Citizens Advice centres see calls almost double with parents worried about school places

direct to your inboxA glimmer of hope in these dark days.Photos of people grinning from ear to ear under their masks while getting their coronavirus vaccines have been shared across Greater Manchester.The cheerful images represent hope following a tough year.A reminder that better days will come and one day things will get back to normal.Here are just some of the wonderful images that have been popping up on social media during the mass vaccination roll-out.GP Bev Matta from Westhoughton Primary

direct to your inboxStaff at the RAC call centre in Trafford are being tested for coronavirus after an increase in cases at the site, it's been revealed. The motoring services company confirmed to the Manchester Evening News it was working with Trafford Council and Public Heath England in relation to its offices on Thomas Street in Stretford.

direct to your inbox The River Irwell has burst its banks in Manchester city centre as Storm Christoph continues to batter the region. Pictures shared with the Manchester Evening News show water levels are extremely high in the Castlefield area with parts of the riverside pathway flooded.

direct to your inboxDetectives are investigating a “shockingly dangerous and reckless” drive by shooting, which happened in the middle of the day.Shots were fired on Briscoe Lane, in Newton Heath, Manchester, just before 1.45pm on Tuesday afternoon (January 19).

Rochdale town centre. Emergency services rushed to the scene on Yorkshire Street at around 9.10am this morning (Monday).

straight to your inbox every day for freeJanuary seems to be a month of anniversaries for Manchester United. A year since the last domestic defeat on the road, a year since their last trip to Liverpool and a year since the arrival of Bruno Fernandes.But Sunday's trip to Anfield falls on the first anniversary of another significant moment.

direct to your inboxA sports centre in south Manchester is being transformed into a coronavirus vaccine centre - one of the first in the region to be led by a local pharmacy.From Monday (January 18) jabs will be administered at Whalley Range Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club on Kingsbrook Road. The service is being provided by local pharmacy group Kapoor Pharmacy Services (KPS), which runs two chemists in Whalley Range and Chorlton as well as one in Rochdale.

direct to your inboxMajor plans to transform Manchester city centre’s landmark Debenhams building have been recommended for approval by council bosses. The Rylands building on Market Street is for an extensive makeover which will see it restored to its original Art Deco glory both inside and outside.

Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kidsParents are being reminded not to miss the deadline for primary school applications for children starting this September.Families across Greater MAnchester have until tomorrow, Friday, January 15, to submit their application to their local authority.If parents fail to apply, their child could miss out on a school place and with families dealing with so many issues and home

direct to your inboxA baby girl at the centre of a murder investigation has been named as Felicity May Harvey.Two-week-old Felicity died in hospital on Monday (January 11).She was taken to hospital by paramedics on Friday (January 8) after the ambulance service was called to an address on Stirling Place at 2.34pm that day.Officers were called out by hospital staff who had 'concern for a baby', just before 6.30pm on Friday (January 8), Greater Manchester Police said.The baby girl sadly passed

direct to your inboxManchester council is planning to spend £31m on repairing and refurbishing the city’s Aquatics Centre in order to save it from closure. The flagship facility, known as MAC, opened in 2000 and played a major part in Manchester’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games two years later.

'needlessly' taking up spaces after some key workers said they'd been refused places for their children, despite working in schools and for the NHS.

direct to your inboxThis is the first look inside Greater Manchester's mass coronavirus vaccination centre ahead of its opening on Monday.The site, at the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre at the Etihad Campus, has undergone a remarkable transformation as this exclusive footage provided by the NHS shows.It's one of seven vaccination centres being launched in England next week.Initially it will be open to people over 80 and healthcare staff by appointment only.Manchester's director of public

direct to your inbox The old Littlewoods distribution centre in Oldham - once the town's biggest private employer and one of the largest warehouses in the world - is to close its doors today for the final time. At the height of operations the warehouse, which dominates the skyline in Shaw, once employed more than 1,200 staff.

Manchester Evening Newsreported yesterday how some key workers said they'd been refused places for their children, despite working in schools and for the NHS. Under the rules set out by the government, only one parent needs to be a critical worker for a child to qualify for a place.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United youngster Shola Shoretire has revealed the advice he was given from teammate Mason Greenwood.Both players are products of United's famed youth academy.