Audenshaw.

When sixteen year old Brenda Ann Spencer went on a high school shooting rampage in 1979, she had more than two deaths and eight injured children on her conscience. She allegedly inspired Bob Geldof to write 'I Don't Like Mondays' for his band The Boomtown Rats.

High School Massacres are all too common - here's the top ten.

Unlikely as it seems - Matthew Swift, 18, and Ross McKnight, 16 almost added Audenshaw to that list.

Audenshaw and Denton are near Manchester. They are small innocuous towns inhabited by working class people who have a reputation for being your typical 'salt of the earth' Northerners. But, instead of breeding whippets, lending cups of sugar to the neighbours and doing Granny’s shopping in Morrisons, these two lads have been planning death and destruction.

Their targets were their school - Audenshaw High (where Mick Hucknall used to go) and Crown Point Shopping centre (where Kaz goes shopping).

(You'll think you've died and gone to heaven at Crown Point. No Comet, Currys or B&Q - just River Island, TK Max, H&M etc. etc..)

I don't think these two young men owned guns but they intended to get them and use them. Brenda Anne's rifle was given to her as a Christmas present by her father.

How are the courts going to deal with this?

Lads who brag or write about blowing up school can't be so unusual. Bomb recipes containing hydrogen peroxide are all over the internet - just do a search - and most of the ingredients are perfectly legal.

Is this the real life
Is this just fantasy ...
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me

....... and in Audenshaw of all places.

The trial proceeds at Manchester Crown Court this week.
What do you think we should do with them?
KAZ
The boys were aquitted 'Police and prosecutors have been strongly criticised for pursuing the case.'
See them here.