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Crews smashed their way into the building after being alerted to the incident by a council gritting manager who saw the glow of flames inside the Sunnyhills Road building.

Now Breeze House managing director Andrew Peck has thanked the quick-thinking worker who helped to save the building from more serious damage.

Mr Peck, who founded the business with brother Chris, said: "I would love to meet the council worker who spotted the fire so I can thank him personally.

"He has made a huge difference because if the fire had gone on for another 30 minutes before the call was made then it would have caused much more damage.

"At that time of the morning it would have been quiet so it is fortunate he saw the fire."

Breeze House was founded 18 years ago and currently has 40 employees. It makes luxury garden buildings including wooden gazebos and regularly exhibits at Chelsea Flower Show.

Mr Peck added: "I had no idea how big the fire was when I got the call at 5am from my brother.

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MichelleChow commented Update: More than 30,000 of timber at Breeze House...

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High winds tear down TV aerials, pull slates from roofs and cause derelict building to collapse

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

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High winds have ripped through Greater Manchester overnight, closing a road and tearing down TV aerials, tiles and bricks.

A main route through Middleton town centre was shut late on Wednesday after the strong gusts partially-collapsed a building.

Market Place remained shut on Thursday morning while the structure, the former Baby World store across from Popeyes Takeaway, was assessed by council engineers.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service were also called.

No one was hurt during the incident but the area was deemed too unstable for pedestrians and cars to pass, police confirmed.

Firefighters were also called to two streets in Bury after TV aerials were pulled from two homes by the winds.

Crews were scrambled to Manchester Road in the town at 9pm after a 10ft mast was blown off and a satellite dish came loose.

Two hours later, shortly after 11pm, they also attended Booth Street where another aerial had come down.

The fire teams used ladders and lights to reach the damaged buildings and secure them.

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Feng Shui with Papa Chak – Part 1/4 – Tikoy – Video

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Feng Shui with Papa Chak - Part 1/4 - Tikoy
Papa Chak is a 32nd degree black belter in Feng Shui. He gives advise to lucky callers. In this episode, learn what the correct (and lucky) way of eating tikoy (Chinese new year #39;s cake)

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Case retains faith in Deep Trouble

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Updated: Thursday, 15 Jan 2015 10:36 | Comments Deep Trouble (centre in yellow in black) has not won yet over fences

Ben Case has not lost faith in Punchestown Festival winner Deep Trouble despite him failing to win in his first three outings over fences.

Third to the useful Three Kingdoms on his chasing debut, he was then pulled up behind Coneygree before shaping much better at Kempton over Christmas when he would have been placed in the Wayward Lad Chase won by Vibrato Valtat but for falling at the last.

He will head to Huntingdon next month before Case decides on a Cheltenham target.

"He ran very well first time at Leicester behind Three Kingdoms but it turned into a sprint and then I ran him back too quick at Newbury, where he was keen on dead ground so I put a line through that," said Case.

"He showed what he was capable of at Kempton and he still had a bit left when he fell. He would have been second at least I think. "After that fall he was a bit stiff and sore so we gave him a little break.

"He'll go to Huntingdon in mid-February and after that we'll decide on the Arkle or the Grand Annual.

"We know he goes on better ground so he'll have plenty of options in the spring."

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Archbishop Chaput celebrates Mass behind bars

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

As church settings go, it was grim - high cinder block walls, surrounded by tall fences and coils of razor wire.

No light shone through stained-glass images of Christ. And no choir boys appeared in white, their places assumed by unsmiling officers in black shirts who kept watch on a congregation arrayed in a prison gym.

Into that environ stepped the archbishop of Philadelphia, who on Thursday offered a message of faith, hope and charity to inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. The hour-long mass drew about 80 inmates, all wearing standard sky-blue shirts and navy pants, the only adornments the tattoos on their arms and necks.

"It's a special event," one inmate enthused.

"It's a show," another griped.

Archbishop Charles Chaput came as part of the Archdiocese's Prison Ministry Program, which carries out the biblical mandate to visit people in jail. The church maintains a presence in prisons located within its boundaries.

"God loves us," Chaput told the men, who sat before him in plastic chairs. "He loves us each individually, whether we're sinners or not, whether we're in prison or not."

Prison staffers attended the mass too, stopping Chaput afterward to pose for pictures. Inmates shook his hand, seeking a word of comfort from the leader of their faith.

Almost all the prisoners there had "CATH" stamped on their identification wristbands.

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