You will be shot in a minute . '
`` I went from there to the bath , was shaved and tattooed .
We stood outside and it was bitterly cold and then they took us to the barracks .
`` I worked there sorting all the clothes that came in with people , putting them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` That 's what we did .
Starving , hungry , freezing cold . ''
Eva frequently heard the chilling sounds of others in the camp being taken to their deaths in the gas chambers .
`` I know my mother and my two brothers went in .
Then months later my father went in .
Then my grandmother , '' she added .
`` One day they came in , the Russians were already coming , the Germans said 'we are leaving , anyone who is ill and ca n't walk can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does n't want to go can stay ' .
`` When they said 'leave Auschwitz ' , I grabbed it , but I should n't have , because the people who stayed were liberated and they went home , and it was fantastic , and I still had months , walking to Germany .
`` They called it the death march .
There was snow .
Not enough clothes , wooden shoes , no food , no drink .
Just occasionally we went into farms and slept in hay .
`` All the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we tripped and tripped . ''
At Neustadt-Glewe , the living were forced to remove the bodies of those who had died , and place them outside .
An exhausted Eva ended up among the dead .
`` I was one of the last to be put on the pile by my friend .
`` A doctor lifted me up and he said I was still alive and he took me from the camp . ''
Through her work with the Jewish charity Aish , Eva has accompanied many groups of children on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few years .
She knows that by meeting her , young people will gain a far greater understanding of what happened than they ever could from any book or film .
`` If they understand what happened there , if they understand it could happen to anyone , not just Jews , we had a lot of non Jews there , '' added Eva .
`` If you know what can happen , that 's why we work like this .
`` Not to say 'poor Eva that 's been to Auschwitz ' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not just the kids .
`` It 's so horrendous , when I think about , do we really believe it ?
Because when we came back nobody spoke , and I know why .
`` Nobody believed me , nobody believed any of us .
`` What they did is something so horrendous that it 's not believable .
If you took a book and started reading , you 'd throw the book away .
`` Maybe those kids I took , they wo n't read that book , or see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ talk enough , something might make them think . ''
`` Suicide saved nine of our family '' In 1938 , Dr Peter Kurer BEM was six-years-old and living with his older brother , and the mother and father he adored , in Vienna .
But when Austria was annexed , it was n't long before the SS showed up at the family 's door , looking for his dentist father .
Realising the urgent need to leave the country , Peter 's parents turned to Quakers in Manchester for help .
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all their lives , and ushered in the start of Peter 's lifelong admiration and profound respect for the Quaker faith .
`` I remember Hitler coming in .
Hitler was very keen on employing people .
Every house had swastika flags from the roof to the floor , '' says Peter , who now lives in Stockport .
`` I remember the early days , seeing the planes .
`` A few weeks after that somebody phoned my mother from down the road and said 'watch it , the SS are coming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ father was just about ready to go to his dental place a quarter of a mile away and my mother said , 'go back to bed ' .
`` She took a thermometer , put it in warm water , five minutes later , 'bang bang bang ' , it 's the SS .
They want my father .
`` My mother said 'he 's got a very infectious disease , here 's the thermometer ' , and they left him .
`` In Germany they would have taken him if he 'd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Austria , Vienna , they left him . ''
Peter 's parents spoke for an hour , and decided they must leave the country within a week .
Incredibly , it was because of the connections they had made in Manchester with Quakers , following an earlier family tragedy , that they were able to escape .
Years earlier , his mother 's sister had worked for a Vienna textile firm which did business with a firm in Manchester .
Peter 's aunt frequently corresponded with a young man who worked there , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see her .
`` The third time he visited , they got engaged , '' added Peter '' Three months later they got married in a in a civil service in Vienna and she went to live in Manchester .
`` He was a Quaker attendee .
My parents always said he was a very nice fellow .
I still vaguely remember him .
`` After three and a half years of marriage , she committed suicide , from loneliness .
Women did n't work , she was twiddling her thumbs six days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Quaker funeral , which my parents attended .
Suicide saved nine of our family . ''
In order to move to Britain , the family first had to find someone to 'guarantee ' for them , which meant paying the government £50 per person , around £2,500 in today 's money , to increase their chances of getting a visa .
`` My father phoned some Quakers in Manchester , '' added Peter .
`` The Goodwins , who lived in Whalley Range .
They were jewellers in Swan Street in Manchester .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ we will guarantee for you ' . ''
After arriving safely in the city , the Kurers lived for a time with the Goodwins , while Peter 's father repeated his last year of dentistry training .
The Goodwins offered to pay for Peter and his brother Hans to attend a Quaker boarding school for two years , where they flourished to such an extent that Peter 's father later carried on paying for them to attend .
As an adult , Peter followed his father into dentistry .
He went on to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ type of threaded post used to support crowns which is now used the world over .
He says what he learned during lessons at the Quaker school helped inspire its design .
Such was the impression his own school days had left on him that Peter and his late wife Heather would eventually send two of their own four children to a Quaker boarding school .
