All the cafés and restaurants currently up for sale in Bury

described as a 'complete breakdown in social distancing'. David Regan, director of public health for Manchester, said: "We all know that we need to stop the spread of Covid-19 and get the number of cases going back down again.

Manchester council wants all of them to be no-smoking zones in a bid to cut the number of smokers in the city.

Bury this morning after a teenager was shot.A major police investigation has been launched after the boy suffered life-threatening injuries during an incident on Chesham Road at around 9.35pm yesterday.Several streets in the area remain cordoned off on Thursday morning with officers guarding the scene.The teenage boy was taken to hospital with what police described as 'life-threatening' injuries last night.No arrests have been made.Greater Manchester Police have been contacted for an update on

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Eat Out to Help Out scheme. After months of enforced closures with only takeaway trade to rely on, many have had little or no money coming in.And with lots of people still understandably anxious about going out, or having less money to spend themselves if their jobs have been affected, businesses still have a battle on their hands to get back to pre-lockdown levels of trade.

Bury has almost doubled in the last week.

hereOr to like her Facebook page and keep up to with the latest news, click hereHere's the link to the M.E.N's main Facebook page where we share our latest stories.“Each one was carefully planned and fraudulent bank details were used to purchase high-value items from stores in Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.“The women committed the offences in order to fund their lavish lifestyles, buying expensive clothing, perfumes and designer sunglasses.“It is

measures were introduced across Greater Manchester last week following rising rates of confirmed coronavirus cases, banning people from different households from mixing in homes and private gardens. Residents have also been told not to meet indoors at pubs, bars and restaurants, although up to six people from different households - or larger groups from only two households - may still meet in beer gardens and outdoor dining areas.

“hospitality business” in the city. Health chiefs said the contained outbreak presented “no perceived additional risk to the public” and test and trace was used to ensure those affected were supported.

had been approved by Manchester council in the weeks leading up to the reopening of the hospitality sector on July 4.New legislation recently passed by the government now calls for bars and restaurants to provide both smoking and non-smoking areas outside their premises.But the city council will go one step further by making all outdoor areas smoke-free so as to not ‘sleepwalk from one health crisis to another'.Councillor Rabnawaz Akbar, executive member for neighbourhoods, said: “Smoking is not

A new outdoor restaurant is being set up in Manchester city centre, to support businesses without their own outside space.The pop-up space will appear outside the Great Northern on Peter Street and will be taken over by some of the city's best restaurants.It's a timely move, as Greater Manchester is put under stricter lockdown restrictions that mean people from different households can no longer meet indoors.Similar moves have been taken across the Northern Quarter and Ancoats to provide

Manchester restaurants are throwing in their own deals too to make your cash go even further.

Stockport town centre have tested postive for Covid-19, McDonald's have confirmed.

Bury Council this week allow the local authority to fine rogue landlords and letting agents up to £30,000.

Bury have found themselves under new local lockdown restrictions this morning (July 31) despite the borough reporting fewer than five cases a day. Last night, Matt Hancock announced that Greater Manchester and other areas in the UK would be locked back down after an alarming increase in infection rates in some boroughs.

New local lockdown restrictions will apply to Bury despite the fact that the borough is reporting fewer than five cases a day.Matt Hancock announced on Thursday night that extra measures will be applied after an alarming increase in infection rates in some boroughs in the north of England.People from different households in Greater Manchester, parts of East Lancashire and West Yorkshire are banned from meeting each other indoors from midnight, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.Full details