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THE victim of a shooting near a primary school this morning was a drugs baron behind a Breaking Bad-style plot, it has been revealed. Neil Strong, 36, was jailed four years ago after being caught red-handed setting up a drugs lab in a suburban Manchester home. They had intended to produce £1.6million of amphetamines. At around 9am this morning police were called to  a quiet residential street near a primary school in Bury, Gtr Manchester, after locals reported hearing gunshots.

A BUILDER was left dazzled by a 4½in Frazzle — which could be a world record. Harry Langley, 24, pulled out the bumper bacon snack, three times normal size, while eating lunch in his work van. Harry told The Sun: “I didn’t actually notice it straightaway, which was weird because it was almost as big as the packet. “The top end was sticking out, and as I pulled it out it just carried on going and going.

LOVE Your Garden star Alan Titchmarsh has bagged himself a brand new competition series and its all about dogs. The much-loved TV star will be straying away from making garden's look pretty and turning the attention onto a series of pooches. Channel 5 has commissioned a brand new show fronted by the star entitled, Underdog to Super Dog. The four-part series will follow three 'underdogs' as they undergo a series of transformation to become 'Super Dog'.

A BRITISH wife killer has been arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca after eight years on the run. Glenn Wathall was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999 for beating his partner to death in a Christmas Day attack But he went AWOL following his February 2015 breach of bail conditions after his release from jail on parole. Today Spanish detectives confirmed the arrest and said he had been handed over to a judge who would now decide whether to extradite him.

HERE'S an Scotch Egg recipe with a difference - someone has worked out how to make them with CHOCOLATE. A genius Reddit user came up with the chocolatey treat for the run-up to Easter - and dubbed it the Creme Scotch Egg. It's a normal scotch egg, except it does without the meat, breadcrumbs, and actual egg. The egg is replaced by a creme egg, and then wrapped in a thick layer of chocolate sponge.

THE PRISON where Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy is being held is plagued with a "tangled web of gangs" with 29 inmate attacks a MONTH. Mendy, 27, has been on remand in Liverpool's HMP Altcourse since August as he faces a total of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault. It's now been revealed that there were nearly 340 inmate assaults in the last year - despite prisoners being locked up for the majority of the day during the pandemic.

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CHINA is on course to finish building an "artificial sun" before the end of the year, local media reports. The incredible structure will be capable of reaching 100million degrees Celcius – six times hotter than the centre of our Sun. Scientists hope that the "artificial sun" will help harness the power of nuclear fusion. This would bring humanity a step closer to creating "unlimited clean energy", by mimicking reactions that naturally occur inside the Sun proper.

That's all from London Manchester United defeated Fulham 1-0 with a late winner by Bruno Fernandes at Craven Cottage. United and the Cottagers played out a rather dull fixture but started strong with Scott McTominay hitting the back of the net after just eight minutes. Christian Eriksen delivered in a beautiful free-kick to Alejandro Garnacho down th left and the winger played it to the penalty area where he found McTominay who beat Bernd Leno.