`` The Quakers not only saved us , but they got other Quakers to give guarantees , at £2,500 a time , and they saved another five @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peter .
`` My education gave me a feeling that I owe something to the Quakers .
Six million exterminated and nine of us got out , thanks to the Quakers .
`` The Quakers guaranteed for thousands of Jews when the rest of the world sat back and slowly did nothing .
`` There were individuals who helped Jews , but as an organisation , the Quakers were the only organisation who helped organise anything . ''
Peter 's deep gratitude to the Quakers has been a constant in his life that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discovered some years ago that Israel 's Holocaust Museum , Yad Vasham , at the time had no information on role Quakers had played in helping Jews , he decided to write a thesis about it himself .
At first , they did not accept it , so Peter wrote a second thesis , 'The Missing Chapter ' and found five historians who were prepared to sign their names to it .
After seven years , it was finally accepted by the museum .
Today , at the age of 88 , Peter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the role they played in saving Jews from persecution .
Asked what motivates him , he says : `` I and my family were saved by the Quakers , and nobody knows they existed . ''
Read more of today 's stories here '' My parents told me the war would be over soon and we would be together again '' By the time she was seven-years old , Ruth Lachs , BEM , had already experienced the best - and the worst - of humanity .
As a little girl she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the dead of night , to avoid being discovered by SS officers .
It was only thanks to the bravery of a group of people who put their own lives in jeopardy to protect her , that Ruth survived .
Born in Hamburg in 1936 , for the first two years of her life Ruth enjoyed a happy , traditional , Jewish childhood .
But on November 9 , 1938 , everything changed .
More than 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed and hundreds of synagogues burnt to the ground on Kristallnacht - @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with them only a small amount of clothes and leaving behind their family business , which had been sold to non-Jews for a nominal amount , the family fled to Amsterdam .
Two years later , when Holland was invaded , the family once again found themselves in danger , and for a time , hid in their loft so people would think their home was empty .
When the Nazis began rounding up Jews to take them to a detention centre , they realised they had to separate and go into hiding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Karel , 3 , were taken in by a couple who could n't have children of their own and had to pretend their parents had been killed in the bombing of Rotterdam to avoid suspicion .
But in 1943 , someone tipped off the Nazis that they were hiding Jewish children .
It was then that Ruth and Karel were taken to a nursery at a Nazi collection centre .
When the SS arrived , a nursery nurse smuggled Ruth into the garden in the middle of the night and hid her in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be afraid , but Ruth knew she had to be absolutely silent to avoid being discovered .
The brave act of kindness undoubtedly saved her life .
Tragically , Karel was too poorly to leave the nursery after contracting polio , and later perished in Auschwitz .
But Ruth was smuggled by train to Limburg in the south of Holland by a young , non-Jewish Dutch student , who was part of an underground network .
After she fell ill herself with polio , the Christian family who were sheltering her anxiously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medical director agreed to keep her real identity a secret .
Two-and-a-half months later , Ruth was discharged and the movement that helped her get to Limburg took her back to Amsterdam .
She was able to hide until the end of the war in a home for mentally disabled children .
Ruth was eventually reunited with her parents , who survived the war by hiding in the north of the country , after they tracked her down through the Red Cross .
But the fear of not knowing if they would ever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ruth .
`` I like to speak to schools to educate the children , because they ca n't imagine what it was , '' added Ruth .
`` I felt quite distressed because other kids , their parents came , or their aunties or uncles , but I was one of the last in the home because my parents had trouble getting into Amsterdam .
`` After the war I felt very bad .
What was going to happen ?
I thank goodness it all turned out for the good . ''
Over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , particularly to school children , about her experiences during the war .
Now 83 , she lives in Prestwich with her husband Werner , 93 , who himself managed to escape Nazi persecution thanks to MI6 spy Frank Foley , who granted his family a visa to come to England in 1939 .
Ruth believes that what resonates most with the children she speaks to , and helps them connect to her story , is their appreciation of how frightening it must have been to be separated from her parents .
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I was hidden , and to be separated from your parents at the age of six with your brother is a big thing .
It 's formative years , '' she added .
`` My parents told me the war would be over soon and we would be together again , but it is a traumatic experience '' .
To this day Ruth remains committed to Holocaust education .
`` There 's a lot of antisemitism going around , because people do n't understand just how awful it really was , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I like to speak to schools , to educate the children , as they ca n't imagine what it was like . ''
`` Hatred is like a weed , it grows underground and by the time it gets to the surface it 's too strong to eradicate it . ''
In 1939 , sisters Gisela Feldman BEM and Sonja Sternberg BEM were passengers on board what later came to be known as 'The Voyage of the Damned ' .
Then just teenagers , the girls and their mother were among more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Cuba on the SS St Louis .
After years of growing hostility towards Jews following Hitler 's rise to power , things had become so precarious that the family felt they had no choice but to flee for their own survival .
The Cuban Embassy was selling visas and the sailing offered , they believed , a way out .
The voyage itself , on a luxury liner , was pleasant .
