Benchill is a district of the city of Manchester, part of the massive Wythenshawe council estate, about eight miles south of the city centre. Manchester is a city in the North West of England. ... Wythenshawe is a housing estate to the south of Manchester. ...
Benchill, part of the Wythenshawe estate, came top of the deprivation league in the UK last year.
In Benchill, with its former pockets of intense deprivation, where problems of unemployment, crime, poor health, housing and education are interrelated, I believe a corner has been turned.
Whether it is deprivation in Benchill, racial tensions in Oldham, or the drugs culture in Moss Side, we all have our own mountains to climb in Manchester.
She had made her point: the frothing of the drink was a metaphor for the build-up and explosion of temper.
Benchill's children were having a session on anger management.
Wade did not pack an egg-timer into her briefcase when she went to Benchill, but she did include reels of stickers (rewards for good behaviour) and Angry Arthur, Hiawyn Oram's prize-winning story of a boy whose rages set off thunderstorms, earthquakes and cosmic meltdown.
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