Drink driver sped down WRONG side of road to escape police chase before crash

Washington Post saying Martin’s signature charm was ‘misapplied’ as the voice of the masses and Vulture saying his everyman was ‘too everyman’. View this post on InstagramIn the role that made Noel Coward an overnight star in the 1920s, Will Young was thought to be a shoo-in, or at least that his casting would raise the profile of the show. ‘Vortex,’ the convoluted family–cum-romance drama which follows the fortunes of a mother and son in post-WW1 Britain, was onstage at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, six years after Young won Pop Idol in the UK.

Pictures show the scene after a driver smashed their car into a barrier near the Trafford Centre. The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon (April 13).

She’s the loud, proud and larger-than-life Essex girl who isn’t afraid to speak her mind, and former The Only Way is Essex star Gemma Collins did just that on Tuesday as she slammed her critics who said she only got a part in the UK tour of Chicago: The Musical because of who she is - ‘the GC’. Gemma, 41, is due to make her debut as Mama Morton in Chicago: The Musical, which kicks off in Sunderland on May 31 and will head to Cardiff, Blackpool, Sheffield and Norwich, before ending in Oxford on July 23.

A drug dealer was caught on a police dash cam driving like a maniac in unbelievable footage. Zach Trott, 26, led police into the Tesco car park in Salford, appearing to be blocked in by them and some bollards.

David Beckham was spotted relaxing with friends on his super yacht in Miami, Florida, days ahead of son Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding to Nicola Peltz.The eldest son of David and his wife Victoria Beckham is due to get married on Saturday in front of an array of celebrity guests as well as close friends and family, and preparations are well under way. Father of the groom-to-be David hasn't appeared stressed in the lead up to his son’s big day though, as he was seen sitting atop his luxury yacht named Seven, which is the middle name of his daughter Harper Beckham.

A family discovered their 12-year-old girl had a brain tumour after a routine check-up at Specsavers. Opticians discovered swelling behind schoolgirl Grace Kelly's eyes in August last year.

Gemma Collins wowed as she left the Opera House theatre following the opening night of her one-woman show. The former The Only Way Is Essex star brought the first show of her GC's Big Night Out tour to Manchester.

Terrifying CCTV footage caught the moment two men armed with a machete ambushed a cash-in-transit guard inside a newsagents. Gordon Hopkins and Anthony Hughes targeted the employee in an early morning attack after he entered Haslingden News in Rossendale to fill the cash machine last September.

Victoria Beckham was spotted topping up her tan while husband David Beckham was seen with a suit, as the family prepare to attend the wedding of Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz.The couple’s eldest son Brooklyn, 23, is set to marry Nicola Peltz, 27, in the actress’ family mansion in Palm Beach, Florida this Saturday in a ceremony reported to have cost £3million.The Beckhams were spotted on their £5million superyacht ahead of the big day in Miami this weekend, after Brooklyn and Nicola allegedly signed a prenup to protect her family’s estimated £1.3billion fortune. Victoria, 47, wore a deep brown minidress under a cropped black jacket as she left the family's yacht, which is affectionately called Seven as a nod to husband David’s old shirt number when he played for Manchester United.

The current invasion of Ukraine by Russia with its appalling loss of life and destruction of cities seems steeped in another era. From the end of the Second World War until 1991 a Cold War, existed between the US and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, in the Eastern and Western Blocs.

Armed police seized drugs, a stolen car and cash during the latest raids in an operation into the criminal use of encrypted mobile phones. Two alleged class A drug traffickers, aged 35 and 38, were also arrested during the operation in Oldham and Rochdale at 5am today.

Police in Salford made an arrest on Monday evening (March 28) after a vehicle pursuit ended in a crash. Traffic officers said a white Ford Fiesta "made off" from a special response team on Madamswood Road in Little Hulton.

Real Housewives of Cheshire star Dawn Ward has been cleared of two counts of racially aggravated harassment, one count of assault and possession of cocaine after she was arrested in October 2019.The reality star, 48, who is married to former footballer Ashley Ward, broke down into tears as the verdict was announced on Friday 25 March. Describing the ordeal as "three years of hell", she told the jury: "Thank you.Thank you so much, thank you from the bottom of my heart.” Dawn had been accused of using "anti-Semitic" language during an exchange with Jewish brothers Jake and Sam Jacobs at Euston Station at the time.

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with a 'severe head injury' after a crash in Trafford.