Courage of the childhood sex abuse victim who comes face to face with paedophiles

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola had Manchester City fans wondering if the squad had been hit by a serious Covid-19 outbreak in his post-match interview last night.The Blues boss was asked about his team’s display in the 3-0 win at Burnley and gave a stock answer about the team playing well and how important it was to keep a clean sheet after the 5-2 home defeat by Leicester.But he then added: “We are still far away from our best because we’re not training much.

hereAs of August 13, the most up-to-date figures show a total of 301,938 people are currently receiving the benefit across the city-region, that’s around 10pc of the area’s 2.8m population.Manchester saw the biggest increase with 1674 new sign-ons in between July and August.Next came Salford with 644, then Oldham with 542 new claimants.Bolton came closely behind with 541 new applicants, then Rochdale with 471, then Tameside with 388, Stockport with 329, Wigan with 223, Bury with 203 and lastly

straight to your inboxManchester United plan to continue developing Mason Greenwood, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial as an attacking trio amid frustration in their attempts to sign Jadon Sancho.Greenwood, Rashford and Martial scored 62 goals between them last term and Greenwood, 18, became the fourth teenager to score 17 goals for United in a single season after George Best, Brian Kidd and Wayne Rooney.United earmarked the right wing as their priority position for this transfer window but

Police have launched an appeal for information on the whereabouts of a registered sex offender from south Manchester.

A paedophile who posed as a younger man online to have sexual chats with a child was caught by an undercover police officer.Steven Marchington, of Chadderton in Oldham, thought he was speaking to a teenage girl when he performed a sex act on himself over webchat.In fact it was an undercover officer who had joined the online forum for teenagers, posing as 13-year-old 'Holly'.Manchester Crown Court heard Marchington messaged the undercover officer under the username David UK, saying he was a

straight to your inbox Sky Sports issued an apology following Manchester United's 3-1 loss to Crystal Palace in regards to comments made before the match by former defender Patrice Evra. United kicked off their Premier League campaign with a loss for the first time in six years after goals from Andros Townsend and Wilfried Zaha.

The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Saturday, September 19, currently stands at:Each day the NHS in England publishes the number of deaths recorded by each hospital trust in the last 24-hour period.These are deaths where the person had tested positive for the virus or where COVID-19 was mentioned on their death certificate.NHS England's daily figures sometimes include previously uncounted deaths and they do not include deaths in care homes or

coronavirus infections, which have seen a sharp uptick.At a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday last week, Mr Johnson said the new rules would be enforceable by law.

coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday.The concern was raised as tough new Covid-19 lockdown measures were announced for parts of the UK, as cases continued to rise, and as the R number climbed above one.From Monday in England, people will be banned from meeting in groups of more than six.

coronavirus cases.The Prime Minister will use a press conference this afternoon (Wednesday) to announce the change in the law after the number of daily positive Covid-19 cases in the UK rose to almost 3,000.The legal limit on social gatherings will be reduced from 30 - which the law allowed if people were from no more than two households - to six.Groups of more than six can be broken up by police.

coronavirus cases.Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use a press conference later today (Wednesday) to announce the change in the law after the number of daily positive Covid-19 cases in the UK rose to almost 3,000.The legal limit on social gatherings will be reduced from 30 - which the law allowed if people were from no more than two households - to six.Groups of more than six can be broken up by police.The new rule will apply to gatherings indoors and outdoors - including private homes, parks,

coronavirus.

Manchester Evening News has learned.