The crew were under Captain 's orders to treat the passengers well .
`` We had Gestapo on board , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , '' says Sonja .
`` We had one person who was very kind .
For my 13th birthday he gave me a present , a pen and writing paper which I kept until two years ago because it was so torn .
He was so kind .
He asked my mum , do you need any money for your children ? ''
But when the ship arrived at Havana Harbour , passengers discovered their visas had been revoked , and entry was refused .
The ship sailed to Florida , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to help .
The captain had no choice but to sail back to Europe , where eventually , France , Holland , Belgium and England agreed to take a share of the passengers each .
Sonja and Gisela 's father , after being hounded out of business , had been arrested and deported to Poland and was unable to make the crossing with his family .
But he managed to get a message to the ship , to give them a piece of advice that would turn out to be crucial for their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Many of the Jews who were taken in by countries in mainland Europe were later deported back to Germany when they became occupied .
Indeed , more than 250 of the SS St Louis ' former passengers ended up being murdered by the Nazis during the war .
The sisters , who were aged seven and ten and living in a non-Jewish neighbourhood of Berlin when Hitler came to power , still vividly remember the growing tensions of the 1930s .
`` All our friends were not Jewish but that made no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We played in the street together .
We were invited to their birthday parties and they were invited to ours and life was perfectly normal .
`` Then in 1933 Hitler came to power , and we had the workers march in the street on May 1 .
`` I heard a shot and a body was carried out of the block of flats where I lived , and as a ten-year-old , I knew that life would never be the same .
`` At the beginning , people were still very brave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ standing outside our shop saying 'do n't buy from Jews ' .
`` Even at the beginning the German people did n't think this sort of thing could go on , but in the end they became too afraid to stand up to a dictator . ''
Gradually , customers stopped coming to the family grocery store and the children stopped being invited to parties .
`` I must have minded , but I was so used to being Jewish there were certain things I did n't expect anymore , '' says Sonja @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-Jewish school after Kristallnacht .
Sonja , Gisela and their mother were able to start a new life in England .
An English immigration officer , impressed by how well Gisela could speak English , offered to help them .
But more 30 members of their family who did n't manage to get out would die in the Holocaust .
This includes , they fear , their father .
The sisters were in touch with him until 1942 , when all communication suddenly ceased .
To this day they do n't know the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , now aged 93 , remembers the day her father , who was born in what was at the time the Austro-Hungarian Empire and held a Polish passport , was taken away .
`` I screamed 'do n't take my daddy ' , she said .
`` They said to my mother 'if you do n't shut this child up we will take her as well ' .
My sister was very good and went to the kitchen and did some sandwiches for my father .
We had no idea where he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ London , their girls ' mother worked tirelessly to provide for her daughters .
`` We were n't supposed to work .
To earn money we painted the faces of toy soldiers , '' said Sonja .
`` My mother did cleaning for people she knew from Berlin who were clever and had left earlier .
`` Once war started we were allowed to work .
My mother worked in a pickle factory , she would come home and we sat peeling onions with our gas masks on . ''
Eventually Sonja , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moved to Manchester at the age of 29 , while Gisela , a teacher , moved here 25 years ago after losing her husband .
Both now widowed , the sisters live close to each other at Belong Morris Feinmann home in Didsbury .
Together they still often speak publicly , not only about their own experiences , but the adversity faced by refugees to this day .
`` After the Holocaust people said 'never again ' , '' said Gisela , now aged 96 .
`` When you look around , unfortunately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the never again , but if you stop educating people , things will never get better .
`` There is a saying , bad people only succeed if good people do nothing , so - education .
`` I do n't know if you succeed , but you must do some good , because people keep asking you to talk about it .
`` Once our generation is gone , the generation that can speak from experience is gone and people will only be able to talk about something they have been told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it grows underground and by the time it gets to the surface it 's too strong to eradicate it . ''

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Monday is Holocaust Memorial Day, a day to honour all those who suffered under Nazi persecution, and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps.
This year, a number of Greater Manchester's Jews were recognised in the New Year Honours list, for the work they have done, and continue to do, to educate others about the horrors of the Holocaust.
From being rescued from a pile of bodies after nine months in Auschwitz, the only survivor of a murdered family, to being forced to hide from the SS in a sandpit, these Mancunians endured the worst of humanity.
But the rich lives they have lived, their capacity to rebuild and thrive after such horror, and the kindness of the people who helped them survive, also bear witness to the best of us.
All have now been recognised with an MBE or British Empire Medal for their dedication.
These are their remarkable stories.
"We arrived in the middle of the night to Auschwitz"
(Image: Joel Goodman)
Eva Neumann, MBE, was just a child when she was discovered, gravely ill, lying on a pile of corpses in a concentration camp.
The teenager had spent nine months in Auschwitz, and as Russian forces advanced on the camp in early 1945, Eva was taken on a 'death march.'
Despite enduring the freezing conditions in only light clothing and wooden shoes, Eva survived, and ended up at the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp in Germany.
