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family of a young man who tragically died from a single stab wound. Assistant coroner Anthony Howard opened an inquest into the death of Casey Lewis Badhams, 20.

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New Order have announced a one-off show in Halifax for next month – see all the details below.The Manchester icons will take to the stage at the West Yorkshire town’s Piece Hall venue on Wednesday September 8.Tickets go on general sale here at 10am BST this Friday (August 6). A pre-sale will be accessible to members at the same time the previous day (August 5).LoneLady and DJ Tin Tin will open for the band at the gig, with the former saying she is “delighted and honoured” to be performing.

Courteeners have announced they’ll be performing a short run of new warm-up gigs ahead of their massive Old Trafford homecoming show.The Manchester band will play Leicester’s O2 Academy, Stoke-on-Trent’s Victoria Hall, and Halifax’s Victoria Theatre this coming September, with support coming from Zuzu.The gigs will precede Courteeners’ huge hometown show at Manchester’s Emirates Old Trafford cricket stadium on September 25, which sold out in just 90 minutes.

TV viewers know actress Nicola Walker as the leading lady of ITV’s brilliant crime drama, Unforgotten. However the star, who plays dedicated police officer DCI Cassie Stuart, has been winning fans over for more than twenty years, with standout roles in shows including Spooks, Last Tango in Halifax and The Split.

direct to your inbox A churchyard in Sale has been transformed into a grisly crime scene during filming for a new TV police drama.

Also on this day: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery is ratified as Georgia becomes the 27th state to endorse it.Army engineers complete construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk.

direct to your inboxThree people have been taken to hospital after an explosion at a house reduced a property to a smoking pile of rubble.The incident happened on Saturday morning at around 7.30am in Green Lane in Halifax, West Yorkshire.West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said three people were treated at the scene and were taken to hospital.All others have been accounted for, they said.No other information has been released about the people who were hurt.Get the latest updates from across

The Music Venue Trust launched a new campaign to save 30 UK venues still in danger of being lost forever in the wake of coronavirus restrictions.MVT’s new #SaveThe30 ‘Traffic Light’ campaign will highlight the venues considered safe, at risk or in imminent danger between now and March 31.

Doves have announced details of two outdoor UK shows for next summer – get all the details below.The shows, which follow an existing headline tour set for March and April, come in support of the band’s recent comeback album ‘The Universal Want’.The new gigs will take place across two days in late June next summer.

coronavirus. The branch, at The Rock in Bury town centre, closed today (Friday, September 4) ahead of a deep-clean.

The Cribs have announced a number of new UK tour dates for 2021 – see the list of new shows below.The announcement comes after the band recently revealed details of their upcoming new album, ‘Night Network’, which lands in November.The band’s tour begins in London at the Roundhouse on June 11, with shows then taking place in Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and Manchester, before the six-date tour finishes up at the Piece Hall in Halifax on June 20.See the dates in full below.JUNE 202111 – London,

A mother-of-two died in the street after her drunken boyfriend threw a mobile phone at her neck.

Sajjad Hussain had a full-time job at an HSBC call centre.