Merlin Cinemas pledge to revive former Odeon in heart of Ayr town centre

Michaela Strachan was going through one of the toughest times of her life when she started out on Pilgrimage: The Road Through North Wales.The nature expert and Springwatch host had lost a number of loved ones over the preceding year, including her best friend Lucy who passed away from breast cancer just before filming began. It was an incredibly difficult year for Michaela, 57, but the broadcaster has experienced more than her fair share of tragedy over the years, from health battles to divorce. She joins Spencer Matthews, Tom Rosenthal, Eshaan Akbar, Christine McGuinness, Amanda Lovett and Sonali Shah on the 220km trek for the BBC Two show.

Marks and Spencer customers have slammed the new modern-style cafes at its Trafford Centre and Handforth Dean megastores, likening them to a "poor functioning McDonalds". Café-goers have left a string of one and two star reviews on TripAdvisor since the new look cafes launched in the stores.

Despite a near-fatal brush with death in the early new year of 2023, Jeremy Renner is back at it in the acting game, almost as if nothing ever happened. Miraculously healthy, healed, and back to work in early 2024, Renner is back for a third season of his Paramount+ series, “Mayor Of Kingstown,” about a power broker family whose main business is incarceration.

The first teaser for Mayor of Kingstown‘s third season is finally here…and we also have an official Paramount+ premiere date!

We’re getting the first look at Jeremy Renner in the upcoming third season of Mayor of Kingstown. Paramount+ has dropped the first trailer and unveiled a spring premiere date for the upcoming season which sees Renner’s Mike McClusky in a fight against a fierce Russian mob.

Greater Manchester councils have announced their plans for rubbish collections and recycling centre opening times over the Easter bank holiday weekend. With Good Friday and Easter Monday upon us, changes to waste and recycling pick up schedules are sometimes made.

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Kirkland will return as Police Captain Walter in Season 3 of the Paramount+ Original series Mayor of Kingstown, currently in production.

Drake Bell is opening up about a song he penned for his debut album, where he alluded to the sexual abuse he suffered as a teenager.

Marta Balaga “After the Party” came from anger, says co-creator Dianne Taylor. “It came from a lot of anger.” “Robyn delivered an amazing audition for something I wrote, and the director said ‘no.’ He said she was ‘too mature’ for the role, even though it was written for someone her age. We decided to make something together, where a 50-year-old isn’t played by a 30-year-old.” “For the longest time, we didn’t have a character and we didn’t have a story.

The Mayor of Salford has pledged to build hundreds of new council homes over the next four years if re-elected.

An American bakery brand loved by Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury is arriving at The Trafford Centre this week.

Selome Hailu Joey Graziadei’s visits to the hometowns of the women of “The Bachelor” Season 28 marked not only the most-watched episode of his season so far, but reached a larger audience than any episode of “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette” or “Bachelor in Paradise” since the finale of Clayton Echard’s season in 2022 when accounting for three days of viewing. The only series in the franchise to outperform Joey’s since then has been the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor.” The episode’s March 11 airing on ABC averaged a season high 3.8 million viewers according to Live + Same Day data from Nielsen.

The third season of Mayor of Kingstown is one of the most anticipated titles returning to Paramount+.

The iconic Burns statue in Dumfries is set to be cleaned up.

Council chiefs are set to splash almost half a million on Ayr as part of a new vision for the town centre.

The redevelopment of the Mill Gate shopping centre is a step closer. Bury council has agreed a masterplan to build homes, retail, leisure and hospitality space.

A new social gaming bar in the heart of the City Centre will be opening its doors this weekend with great food, drinks and rounds of darts.

If you have a birthday coming up, a trip to the Trafford Centre should be on the cards. The huge shopping centre has revealed a whole host of freebies you’re entitled to, to celebrate your special day.

When a world famous cookie store opens its first shop in the north of England, there are likely to be queues. When that shop is inside the shopping mecca that is The Trafford Centre, well, you can guess the result.

EXCLUSIVE: Natasha Marc will reprise her role as ‘Cherry’ in Season 3 of the Paramount+ Original series Mayor of Kingstown. Marc made her last appearance in the ninth episode of Season 1 titled “The Lie of the Truth.”