Demolition of Piccadilly Gardens' hated 'Berlin Wall' will start in days, council confirms

hereNorthern are conveying passengers between Manchester Piccadilly and Leeds in both directions until further notice, Avanti West Coast said.The operator said the following trains have been cancelled:11:40 London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly, due 13:4611:55 Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston, due 14:0612:20 London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly, due 14:3512:40 London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly, due 14:4612:55 Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston, due 15:07No further details have

Emiliano De Pablos Stefan Kloos’ Rise and Shine World Sales agency has picked up all world rights excluding The Netherlands to Sergej Kreso’s musical documentary “Here We Move Here We Groove.”Making its world premiere as part of IDFA’s Dutch Competition, “Here We Move,” produced by Amsterdam-based Doxy Films, represents a stirring and hopeful musical story about building bridges via music.It follows DJ Robert Soko, who fled from the war in Yugoslavia as a teenager, and used Western music and

hereA chunk of the wall however has been preserved.

mounting tensions between Greater Manchester leaders and the government over lockdown measures.

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Manchester's Finest showed a huge pile of rubble on the floor the next morning. Council bosses say it's a 'new beginning' for the Gardens.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe Berlin Film Festival is still planning a physical event in February but will reduce its lineup in the face of COVID-19 restrictions, the festival has confirmed.The event, which is due to run February 11-21, has said it is “too early to consider cancellation”.Tickets for screenings will have to be pre-booked and capacity in cinemas will be reduced by 45-50% in order to abide by social distancing rules.The festival confirmed to us today that the Competition

A luxury £27m four-star hotel backed by former Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo has been given the go ahead by city planners.The 151-room hotel near Piccadilly Gardens is a joint venture between the footballer and Portuguese hoteliers Pestana, and will be part of the CR7 brand when it opens in 2023.A ground floor bar, cafe, basement gym and roof terrace are proposed over 11 floors, while the area outside the hotel will also be improved with widened pavements and new trees.It will take

Openshaw, began shouting and swearing at the officer’s before laughing in their faces and breaking the 2m distance, Manchester Magistrates Court heard.

Naman Ramachandran The annual 16 Days 16 Films short film competition has revealed a heavyweight jury including James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, Emmy-winning actor Anna Friel (“Marcella”) and award-winning “Blue Story” producer Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor.This jury also includes actor and political activist Ashley Judd (“Berlin Station”), directors Phyllida Lloyd (“Herself”) and Sarah Gavron (“Rocks”), writer Abi Morgan (“Suffragette”), actor Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac”), actress and producer

Manchester Evening News readers found  three out of four people 'hated' the gardens  , listing a string of gripes about the wall, crime levels and general dreariness. Two years later more than 20,000 people signed an M.E.N.

hoping to build the 150-bedroom ‘high end lifestyle’ hotel on the corner of Piccadilly and Newton Street. Pestana CR7 Manchester, if backed by Manchester council’s planning committee, would become the seventh Pestana branded hotel in the world.But it will be the first to carry Ronaldo’s initials, and the iconic number he first wore as a United player, outside of his native Portugal.

Manchester Evening News has been contacted by staff concerned about a 'lack of communication and support' from Avanti management during the outbreak.But Dave Whitehouse, safety and security director at Avanti West Coast, said: "We’re providing support for all of our people who have tested positive for Covid-19 and those self-isolating at home."We’ve been in regular contact; providing advice and guidance as well as stringently following Government guidelines.

No trains are running between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield after a train derailed.Major disruption is expected on services through Sheffield until the end of the day, National Rail Enquiries warn.A freight train derailed just north of Sheffield, resulting in all lines through the South Yorkshire city being blocked.Transport for Greater Manchester tweeted about the incident, saying: "Due to a derailment at Sheffield there are no rail services between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield in

After months of quarantine with husband and singer Nick Jonas, Jonas has been busy as a bee! The actress was recently seen in Berlin. Although the actress did not spill the beans about her work whereabouts, reports suggested she was in Germany to film The Matrix 4.

Thomas Vinterberg's Danish crowd-pleaser Another Round, Burhan Qurbani's German epic Berlin Alexanderplatz and Jan Komasa's Oscar-nominated Polish drama Corpus Christi are among the nominees for best European film at the 2020 European Film Awards.