A NEW book about The Fall reveals the huge influence Prestwich had on the songwriting of frontman Mark E Smith. Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall compiles never-before-published essays and rare ephemera of the legendary post-punk band supplied by fans and collectors. In the book, Elaine Harwood, an architectural historian with Historic England, writes about how the brutalist architecture of Mark’s hometown impacted on his lyrics and outlook. Mark, who died in 2018 at the age of 60, grew up in Sedgley Park and an indication of his love for the area and its local mythology is indicated by the number of Prestwich buildings featured on The Fall’s early record covers. “Writing about Prestwich is just as valid as Dante writing about his inferno,” he wrote in his autobiography
The out of control gang of thugs who thought they were untouchable
Five men have been jailed following a shocking crime spree
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Tyrone Breeze and Prince Moyo (Image: GMP)
An out of control gang of thugs have been jailed for a shocking crime spree, including the knifing of a brave shop owner who intervened during a robbery.
He was stabbed six times as he tried to stop drug fuelled robber Tyrone Breeze from escaping his shop in Cheetham Hill.
It was a miracle he wasn t more seriously hurt, a court heard.
Just minutes earlier, Breeze, 28, and another thug, Prince Moyo, 21, subjected a mum and her two young children to a truly terrifying ordeal, as they tried to car jack her.
JAILED: (l-r): Jack Moyo, Dylan Worthington, Jack Worthington THREE men have been jailed after a man was left with stab wounds following a fight outside a Prestwich pub. Violence erupted at the Woodthorpe Hotel on Bury Old Road on a sunny Sunday afternoon in May 2019 when fights broke out between several men in front of a number of families in the pub garden. Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Prince Moyo, 21 and brothers Dylan Worthington, 22, and Jack Worthington, 19, were part of a group who turned up at the pub in a mini bus at around 5pm on May 12, but were refused service due to them smelling of cannabis.