It was here that a Russian medic found her on a mound of bodies, realised she was still alive and took the then 15-year-old to hospital to begin her recovery.
But while she was eventually physically well enough to leave, Eva was left to contend with the knowledge that she was the only surviving member of her family.
A year earlier, upon arriving at Auschwitz, her father had lied to guards and told them Eva was 18, in order to save her life.
She was spared death and put to work sorting the clothes of everyone who arrived at the camp.
But her mother, father, two younger brothers and grandmother were all murdered at Auschwitz.
She searched for them after liberation, but was eventually forced to accept that she would never see them again.
Eva lived with her cousin for a time, before meeting her husband in Switzerland, and moving to Salford, where the mother-of-five still lives.
For decades, she spoke to no one about her experiences at the camp, not even her late husband, who himself had lost his family at Auschwitz.
Eva says that what happened there was so horrendous that she felt no one would ever believe it.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
It wasn't until decades later, when her grandson asked her to accompany a group of school children on an educational tour of Auschwitz, that Eva finally spoke about it.
"He's such a good boy that I could not refuse anything he wanted from me", says Eva, who is affectionately known to many as Bobby, a Jewish term for grandmother.
"You can't always cry and moan, you've got to do for others.
"That's my principle, if you help others, you help yourself," says Eva, now aged 90.
Eva grew up in a small border village in what was then Czechoslovakia.
"My father was a businessman. I had two little brothers and life was very simple, and very nice,"she said.
"The children were going to school and their hats were thrown into the river, lots of little troubles started.
"I realised I wasn't so worried about it, we had parents, they didn't let us worry, so I wasn't conscious of the situation.
"Then one day in 1944, April, on a Sunday morning, two Hungarians and two Germans came and told us to pack what we could carry.
"I wasn't worried. My parents were there, my father said 'don't worry'. I never cried.
"They took us to the synagogue where they collected all the Jews.
"Then they took us to the next town and collected all the Jews. Then put us in a huge factory, where we stayed for weeks.
"More or less the whole country was collected, then one morning they announced we were leaving.
"We were happy because we didn't know where we were going.
"They put us in wagons, we had no idea if it was day or night, there was a tiny window.
"We arrived in the middle of the night to Auschwitz.
"A fellow came up to my father and asked him how old I was, he said 15 and he said 'don't say 15, say she's 18', and they let me through.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
"My mother was sent by (Josef) Mengele to the right and I was on the left. I started crying 'mummy, mummy' and she said 'why are you making a noise? You will be shot in a minute.'
"I went from there to the bath, was shaved and tattooed. We stood outside and it was bitterly cold and then they took us to the barracks.
"I worked there sorting all the clothes that came in with people, putting them in bundles with sheets all over.
"That's what we did. Starving, hungry, freezing cold."
Eva frequently heard the chilling sounds of others in the camp being taken to their deaths in the gas chambers.
"I know my mother and my two brothers went in. Then months later my father went in. Then my grandmother," she added.
"One day they came in, the Russians were already coming, the Germans said 'we are leaving, anyone who is ill and can't walk can go to the hospital, anyone who doesn't want to go can stay'.
"When they said 'leave Auschwitz', I grabbed it, but I shouldn't have, because the people who stayed were liberated and they went home, and it was fantastic, and I still had months, walking to Germany.
"They called it the death march. There was snow. Not enough clothes, wooden shoes, no food, no drink. Just occasionally we went into farms and slept in hay.
"All the way there was snow and bodies so we tripped and tripped."
At Neustadt-Glewe, the living were forced to remove the bodies of those who had died, and place them outside.
An exhausted Eva ended up among the dead.
"I was one of the last to be put on the pile by my friend.
"A doctor lifted me up and he said I was still alive and he took me from the camp."
(Image: Getty Images)
Through her work with the Jewish charity Aish, Eva has accompanied many groups of children on trips to the camp over the past few years.
She knows that by meeting her, young people will gain a far greater understanding of what happened than they ever could from any book or film.
"If they understand what happened there, if they understand it could happen to anyone, not just Jews, we had a lot of non Jews there," added Eva.
"If you know what can happen, that's why we work like this.
"Not to say 'poor Eva that's been to Auschwitz', it's for showing the world, not just the kids.
"It's so horrendous, when I think about, do we really believe it? Because when we came back nobody spoke, and I know why.
"Nobody believed me, nobody believed any of us.
"What they did is something so horrendous that it's not believable. If you took a book and started reading, you'd throw the book away.
"Maybe those kids I took, they won't read that book, or see it on television, but if you talk enough, something might make them think."
"Suicide saved nine of our family"
(Image: Joel Goodman)
In 1938, Dr Peter Kurer BEM was six-years-old and living with his older brother, and the mother and father he adored, in Vienna.
But when Austria was annexed, it wasn't long before the SS showed up at the family's door, looking for his dentist father.
Realising the urgent need to leave the country, Peter's parents turned to Quakers in Manchester for help.
