Bid to close Traveller site where 'guns have been hidden in toilet blocks'

A motorway slip road was closed today after reports of a serious collision.

A new community for over-55s is set to be built at a former school site in Bury. Social housing provider Bolton at Home have submitted plans for 39 flats and four bungalows at the former site of the Millwood School off Fletcher Fold Road.

A sushi and steak restaurant that became a celebrity hotspot in Manchester has closed after two years. SakkuSamba on The Avenue in Spinningfields had initially announced it was closing for refurbishment earlier this month, but now it will transform into a new venue instead.

Manuel Ugarte is the latest player Manchester United have shown interest in this summer.

Manchester United have reportedly seen a bid rejected for Manuel Ugarte.

Glastonbury‘s site size with anywhere in the world.Manchester-based programmer Geoffrey Prytherch has created the tool, which allows users to enter a post code to the Glastonbury Map Overlap and see how walking across the festival site would compare to a neighbourhood walk.The approximately 900-acre Somerset site was found to trump other festivals around the world in sheer size including Coachella (642 acres), Leeds (600 acres) and Reading (100 acres). You can test out the map here.Prytherch, who emphasised that the map “is in no way affiliated with Glastonbury Festival” on his website, decided to build the interactive tool when an older, similar website “suddenly disappeared”, according to his blog.

A 21-year-old woman battling a mystery illness doesn't have diagnosis after months of crippling back pain, hair loss and extreme fatigue. For almost five months, Grace Almey has been in and out of hospital in an attempt to get to the bottom of her mystery illness.

The father of missing teenager Jay Slater has visited Tenerife as the search for his son continues.

Both Manchester United and Manchester City reportedly made last-gasp efforts to sign Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise - as Bayern Munich look to have won the race for the winger.

The people of Wigan have had their say on Rishi Sunak. Many reckon he's 'out of touch'.

Juventus have reportedly initiated talks with Manchester United for Jadon Sancho.

Travellers have been warned to follow strict hand luggage rules this summer as failure to do so is the “biggest cause of delays at airport security”. It comes after six airports were forced to do a U-turn on the 100ml limit for liquids in cabin bags.

Manchester United's hopes of forcing Everton to accept a cut-price fee for England defender Jarrad Branthwaite could be scuppered by the emergence of Arsenal as transfer rivals.

Manchester United are set up for a busy couple of months this summer as the transfer window officially opened yesterday.

Jose Mourinho is reportedly targeting a reunion with a Manchester United player this summer.

The largest car park in Prestwich is to close for a month for ‘ground investigations’ ahead of building a travel hub and multi-storey parking. From July 17, the Fairfax Road car park in the heart of Prestwich village will be shut for four weeks, meaning the loss of 168 parking spaces until the middle of August.

A man dying of cancer has delivered an impassioned plea for the public’s support for Labour in Manchester.

Tickets to Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour sold out almost immediately when they went on sale back in August last year. Since then, die hard Swifites and casual Love Story listeners alike have been clamouring to get their hands on admission to the highly-anticipated music event of the year.

The Manchester branch of Karen's Diner has closed with immediate effect. The Prestwich restaurant shut its doors today (Tuesday) for the final time.

Stockport's rivers could be saved from sewage by giving them 'protected status', the Lib Dems say. The party's candidate to be Hazel Grove's next MP, Lisa Smart, said sewage in waterways is an issue that has not been tackled by the Conservatives.