Manchester family articles
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‘Shelbourne really has held our family together. Families come and go in football terms, but Shels is a family. The league is a family’
Brothers Eric and Maurice Frazer gaze out across Tolka Park as the groundsman is putting the finishing touches to the pitch. It’s Friday night, it’s Shelbourne against St Patrick’s Athletic and a big derby awaits on Dublin’s northside.
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This Manchester Center Family Is a National Show Horse Powerhouse
Tango trotted boldly around the arena, mane flying, head upright and regal, like a chessboard knight come to life. The chestnut-colored gelding, an American saddlebred, circled the ring pulling a two-wheeled buggy, his high-stepping legs pumping like pistons. "Steady! Watch your speed!" shouted Jaisen von Ballmoos, head trainer of Fairview Stable in Granville, N.Y., from the center of the ring. "Get more horse without going fast." Meghan von Ballmoos, Jaisen's wife, translated the...
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England cricket legend Ben Stokes stranded in Manchester with visa trouble trying to go on US holiday with his family
The 32-year-old was forced to ditch his wife and two children at the airport, who boarded their flight without him, leaving him alone in the big city, miles from his family home in County Durham.