What they did for his family undoubtedly saved all their lives, and ushered in the start of Peter's lifelong admiration and profound respect for the Quaker faith.
"I remember Hitler coming in. Hitler was very keen on employing people. Every house had swastika flags from the roof to the floor," says Peter, who now lives in Stockport.
"I remember the early days, seeing the planes.
(Image: Dr Peter Kurer)
"A few weeks after that somebody phoned my mother from down the road and said 'watch it, the SS are coming for your husband.'
"My father was just about ready to go to his dental place a quarter of a mile away and my mother said, 'go back to bed'.
"She took a thermometer, put it in warm water, five minutes later, 'bang bang bang', it's the SS. They want my father.
"My mother said 'he's got a very infectious disease, here's the thermometer', and they left him.
"In Germany they would have taken him if he'd been at death's door, in Austria, Vienna, they left him."
Peter's parents spoke for an hour, and decided they must leave the country within a week.
Incredibly, it was because of the connections they had made in Manchester with Quakers, following an earlier family tragedy, that they were able to escape.
Years earlier, his mother's sister had worked for a Vienna textile firm which did business with a firm in Manchester.
Peter's aunt frequently corresponded with a young man who worked there, and he eventually came to Vienna to see her.
"The third time he visited, they got engaged," added Peter
"Three months later they got married in a in a civil service in Vienna and she went to live in Manchester.
"He was a Quaker attendee. My parents always said he was a very nice fellow. I still vaguely remember him.
"After three and a half years of marriage, she committed suicide, from loneliness. Women didn't work, she was twiddling her thumbs six days a week.
"She had a Quaker funeral, which my parents attended. Suicide saved nine of our family."
In order to move to Britain, the family first had to find someone to 'guarantee' for them, which meant paying the government £50 per person, around £2,500 in today's money, to increase their chances of getting a visa.
"My father phoned some Quakers in Manchester," added Peter.
"The Goodwins, who lived in Whalley Range. They were jewellers in Swan Street in Manchester.
"They said 'come to Manchester, we will guarantee for you'."
(Image: Joel Goodman)
After arriving safely in the city, the Kurers lived for a time with the Goodwins, while Peter's father repeated his last year of dentistry training.
The Goodwins offered to pay for Peter and his brother Hans to attend a Quaker boarding school for two years, where they flourished to such an extent that Peter's father later carried on paying for them to attend.
As an adult, Peter followed his father into dentistry.
He went on to invent the Kurer Anchor system, a type of threaded post used to support crowns which is now used the world over.
He says what he learned during lessons at the Quaker school helped inspire its design.
Such was the impression his own school days had left on him that Peter and his late wife Heather would eventually send two of their own four children to a Quaker boarding school.
(Image: Dr Peter Kurer)
"The Quakers not only saved us, but they got other Quakers to give guarantees, at £2,500 a time, and they saved another five members of our family," added Peter.
"My education gave me a feeling that I owe something to the Quakers. Six million exterminated and nine of us got out, thanks to the Quakers.
"The Quakers guaranteed for thousands of Jews when the rest of the world sat back and slowly did nothing.
"There were individuals who helped Jews, but as an organisation, the Quakers were the only organisation who helped organise anything."
Peter's deep gratitude to the Quakers has been a constant in his life that continues to this day.
After he discovered some years ago that Israel's Holocaust Museum, Yad Vasham, at the time had no information on role Quakers had played in helping Jews, he decided to write a thesis about it himself.
At first, they did not accept it, so Peter wrote a second thesis, 'The Missing Chapter' and found five historians who were prepared to sign their names to it. After seven years, it was finally accepted by the museum.
Today, at the age of 88, Peter still regularly gives talks to raise awareness of the role they played in saving Jews from persecution.
Asked what motivates him, he says: "I and my family were saved by the Quakers, and nobody knows they existed."
"My parents told me the war would be over soon and we would be together again"
(Image: Joel Goodman)
By the time she was seven-years old, Ruth Lachs, BEM, had already experienced the best - and the worst - of humanity.
As a little girl she was forced to hide in a sandpit in the dead of night, to avoid being discovered by SS officers.
It was only thanks to the bravery of a group of people who put their own lives in jeopardy to protect her, that Ruth survived.
Born in Hamburg in 1936, for the first two years of her life Ruth enjoyed a happy, traditional, Jewish childhood.
But on November 9, 1938, everything changed.
More than 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed and hundreds of synagogues burnt to the ground on Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass.
Taking with them only a small amount of clothes and leaving behind their family business, which had been sold to non-Jews for a nominal amount, the family fled to Amsterdam.
Two years later, when Holland was invaded, the family once again found themselves in danger, and for a time, hid in their loft so people would think their home was empty.
When the Nazis began rounding up Jews to take them to a detention centre, they realised they had to separate and go into hiding completely.
Ruth and her little brother Karel, 3, were taken in by a couple who couldn't have children of their own and had to pretend their parents had been killed in the bombing of Rotterdam to avoid suspicion.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
But in 1943, someone tipped off the Nazis that they were hiding Jewish children.
