Millions to be offered Covid booster jabs from today amid autumn campaign

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Muhammad Isa and his brother Ahmed had been meaning to join a gym and get fit.

Prizes including a lifetime pass to Good Life Skates, dinner, drinks and a room at the soon-to-open Treehouse Hotel, weekend passes for the Blue Dot festival and hundreds of pounds in vouchers for the city’s top restaurants are being offered in a fundraising raffle.

Clayton Davis Not every race is what it seems, and so it goes with the first category decision of the season. Variety has confirmed Michelle Williams’ work as the piano-playing mother in Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” will be campaigned for the Oscars in best actress, instead of supporting as many pundits had speculated. The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, won the prestigious People’s Choice Award and became the undisputed frontrunner in the early days of the awards season. One of the highlights of the cast was Williams’ turn as Mitzi Fabelman, a lover of the arts who serves as an inspiration for her filmmaking son Sammy (played by newcomer Gabrielle LaBelle).

Coronation Street star Adam Hussain has shared a sweet message to his former co-star Millie Gibson after she recently filmed her last scenes. The actress, who plays Kelly Neelan, has bowed out of the ITV soap after three years with her dramatic exit set to aire during a special 'Super Soap Week' this month.

Temperatures are dipping, leaves are falling and the knitwear has been dusted off in Manchester this week. I’m all for it - I much prefer layering up with a blouse and sweater vest or funky jacket, and it seems the people of Manchester agree!

As soon as September hits I become positively gleeful, I do love summer style but there's something about wrapping myself up in a trench coat and shopping for scarves with a Pumpkin Spice Latte to hand that makes my day.

Martin Lewis has revealed the new prices of gas and electricity charges due to affect millions of homes and families.

A notorious drugs baron with links to Manchester is due out in November - and will emerge to a very different underworld. Curtis Warren, 59, was jailed for 13 years in 2009 over a plot to smuggle £1million of cannabis into Jersey and is now due for automatic release.

Tributes to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, have continued to pour in from Manchester Evening News readers the day after the world learned of her passing.

Charlie McNeill became the latest youngster to be awarded his senior Manchester United debut on Thursday night.

South Manchester Care is a home care provider which offers a range of support enabling people to keep living independently in their own homes.

The Masked Dancer is back and as baffling as ever as a celebrity panel and viewers watching at home attempt to work out who is dancing in disguise. An all-star cast are showcasing their dazzling dance moves while covered from head to toe in extravagant and elaborate costumes.

Here are your Manchester United evening headlines for Wednesday, August 31

A reward is being offered after a popular pizza restaurant's only van was stolen near Manchester city centre. Proove Pizza says its van was taken from Collyhurst Road, at the junction with Dalton Street, at around 10.30pm on Friday (August 26).