Best restaurant in the north raises menu price to £250 blaming 'cost of living crisis'

Controversial plans to open a Hooters restaurant and bar - where scantily-clad young women will serve customers - at Salford Quays have been given the go-ahead. The decision flies in the face of fierce local opposition, including from both the Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.

A popular pizzeria has announced the opening of three more restaurants in Manchester. Franco Manca will be opening it's doors to customer at it's brand new King Street venue in Manchester today (June 13) with The Trafford Centre and Didsbury restaurants following shortly after.

Diners at Gino D’Acampo’s Italian restaurant - Luciano in Alderley Edge - were evacuated after a fire broke out. Crews from Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to the Wilmslow Road eatery at 6.21pm this evening (Saturday).

This Manchester venue has just been named the Best Vegetarian Restaurant in the north at a national awards ceremony - fresh from a move to a stunning new home in the city centre. The Allotment vegan restaurant has been winning rave reviews and an army of admirers since first opening on Lloyd Street four years ago.

A portion of fish and chips now costs £12 in some areas of the UK thanks to the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Plans have been submitted to build a new industrial and warehousing development spanning seven acres in Trafford Park which is estimated to be worth £30 million.

Johnny Depp has been spotted in Birmingham - ahead of an expected performance at the Symphony Hall tonight. The star has been seen on tour across the UK with his long time friend Jeff Beck in recent days. Beck is performing at the Symphony Hall tonight - and it looks even more likely Depp will join him after he was spotted at a Birmingham restaurant on Sunday evening.

Ashanti turned up to a Manchester burger restaurant after her AO Arena gig on Thursday (June 2) and performed a dance routine in front of customers and fans.The R&B icon, who had played in the city hours before, was still wearing her gig outfit when she visited Archie’s at Manchester Piccadilly and broke into dance.Ashanti posted videos to her TikTok account of her and her backing dancers performing a short routine inside the burger bar that frequently attracts celebrities.As Manchester Evening News reports, music figures including Rita Ora and The Game, and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr have visited the restaurant previously.The Grammy Award-winning singer is in the middle of a world tour alongside fellow US stars Trey Songz and Mario.Ashanti stuns burger fans at Archie's in Manchester with dazzling late-night appearancehttps://t.co/YJ24mZ1qjS— CityLife Manchester (@CityLifeManc) June 5, 2022She’s perhaps best known for early ’00s songs ‘What’s Luv’ with Fat Joe and ‘Always On Time’ with Ja Rule. Recently, her song ‘Rock Wit U’ was sampled by Manchester rapper Aitch on his single ‘Baby’.

Manchester United prospect Amad has furiously denied reports that claimed he does not want to play for the Ivory Coast national team and has refused call-ups.

Visitors were left stunned after a man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair threw a cake at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting was fortunately protected by glass, which was left with a smear of white cream after the attack on Sunday.

Manchester’s highly-anticipated new park has taken another step forward this month. Mayfield Park will be the city centre’s first new park in more than 100 years.

The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has welcomed a new plan to stamp out racism among police forces in the UK. Police chiefs have said they are 'ashamed' of racism within their ranks, as they set out the Police Race Action plan - vowing that the service will become an 'institutionally anti-racist organisation.'

With festival season now well underway, revellers were out in force to party under gorgeous sunny skies in Warrington with the return of the Neighbourhood Weekender. The festival, held at Victoria Park in the Cheshire town is in its fourth year and returned after the enforced lockdown break with its biggest-ever line-up playing to crowds of thousands.

Limp Bizkit‘s Wisconsin gig on Sunday (May 22), as the band were joined on stage by a young fan who helped them perform ‘Break Stuff’.The nu-metal icons are currently touring North America in support of recent album ‘Still Sucks’, which was released last October and featured lead single ‘Dad Vibes’.During the closing moments of their show at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Limp Bizkit invited support acts Yung Gravy, Dying Wish and Wargasm to the stage in order for them to receive their props from the crowd.Before leaving the stage, frontman Durst told the audience: “I promised this young man a little favour,” pointing to a young boy on the stage. The two then proceeded to deliver an explosive rendition of ‘Break Stuff’, taken from the band’s 1999 album ‘Significant Other’.Keeping up with Durst throughout, the young fan not only earned the respect of the band but received mountains of applause from the crowd.

From the shock of sudden redundancy in a cost of living crisis, to the excitement of a first step on the career ladder. Hundreds answered the call from Manchester Airport at a careers fair in Wythenshawe today (May 24) - each with their own reasons for hunting a new job.