Black Lives Matter - how soaps have responded

the council outlined £52m in initial savings options amid huge uncertainty over its funding arrangements for 2021, partly due to lost income as a result of the pandemic.

hereMike and Anna, who live in Mossley, Greater Manchester, are, in their own words, 'glass-half-full' people. But Mike has heart failure with HFpEF.Until he retired on health grounds two years ago, aged 66, Mike was a police community support officer, a job that he loved.Anna, his wife of 17 years, is a retired health visitor and nurse midwife.

Marcus Rashford has appeared in a Manchester suburb where he lived as a boy. The black and white portrait of the Manchester United striker has been painted on the wall of the Coffee House Café on Copson Street in Withington.

fusionstudents.consultationonline.co.uk to read about the proposals and leave feedback. Warren Rosenberg, Co-Founder of Fusion Students, said: " We are excited to be bringing forward our first development in Manchester for new student accommodation.

Manchester Airport says the government needs to  urgently come forward with a support package for the aviation industry - and introduce passenger testing or risk thousands of jobs.

Corrie has featured many Black characters.Factory machinist Shirley Armitage was the first regular Black character back in the '80s. She began a romance with supermarket manager Curly Watts.But it wasn't until last year that the ITV soap introduced its first-ever regular Black family, the Baileys, to better reflect modern day Manchester.Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod admitted their arrival was long overdue.

Andy Burnham has accused the Government of “playing poker with people’s lives” after talks about a Tier 3 deal broke down.The Greater Manchester mayor said that after days of fraught negotiations between the region’s leaders and ministers, the Government “walked away”.Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to announce new restrictions for the area in Parliament later today after Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said discussions had failed to produce a deal because leaders were “unwilling to

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Halloween and Bonfire Night. But in certain corners of Greater Manchester and Lancashire, the season is synonymous with a local culinary delight - the black pea.

Grill It Yourself kit. The G.I.Y. kits, launched in lockdown, recently won a Manchester Food and Drink Festival Award and deliver all the ingredients and instructions you need to make your own grilled cheese at home.

Rochdale has seen a 5.3pc increase, now with 37.7pc and Tameside saw a 3.4pc rise, with 34.8pc of its children now living in poverty.

herePeople would have to pay for their own tests to avoid impacting NHS capacity.MAG CEO Charlie Cornish, along with easyjet, Heathrow and Virgin Atlantic, issued a joint response describing the move as 'a step in the right direction' - but said such a scheme needed to be implemented by early November.They added: "We encourage the Government to take a lead in moving to pre-departure testing, as well as the approval of new testing technologies, as soon as possible.

Two notorious rapists from Manchester who carried out some of the 'worst and most violent' sex attacks in the country's history will find out today whether they will spend the rest of their lives in prison.The Attorney General's Office referred the 30-year-old minimum jail-terms handed to Reynhard Sinaga, 37 and Joseph McCann, 35, to the Court of Appeal as 'unduly lenient'.Senior judges will today decide (Wednesday) whether to give the pair whole life terms at a hearing in London.Sinaga, 37 the

Manchester city centre tonight. Emergency services descended on Anaconda Cut on Greengate near the banks of the River Irwell in Salford.Police said they were called to the apartment block just after 9:45pm after reports a stabbing.

They found that a lack of communication and information at handovers contributed to his death, as well as misinterpretation of instructions; a break-down in radio communication; the internal layout of the building; inadequate fire risk assessment, and acts of vandalism and criminal damage.

Manchester Evening News.“A friend of mine has told me of a few occasions, like when she was in a nightclub and music would come on and the N word will be in the lyrics.“She said there was this one particular white girl who would turn around and look at her and say the N word,“It’s stuff like that that makes you reconsider being in a place like this.”In 2019-20 there was a record number of black students enrolled at Cambridge, recent reports showed that in 2019-20 more than 200 black