It was then that Ruth and Karel were taken to a nursery at a Nazi collection centre.
When the SS arrived, a nursery nurse smuggled Ruth into the garden in the middle of the night and hid her in the sandpit.
She urged her not to be afraid, but Ruth knew she had to be absolutely silent to avoid being discovered.
The brave act of kindness undoubtedly saved her life.
Tragically, Karel was too poorly to leave the nursery after contracting polio, and later perished in Auschwitz.
But Ruth was smuggled by train to Limburg in the south of Holland by a young, non-Jewish Dutch student, who was part of an underground network.
After she fell ill herself with polio, the Christian family who were sheltering her anxiously took her to hospital - where the medical director agreed to keep her real identity a secret.
Two-and-a-half months later, Ruth was discharged and the movement that helped her get to Limburg took her back to Amsterdam.
She was able to hide until the end of the war in a home for mentally disabled children.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
Ruth was eventually reunited with her parents, who survived the war by hiding in the north of the country, after they tracked her down through the Red Cross.
But the fear of not knowing if they would ever find her took its toll on young Ruth.
"I like to speak to schools to educate the children, because they can't imagine what it was," added Ruth.
"I felt quite distressed because other kids, their parents came, or their aunties or uncles, but I was one of the last in the home because my parents had trouble getting into Amsterdam.
"After the war I felt very bad. What was going to happen? I thank goodness it all turned out for the good."
Over the years Ruth has given countless talks, particularly to school children, about her experiences during the war.
Now 83, she lives in Prestwich with her husband Werner, 93, who himself managed to escape Nazi persecution thanks to MI6 spy Frank Foley, who granted his family a visa to come to England in 1939.
(Image: MEN Media)
Ruth believes that what resonates most with the children she speaks to, and helps them connect to her story, is their appreciation of how frightening it must have been to be separated from her parents.
"Although I wasn't in a camp, I was hidden, and to be separated from your parents at the age of six with your brother is a big thing. It's formative years," she added.
"My parents told me the war would be over soon and we would be together again, but it is a traumatic experience".
To this day Ruth remains committed to Holocaust education.
"There's a lot of antisemitism going around, because people don't understand just how awful it really was," she added.
"That's why I like to speak to schools, to educate the children, as they can't imagine what it was like."
"Hatred is like a weed, it grows underground and by the time it gets to the surface it's too strong to eradicate it."
(Image: Joel Goodman)
In 1939, sisters Gisela Feldman BEM and Sonja Sternberg BEM were passengers on board what later came to be known as 'The Voyage of the Damned'.
Then just teenagers, the girls and their mother were among more than 900 Jews who set sail from Germany to Cuba on the SS St Louis.
After years of growing hostility towards Jews following Hitler's rise to power, things had become so precarious that the family felt they had no choice but to flee for their own survival.
The Cuban Embassy was selling visas and the sailing offered, they believed, a way out.
The voyage itself, on a luxury liner, was pleasant. The crew were under Captain's orders to treat the passengers well.
"We had Gestapo on board, but some of the crew were lovely," says Sonja.
"We had one person who was very kind. For my 13th birthday he gave me a present, a pen and writing paper which I kept until two years ago because it was so torn. He was so kind. He asked my mum, do you need any money for your children?"
(Image: Joel Goodman)
But when the ship arrived at Havana Harbour, passengers discovered their visas had been revoked, and entry was refused.
The ship sailed to Florida, but the USA, and later Canada, refused to help.
The captain had no choice but to sail back to Europe, where eventually, France, Holland, Belgium and England agreed to take a share of the passengers each.
Sonja and Gisela's father, after being hounded out of business, had been arrested and deported to Poland and was unable to make the crossing with his family.
But he managed to get a message to the ship, to give them a piece of advice that would turn out to be crucial for their survival.
Try to go to England.
Many of the Jews who were taken in by countries in mainland Europe were later deported back to Germany when they became occupied.
Indeed, more than 250 of the SS St Louis' former passengers ended up being murdered by the Nazis during the war.
The sisters, who were aged seven and ten and living in a non-Jewish neighbourhood of Berlin when Hitler came to power, still vividly remember the growing tensions of the 1930s.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
"All our friends were not Jewish but that made no difference," says Gisela.
"We played in the street together. We were invited to their birthday parties and they were invited to ours and life was perfectly normal.
"Then in 1933 Hitler came to power, and we had the workers march in the street on May 1.
"I heard a shot and a body was carried out of the block of flats where I lived, and as a ten-year-old, I knew that life would never be the same.
"At the beginning, people were still very brave, even though we had SS men standing outside our shop saying 'don't buy from Jews'.
"Even at the beginning the German people didn't think this sort of thing could go on, but in the end they became too afraid to stand up to a dictator."
Gradually, customers stopped coming to the family grocery store and the children stopped being invited to parties.
"I must have minded, but I was so used to being Jewish there were certain things I didn't expect anymore," says Sonja, who was thrown out of her non-Jewish school after Kristallnacht.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
Sonja, Gisela and their mother were able to start a new life in England.
