Hundreds of children to get Covid vaccine tests as doctors investigate how well the jab works in young people

direct to your inboxMore than 30 new Covid-19 cases have been found in an area of north Manchester where a new strain of the virus was discovered. The cases were discovered as part of a mass testing programme to contain the further spread of the virus in Moston and Harpurhey, which is being wound down today (March 3).

direct to your inboxRapid coronavirus testing is being rolled out to anyone in Manchester unable to work from home and who have no access to asymptomatic testing at their workplace.From today (March 2) existing testing sites will be used as part of continued efforts to prevent Covid-19 from being spread by people who are unaware that they have the virus.Manchester council says around one in three people can have Covid-19 without knowing it.Testing will be offered on a twice-weekly basis from

direct to your inboxHundreds of bus drivers are on strike over changes to their pay and conditions at a Manchester depot. Around 400 Go North West staff have walked out over plans to change their contracts, a policy the Unite union is describing as 'fire and rehire'.

direct to your inboxStories involving lions, cats and mice are being used to introduce children aged as young as five to concepts around terrorism, the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena concert bombing was told.A book called 'Mog is Coming' has been devised by an award-winning charity telling the story of a cat on the loose in a school of mice.Another story used as an educational aid involves a circus lion entering a school.They were designed 'to communicate important issues around run,

Follow this link and select My Oldham News.

straight to your inbox every day for freeIn his 13 years at Manchester United Luke Giverin's greatest moment came at the Etihad.Born in Salford and raised in a family of Reds, Giverin took particular satisfaction in scoring United's second goal in a 2-0 win over City in the Manchester Senior Cup final in May 2012.His injury-time goal secured victory and as he ran off to celebrate he was pulled to the ground by Paul Pogba and mobbed by his teammates.Rather than being the start of something,

direct to your inboxChildren as young as three years old are caring for relatives in Greater Manchester.Young carers have been contending with various lockdown restrictions on top of collecting prescriptions, cleaning homes, preparing meals, looking after younger siblings and having to grow up incredibly quickly this year.One group is pushing to raise awareness of young carer’s experiences and offer children a ‘safe space’ to have fun, be themselves and forget about their responsibilities for a

Moston.He initially tried to hide his mobile phone and later tried to delete evidence, Manchester Crown Court heard.Sentencing Ingham, 31, Recorder Anthony O’Donohoe said: “These are not just virtual images on the internet.

direct to your inboxBus and taxi drivers and teachers over the age of 50 should be given Covid jabs at the half-empty mass vaccination centre at the Etihad, say local leaders.Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has repeated calls on the government to give local authorities greater flexibility over how to use spare capacity at the site.Covid jabs are said to be ‘sitting in fridges’ as people belonging to the four groups on the government's vaccine priority list are waiting to be called

direct to your inboxKate Ferdinand says she would take 'huge offence' to any claims she loved her baby son more than her three step-children.The 29-year-old and husband Rio Ferdinand welcomes their first child, Cree, into the world in December.Since meeting and then marrying the former Manchester United star in 2019, Kate has been step-mum to Rio's three children with late wife Rebecca.In an Instagram Q&A, the former reality star admitted that she was asked about "a lot" about whether she loves

direct to your inboxHundreds of fines have been handed out for Covid breaches in Greater Manchester in the last week - including at weddings, house parties and Manchester Airport.Illegal barber shops in garden sheds, unlicensed backroom bars and crowded premises with no social distancing have been discovered during enforcement visits.The number of Covid-related incidents reported to police rose by almost a quarter in the last week as the half-term and a change in weather has seen more people

direct to your inboxA Coronation Street actress has released a personal video message encouraging Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities across Greater Manchester to take up the Covid-19 vaccine.Shelley King, who is of Indian heritage, has played Yasmeen Nazir on the ITV soap since 2014, and received her first Covid jab earlier this month.A recent report by the Royal Society for Public Health found that 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people asked said they would take a

Are you worried about the reopening of schools? Will you be happy to send your child back if they reopen on March 8? Let us know in the comments here, or share your views on our Manchester Family Facebook page. The team behind the study has suggested the relatively high prevalence in younger kids could be due to a greater proportion of this age group still attending school - with much higher percentages attending compared with last year's lockdown.As part of the study, more than 85,400

direct to your inboxResidents in parts of Harpurhey and Moston are being invited for immediate Covid tests after a mutant strain was discovered in the area. Thousands of people will be invited for testing in the coming days as health chiefs work out how the E484K mutation has developed and spread.

list of more than 100 schools that mums, dads and grandparents said had gone 'above and beyond' to support pupils and families.

direct to your inboxHundreds of bus drivers in Manchester are set to strike later this month in a dispute over pay and conditions. Members of Unite employed by Go North West will walk out from February 28.

click on this link, enter your email address, and select 'MyWigan News'.The director of children's services said: "Certainly within six months I would anticipate we would start to see some significant changes."She added: "We house more of our looked after children within Wigan than other Greater Manchester authorities do."So whilst where we're not where we want to be, we know that we fare pretty well, but our ambition of course is to be better than pretty well."The council boss also warned that