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A teenage boy has been arrested after a pursuit ended with a police car landing on its roof following a knife-point car-jacking.The 15-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of robbery and dangerous driving after the incident in Tameside yesterday evening (Monday).

where tighter restrictions have been reintroduced in the borough after infection rates surged.

infection rates in Bolton are still too high to allow such businesses and services to reopen.

but the government decided to keep the restrictions in place at the last minute following a surge in cases.Stricter restrictions that prevent the mixing of different households both indoors and outdoors will remain in Oldham.However, casinos, skating rinks, conference centres and the other venues and services listed above will be allowed to reopen in Oldham along with other boroughs of Greater Manchester.Stockport and Wigan remain the only two boroughs in Greater Manchester to have their local

A life-sized cake of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy has been created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the BBC’s Pride And Prejudice mini-series.

Schools across England are due to reopen on Tuesday but the pandemic means that it will be very different for returning pupils.In Blue Coat school, an oversubscribed secondary school in Oldham town centre, the main challenge has been around the logistics of how to separate and keep safe its 1,750 pupils and 150 staff. Maximising space has been the biggest issue for leaders preparing for all pupils to return to the Egerton Street academy on September 1.Gone are the days of specialised department

remain in place in Oldham - which still has the highest infection rate in the region.Residents there can no longer socialise with anyone outside their household and can only use public transport if essential.Wigan, which has the lowest infection rate, remains lifted out of the increased measures.Meanwhile Salford, Bury, Manchester, Tameside and Rochdale all remain in local lockdown.Residents in these areas must continue to adhere to the rules which prohibit two households from meeting indoors or

Tougher restrictions which ban people from socialising with anyone they don’t live with are to remain in place for a further week in Oldham, the government has confirmed.The number of new coronavirus cases in the borough is now on a downward trend after spiking dramatically in the first week of August.The infection rate had climbed to 108 per 100,000 people, with 266 cases recorded in the seven days to August 11.Now the rate has now more than halved, down to 51.9 for the week ending August 24,

Manchester Evening New that the borough will no longer be subject to the extra regulations which have applied to the region for the past month.The government is yet to confirm when the change will come into effect.It means people living in the borough will once again be allowed to socialise in groups of up to two households indoors.They will also be able to stay overnight at somebody else’s home - but must try to social distance.The relaxation means they can also book close contact services such

Greater Manchester now has the lowest number of coronavirus cases since the end of July.There were 788 positive tests for the virus across all ten boroughs in the week ending August 24, the lowest number since July 28.Rates are calculated up to three days ago because of the delay in reporting cases.The infection rate is continuing to fall in Oldham, Rochdale, Salford and Bolton, with the number of cases falling in seven of the region's boroughs.Cases are still rising in Wigan, with an extra 10

reviewed the blanket restrictions across the whole of the region and decided to make two key changes.

Manchester Evening News."At the end of the day, you can sit in a pub close to people you don't know, but you can't sit in a pub close to people you do know. It's been tough not being able to see family."What concerns me the most is how it's going to affect schools reopening.

has announced tighter restrictions in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn, while releasing Wigan, Darwen and Rossendale from current measures. Birmingham and Northampton have been added to the government's watch list following an increase in cases.

in Wigan are to be released from the existing Greater Manchester restrictions tonight, it is understood. Residents won't have to adhere to the stricter coronavirus regulations which will still be in place across the region's other nine boroughs.

coronavirus rates. Every other borough will remain subject to the original rules imposed by the government at the end of July.In Oldham, residents will now also be advised only to use public transport for essential travel - largely for work and school.They'll also be told not to socialise with other households anywhere.

Oldham had been teetering on the brink of full Leicester-style lockdown due to high infection rates, but after targeted testing and other measures brought numbers down significantly in the space of a week, Matt Hancock yesterday agreed that it would not be necessary.But what are the new measures that have been announced?It is understood people in Oldham will be told not to socialise with other households anywhere, a stricter message than the present rules, which had still allowed people to meet