An English immigration officer, impressed by how well Gisela could speak English, offered to help them.
But more 30 members of their family who didn't manage to get out would die in the Holocaust.
This includes, they fear, their father.
The sisters were in touch with him until 1942, when all communication suddenly ceased. To this day they don't know the exact details of his fate.
Sonja, now aged 93, remembers the day her father, who was born in what was at the time the Austro-Hungarian Empire and held a Polish passport, was taken away.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
"I screamed 'don't take my daddy', she said.
"They said to my mother 'if you don't shut this child up we will take her as well'. My sister was very good and went to the kitchen and did some sandwiches for my father. We had no idea where he was going".
Settling at first in London, their girls' mother worked tirelessly to provide for her daughters.
"We weren't supposed to work. To earn money we painted the faces of toy soldiers," said Sonja.
"My mother did cleaning for people she knew from Berlin who were clever and had left earlier.
"Once war started we were allowed to work. My mother worked in a pickle factory, she would come home and we sat peeling onions with our gas masks on."
Eventually Sonja, who ran a dress making business, moved to Manchester at the age of 29, while Gisela, a teacher, moved here 25 years ago after losing her husband.
Both now widowed, the sisters live close to each other at Belong Morris Feinmann home in Didsbury.
Together they still often speak publicly, not only about their own experiences, but the adversity faced by refugees to this day.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
"After the Holocaust people said 'never again'," said Gisela, now aged 96.
"When you look around, unfortunately we haven't been too successful with the never again, but if you stop educating people, things will never get better.
(Image: Joel Goodman)
"There is a saying, bad people only succeed if good people do nothing, so - education.
"I don't know if you succeed, but you must do some good, because people keep asking you to talk about it.
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"Once our generation is gone, the generation that can speak from experience is gone and people will only be able to talk about something they have been told.
"Hatred is like a weed, it grows underground and by the time it gets to the surface it's too strong to eradicate it."


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--What Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said to Tranmere Rovers goalkeeper after Manchester United win

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thanked the Tranmere goalkeeper Scott Davies for firing up the Manchester United players before their 6-0 thrashing at Prenton Park .
Ahead of the FA Cup fourth round tie , Manchester City supporter Davies , 32 , said he and his family had a 'big hatred ' of United and 'if myself and my football club can have an influence on them having another bad day then great ' .
However , Davies shipped six goals and was heckled by the United away following in the Cowshed End with chants of 'City reject ' throughout the chastening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Davies outside the dressing rooms after United 's win and said : `` Thanks for firing up the fans and the players . ''
United recorded their biggest victory since August 2011 at League One Tranmere .
Harry Maguire and Diogo Dalot scored their first United goals against Davies , who also became the first opposition goalkeeper to concede to Phil Jones since March 2014 .
Davies was fortunate not to be dismissed for deliberately upending Tahith Chong when through on goal early in the second-half .
United were awarded a penalty that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a humiliating afternoon for Davies , he could be seen pointing to his light blue kit at full-time and exchanging verbals with United supporters .
Following Tranmere 's third round replay victory over Watford , Blackpool-born Davies said : `` Twenty years of my childhood and growing up as a teenager was absolute torture , so the last 10 years or so has been great .
`` They always looked down on Man City over the years but now it ’ s turned around quickly .
If myself and my football club can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad day then great .
It would be unbelievable .
I 've already had plenty of text messages along those lines , from United supporters as well !
`` I ’ m not a big lover of Man United , I ’ ll be totally honest , but on Sunday I ’ ll be totally professional and approaching it in a different manner .
`` I go to most home games and a lot of away games when we ’ re not playing Sunday and midweek games so I ’ ve been to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at City .
`` There ’ s a big hatred for Manchester United in the family but on Sunday it ’ s purely professional . ''
Tranmere are 21st in League One and in the relegation zone .

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thanked the Tranmere goalkeeper Scott Davies for firing up the Manchester United players before their 6-0 thrashing at Prenton Park.
Ahead of the FA Cup fourth round tie, Manchester City supporter Davies, 32, said he and his family had a 'big hatred' of United and 'if myself and my football club can have an influence on them having another bad day then great'.
However, Davies shipped six goals and was heckled by the United away following in the Cowshed End with chants of 'City reject' throughout the chastening defeat.
The MEN understands Solskjaer spotted Davies outside the dressing rooms after United's win and said: "Thanks for firing up the fans and the players." United recorded their biggest victory since August 2011 at League One Tranmere.
Harry Maguire and Diogo Dalot scored their first United goals against Davies, who also became the first opposition goalkeeper to concede to Phil Jones since March 2014. Davies was fortunate not to be dismissed for deliberately upending Tahith Chong when through on goal early in the second-half. United were awarded a penalty that was converted by Mason Greenwood.
Despite a humiliating afternoon for Davies, he could be seen pointing to his light blue kit at full-time and exchanging verbals with United supporters.
