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Eccles

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Eccles (ek`əlz), town (1991 pop. 37,166), Salford metropolitan district, NW England, in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Manchester Ship Canal. Industries include chemicals, rubber, plastics, textiles, and light and heavy engineering. Eccles cakes are famous. The parish church is said to date from 1111, although most of the present building is of the 15th cent.
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Sir John Carew. 1903--97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

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a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop.: 36 610 (2001)


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In 2004, Eccles was banned from most of central Scotland for leading a teen gang that terrorised shopkeepers and residents in Alva, Clackmannanshire.
Mr Eccles was left with a shattered eye socket, collapsed lung, broken ribs and stamping injuries covering his body after he was brutally assaulted by the pair in Lichfield.
ECCLES was appointed as the executive director of the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
 
 
 
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