Firefighters battle huge blaze at builders merchant in Stockport

direct to your inbox Firefighters tackled a blaze at a high-rise building in Manchester city centre this morning.

direct to your inboxResidents were evacuated and the M67 motorway had to be closed following a huge warehouse fire in Tameside on Sunday afternoon. At the peak of the blaze more than 125 firefighters were scrambled to tackle an enormous fire at a three-storey self-storage warehouse in Denton, causing a huge plume of smoke which could be seen all across Greater Manchester.

direct to your inboxCampaigners have won a High Court battle against Manchester council’s plans to build a 440-space temporary car park near a primary school.Trees Not Cars sought a judicial review of the decision taken in October 2019 by the planning committee to keep parking facilities at the former Central Retail Park in Ancoats for two years - months after the council declared a climate emergency.Town hall leaders hoped the car park would generate short-term income while plans to redevelop

Not that any of this matters to Baron-Gracie, from Preston, who has penned an album that offers guidance and support aplenty to fans - Pale Waves enjoy a strong teenage and young-adult following - who support the band devoutly.

direct to your inboxThe delay in getting firefighters to the Manchester Arena bomb attack meant 'vital assistance to the dying was denied them', the inquiry into the atrocity has heard.Regular fire engines loaded with one stretcher each and specialist fire service vehicles each with five stretchers, as well as firefighters trained in treating blast injuries, took two hours to get to the Arena after Salman Abedi detonated a huge bomb in his backpack as mainly young concert-goers were leaving an

direct to your inboxPaddy Doherty was in a reflective mood as he returned home from hospital after battling Covid-19.The My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star from Manchester headed to the cemetery on Sunday morning to pay homage to a late friend John Rooney and his family.Paddy raised a toast to the Rooneys with a bottle of Becks beer as he filmed their final resting places.Paying homage to John, who died in 2019 aged 62, he said: "Poor John Rooney.

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Hulme, told her partner Tony Tulloch she was going into town to do some shopping that morning.She was spotted at the shopping centre car park on High Street before falling to her death.Melanie, who leaves behind a son and a daughter, had been struggling with mental health issues for several years.She was sectioned under the Mental Health Act just months before her death after battling Schizoaffective disorder.An inquest into her death at Manchester Coroners' Court heard she was discharged from a

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direct to your inboxIt was March 2020 and Tony Lloyd had returned home from London as the coronavirus pandemic took hold and the country was ordered to avoid 'all unnecessary social contact'.Just a few days later the Prime Minister would declare what, at the time, was an almost unthinkable national lockdown, with a strict ‘stay at home' message.The 70-year-old Rochdale MP had not been feeling 100 per cent, in the days leading up to the announcement that put Parliament - and much of the rest of

direct to your inboxResidents at a block of flats have spoken of the moment they were evacuated from their homes as part of a major investigation into organised crime - which has seen suspected guns and grenades seized and a man pinned down in the street by armed cops.Police, backed by bomb disposal officers, swooped on Milton Close in Stretford on Friday night (January 29).