Following Tranmere's third round replay victory over Watford, Blackpool-born Davies said: "Twenty years of my childhood and growing up as a teenager was absolute torture, so the last 10 years or so has been great.
"They always looked down on Man City over the years but now it’s turned around quickly. If myself and my football club can have an influence on them having another bad day then great. It would be unbelievable. I've already had plenty of text messages along those lines, from United supporters as well!
"I’m not a big lover of Man United, I’ll be totally honest, but on Sunday I’ll be totally professional and approaching it in a different manner.
"I go to most home games and a lot of away games when we’re not playing Sunday and midweek games so I’ve been to plenty of derbies at Old Trafford and at City.
"There’s a big hatred for Manchester United in the family but on Sunday it’s purely professional."
Tranmere are 21st in League One and in the relegation zone.


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--Traffic halted on the M60 between Hollinwood and Ashton due to police incident

Traffic has been halted on a stretch of the M60 due to a police incident .
The clockwise carriageway is @ @ @ @ @ Hollinwood , and junction 23 , Ashton , while police officers support a person in @ @ @ @ @ long tailbacks along the M60 clockwise .
A GMP spokesman said : `` We are @ @ @ @ @ a bridge . ''
The anti-clockwise carriageway is still open .
North West Motorway Police @ @ @ @ @ J22-23 M60 CW is closed between Hollinwood and Ashton due to a Police incident .
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Traffic has been halted on a stretch of the M60 due to a police incident.
The clockwise carriageway is blocked between junction 20, Hollinwood, and junction 23, Ashton, while police officers support a person in distress.
There are a long tailbacks along the M60 clockwise.
A GMP spokesman said: "We are attending someone in distress on a bridge."
The anti-clockwise carriageway is still open.
North West Motorway Police said on Twitter: "J22-23 M60 CW is closed between Hollinwood and Ashton due to a Police incident."


themanchestereveningnews--2020-01-26--Man City 'make enquiry' about France teenage prodigy and more transfer rumours

Man City have made contact with French club Rennes about their young midfielder Eduardo Camavinga , according to reports .
City 's vast scouting network has seen them scoop up promising talent throughout the world of football , with the likes of Ante Palaversa , Felix Coreria and Pedro Porro just a few of the teenagers to be brought into the system in the last 12-months .
Angola-born Camavinga is the next on the radar , according to the Express .
The defensive midfielder is making waves in Ligue 1 this season and has already made 33 appearances at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ youngest ever player when he made his debut last season at 16 .
Camavinga has only missed two games so far this season , in a team which currently sits third in the league , proving how important he has become at such a young age .
It 's claimed that City 'have asked Rennes about Camavinga ' ahead of a potential move but will face competition from the likes of Bayern Munich , Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain .
Meanwhile , City have reportedly dropped interest in Leicester City defender Ben Chilwell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the England international in the summer but Guardiola opted against spending big on a new left-back , instead placing his faith in Benjamin Mendy and Aleks Zinchenko , as well as re-signing Angelino from PSV Eindhoven .
However , City 's defence has got worse this season - mostly down to the injury issues at centre-back - but left-back has also been a problem with the trio either struggling with injury or for form .
As a result it had been suggested that Guardiola will once again look to bring a new left-back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Metro , it wo n't be Chilwell .
It 's reported that City have 'dropped their interest in the 23-year-old as the Blues boss is 'reluctant to pay upwards of £50million for a player who would provide competition for the likes of Mendy and Zinchenko . '
Chelsea , Manchester United and Liverpool have also been linked .

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Man City have made contact with French club Rennes about their young midfielder Eduardo Camavinga, according to reports.
City's vast scouting network has seen them scoop up promising talent throughout the world of football, with the likes of Ante Palaversa, Felix Coreria and Pedro Porro just a few of the teenagers to be brought into the system in the last 12-months.
Angola-born Camavinga is the next on the radar, according to the Express.
The defensive midfielder is making waves in Ligue 1 this season and has already made 33 appearances at the age of 17, having become Rennes youngest ever player when he made his debut last season at 16.
Camavinga has only missed two games so far this season, in a team which currently sits third in the league, proving how important he has become at such a young age.
It's claimed that City 'have asked Rennes about Camavinga' ahead of a potential move but will face competition from the likes of Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.
Meanwhile, City have reportedly dropped interest in Leicester City defender Ben Chilwell.
City were on the tail of the England international in the summer but Guardiola opted against spending big on a new left-back, instead placing his faith in Benjamin Mendy and Aleks Zinchenko, as well as re-signing Angelino from PSV Eindhoven.
However, City's defence has got worse this season - mostly down to the injury issues at centre-back - but left-back has also been a problem with the trio either struggling with injury or for form.
As a result it had been suggested that Guardiola will once again look to bring a new left-back to the club but, according to the Metro, it won't be Chilwell.
It's reported that City have 'dropped their interest in the 23-year-old as the Blues boss is 'reluctant to pay upwards of £50million for a player who would provide competition for the likes of Mendy and Zinchenko.'
Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool have also been linked.