Boy, 12, brutally attacked by gang in park with footage circulating online

Work has started on a state-of-the-art £105m adult mental health inpatient unit in north Manchester.

The first photos of Wythenshawe Park as it prepares for a huge gig this weekend have been unveiled.

Paul McCartney has paid tribute to the late Michael Parkinson, calling him a “great guy” and a “good friend”.The broadcaster “passed away peacefully at home” this week (August 16) at the age of 88 after a brief illness, his family revealed. Parkinson’s TV career spanned seven decades, which saw him welcome the worlds biggest stars to the studio including Muhammad Ali, Elton John, Madonna and many more.He also appears on the album cover of Wings‘ ‘Band On The Run’ as an escaped convict, and was a personal friend of McCartney’s.Taking to Twitter yesterday (August 19), McCartney wrote of Parkinson: “I first met Michael Parkinson in Liverpool when he and his team came to see us at the Cavern Club.

Noel Gallagher makes a huge Manchester homecoming on the August bank holiday weekend at Wythenshawe Park. It will be Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' biggest ever UK outdoor headline gig.

The government is funding the creation of 900 beds to help the NHS cope with winter pressures - but nothing has been allocated to any hospitals in Greater Manchester.

There have been scenes of horror on the streets of Greater Manchester this week, with three people killed in road collisions, a boy shot in the chest and a man 'cut with a weapon' outside a pub.

Police have issued an update after a cyclist was killed in a crash with a HGV near the Trafford Centre on Thursday evening (August 10).

A gang of men launched a violent attack and robbed an Audi during a shocking incident which left one victim in hospital. Police were called to reports that a group of men had attacked other men, who had been in a grey Audi A3.

The teenager who was shot at point-blank range in the chest in Stretford on Thursday was ‘attacked by approximately 14 males’, police have said.

Police are appealing for more information after a woman was approached by a man with a knife and sexually assaulted in an Oldham park.

Jamie Webster has shared details of a huge gig at Sefton Park, and announced a new album ‘10 For The People’.The two new announcements come following the singer-songwriter’s recent slot at this year’s Glastonbury and TRNSMT festivals, and two outdoor shows in Liverpool, which saw him play to a crowd of 24,000 people.Now, the 29-year-old has announced yet another Liverpool date – a mammoth appearance at the city’s Sefton Park. The gig is set to take place on July 12, 2024 and will follow on from his previously announced run of 2023 UK tour dates.Set to kick off in November with two dates at Glasgow’s O2 Academy (9 and 11), Webster will then make stops in Bristol, Sheffield, and London, before playing two sold-out back-to-back shows at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on November 17 and 18.

A mother and her two children were left traumatised after a gang of thugs smashed their way into her home.

The Cheetham Hill Gang started small. In the early days petty theft, handbag snatching and robbing shops was their bread and butter.

Terrifying footage shows the moments a devastating fire tore through a house in Bury in the early hours of Sunday morning.

An influencer issued a grovelling apology after her dog mauled two people following a drink-fuelled party at an Airbnb apartment. Holly Snelgar’s dog Kaiser, an English pit bull, bit Jennie Lawrenson on three occasions as she went to investigate a disturbance at the serviced apartment in Manchester city centre, which she had rented to Snelgar and some friends.

A gang which smuggled tonnes of drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and ketamine , into the UK worth more than £135million posing as a furniture removal firm have been jailed. A Manchester man involved in the operation has been jailed for 27-years.

A ruthless teenage gang stole £4million worth of high-value vehicles in a sickening 10-month crime wave.

Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds aimed a sly dig at Manchester United's Nathan Bishop after the goalkeeper's incident with Paul Mullin in the pre-season friendly.

Manchester United are unhappy with Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson’s comments about goalkeeper Nathan Bishop.

A community has been rocked after a balaclava-clad gang descended with weapons before smashing up a block of flats. Neighbours living near The Meadows in Alkrington Moss, Middleton, heard 'consecutive bangs' while windows were shattered.