How one furloughed couple built a tiki bar in their Stockport garden over a few days in lockdown

shut last week under existing town hall licensing procedures after being found to be operating as a nightclub against the current Covid restrictions. The M.E.N. has contacted the bar for comment.

All Star Lanes, the bowling alley bar in the heart of Manchester city centre, has announced its immediate closure.The venue at the Great Northern Warehouse had managed to reopen as a bar and restaurant after lockdown restrictions were eased, but had been unable to resume its bowling sessions under the latest government guidelines.The American-style diner and tenpin lanes opened in 2013 and once hosted Rihanna and Drake after Drake's show at Manchester Arena, as well as welcoming Lady Gaga and

The Midland Hotel in Manchester has stunned a local family with a generous act of kindness.Staff from the luxury hotel recreated its legendary breakfast - complete with crockery and a personal chef - for a 60th wedding anniversary, free of charge.The couple in question, Josephine and Ted Betts, have waited almost six decades to get their Midland breakfast after oversleeping on their wedding night all those years ago.Josephine's father had saved up for months to treat the pair to an overnight

hereCoun O’Rourke echoed Mr Taylor’s comments in favour of the scheme.He said: “It is a massively positive scheme for the vast majority of residents that will help offset CO2 and also protect that piece of land from other more intrusive variations of development on that site."A solar farm is not a factory, it will not be houses, it will be a solar farm.”However he acknowledged some residents would have their standard of living affected and called for residents to be consulted and kept fully

Speaking to the Manchester Evening News he said:“It will be an opportunity to let off some steam, and get out the house really, we really want to make a positive impact on people’s mental health right now.

Wigan in lockdown an “unacceptable approach”. The mayor of Greater Manchester took to Twitter this evening after Bury Conservatives revealed they had written a letter to Matt Hancock regarding lockdown measures today.

effective from Friday following a spike in coronavirus cases in the region.But, as the Manchester Evening News reported, the laws needed to make the rules legally enforceable weren't implemented at the same time.It's only today, five days after the restrictions were introduced, that the legislation has finally been put in place.Guidance published on Friday stated that it would be against the law for people from different households to meet in a private home or garden, unless they are part of a

Stockport is to get a £17m new secondary school for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).The much-needed school will be built on the vacant Orrishmere Primary School site, in Cheadle Hulme, and cater for up to 133 pupils.Pencilled in to open in 2022, it will be a free school run by Prospere Learning Trust, which has four other schools in south Manchester.Stockport does not currently have enough SEND places, meaning that each year many children are sent out-of-borough

announced amid much confusion late last night.Different households must also not meet ‘indoors’ at pubs, bars and restaurants under the tighter restrictions.The new rules also apply to East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire.William Wragg, MP for the Hazel Grove, took to Twitter to voice his displeasure over Greater Manchester being treated as ‘one homogeneous area’, adding ‘to treat all 10 boroughs the same is not the right approach’.His constituency lies within Stockport which, while

The government has now published more details, clearing up some of the confusion. People in the affected areas will not be permitted to mix with other households - apart from those in their support bubbles - in private homes OR gardens.

People won't be able to have visitors in their home OR garden, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has said - based on his understanding of the government's confusing local lockdown annoucement.Residents across the region will be able to go to the pub, but they will have to stay within their household or bubble, as far as he understands, Mr Burnham added.Openings - such as bowling alleys and casinos - due on August 1 will be put on hold.Mr Burnham said he understands 'everything else remains

Manchester Evening News a bout the coronavirus lockdown while out shopping in Stockport with his wife and grandchildren. The borough saw a spike in COVID-19 cases over the weekend, with the number of young adults testing positive for the virus emerging as a 'growing concern'.

hereUnlike Oldham, Stockport's infection rate has been consistently among the lowest in Greater Manchester since Andy Burnham began giving weekly updates.But the council says that, while the borough's infection rate continues to be ‘well below’ many other areas, there has been a noticeable rise in the number of cases within the 18 to 25 age group.Public health bosses admit this is a ‘growing concern’, although it does not appear to be limited to any particular district or neighbourhood.People