Evacuation of thousands from Piccadilly was due to "box of batteries" being dumped in bin by an elderly lady

had been resisted by councillors for months. Concerns were raised around the ‘untested’ concept of co-living, where residents have their own living space and bathroom but share communal areas like kitchens and dining space.

Manchester Evening News.Just after midnight, residents of Rutland Road in Tyldesley saw the blaze beginning and rushed over to alert the elderly man to the blaze.The group then helped to get him out of the house through the front door as flames leapt up one wall. The fire is believed to have started outside the man's home, said the victim's son, melting wheelie bins before burning down his shed and fence.

Fairfield General Hospital this morning. Crews were called to the scene after staff noticed smoke coming from a café in the Broad Oak Suite at around 9.30am on Sunday (September 27).A flood in the ceiling of the room had spread to electrics nearby.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletterYou can sign up very simply by following the instructions hereThe site was evacuated to allow hospital services to continue.

hereA series of arrests and drug seizures were made across the north.'County lines' is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries and usually by children or vulnerable people who are coerced into it by gangs.The 'county line' is the mobile phone line used to take orders of drugs.Arrests were made in Preston, Sheffield, Leeds and Lancaster.BTP said a new taskforce aimed to tackle drugs on the railway network, and protect

a fifth of the region's schools (247) have had confirmed cases - among either pupils, staff or both. At one secondary - Philips High in Whitefield, Bury - there have been 18 positive tests and the whole of Year 11 has been sent home.

hereCups will be turned into upcycled reusable cups and other products including tissue and packaging, reducing waste and encouraging a 'circular economy', Network Rail said.The initiative is a partnership with environmental charity Hubbub and waste provider, Interserve.The YouGov study, commissioned by Network Rail, found consumers want to recycle cups, but often do not know how, they said.Only three in 10 adults who purchase a coffee while travelling reported using a bin specifically designed

Manchester Evening News brings the total to 247. While some of those affected have now returned to class, we have not been alerted to every bubble closure, so the true figure is expected to be even higher.

Sandbar saying that the reduced hours, coupled with all the other measures it has had to introduce, would 'destroy' it as a business. Becky Wilkes, senior sales and marketing manager at 20 Stories, said: "It's ridiculous that hospitality's being targeted like this.

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new helpline has been set up by the government to make it easier for settings to get advice on what steps to take following a positive case.

Manchester Evening News that if there is a positive case at their child's school, they 'have a right to know'. Among the cases confirmed today is the closure of an entire primary school in Oldham, the first confirmed shutdown in Greater Manchester.

struggling to access tests, it's causing even further disruption and delay. At some high schools hundreds of pupils are being affected as whole year bubbles are sent home following a positive test.Oasis Academy Oldham has confirmed that students in Year 10 and 11 are self-isolating for the next fortnight and teachers will be supporting their learning at home.

we reported how the number of schools with confirmed cases had risen to more than 65.

Manchester Evening News can reveal.Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes and workplaces in Hazel Grove.Police were called to reports that a suspicious item had been found at a property on Chester Road at around 4.15pm on Thursday, September 10.Law firm O'Neill Patient Solicitors confirmed they were contacted by GMP and told someone in its building had taken receipt of a package the police believed contained a 'suspicious item'.The firm's headquarters are on Chester Road.The law firm

here"What you did was despicable."Your victims were entitled to be left to live their lives in peace - and to be treated with respect."But you sought to defraud them, and intimidated one of them."How low can a person get?"Manchester Crown Court heard that Ward, from Clayton, knocked on the front door of a house in Blackley, where a woman had lived alone for 10 years after her husband had passed away.At about 11.30am on Sunday, June 7, Ward told her he had been doing some work on guttering next

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15 schools had sent children home - including four high schools and 11 primaries.Now a further 17 have alerted parents to positive cases, with the exact number expected to be even higher.The sizes of school bubbles that pupils have been put into dictates how many children are needing to self-isolate.