Nurse who spent 48 years on frontline delayed retirement to help Covid-19 effort - now she's administering vaccines

direct to your inboxA vaccination programme to protect homeless people from Covid-19 in Manchester will move into a new phase after a successful start.Urban Village Medical Practice in Ancoats has been working with the city council to give jabs to more than 100 people living in council accommodation.The scheme will now be extended to cover those in temporary accommodation and day centres after the first few sessions saw 81 people who are homeless receive the vaccination.Manchester council says

Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletterA pensioner who strangled his wife to death after he 'snapped' days into the first UK lockdown has been jailed.Anthony Williams, 70, told police he “literally choked the living daylights” out of his wife of 46 years on the morning of March 28 last year at their home in south Wales.Williams was cleared of murder following a trial in which a psychologist argued his anxiety “was heightened” because of lockdown,

Big Grillie Style, Burgerize, and a new partnership between Crazy Pedro's and Eat New York. Even Manchester's only Michelin-star restaurant has joined the burger bandwagon this year, with Mana launching a takeaway burger service that's consistently sold out for weeks on end.

direct to your inbox Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and who could blame you at this point), you’ll no doubt have heard about the latest Channel 4 series It’s A Sin. The series focuses on a group of young individuals in London during the HIV and AIDS crisis in the 1980s.The five-part show has already broken records and has helped Channel 4 achieve its best ever monthly viewing figures on its All 4 streaming platform.

direct to your inboxThree Mancunian sisters who conned businesses in Liverpool out of thousands of pounds are to be forced to pay back their ill-gotten gains.Sarah, Lynsey and Emmiline Burdon, from North Manchester, targeted luxury shops, restaurants, beauticians and hairdressers in the Liverpool ONE shopping centre and the city's Met Quarter, the Liverpool Echo reports.They stole thousands of pounds from their victims, then later splashed the cash on fags, booze and hundreds of lottery

direct to your inboxWayne Rooney has stopped himself in his tracks.He has adjusted his body position.He has swivelled, while keeping his eyes locked onto the flight of the ball.Now he is in the air, horizontal to the Old Trafford turf, as he swings his trusty right foot high above his head to try and make contact with Nani’s deflected cross.Vincent Kompany is stranded, helpless, a few yards away after misreading the trajectory.Micah Richards is preparing to head it clear at the back post.But

Salford which have mental health support teams out of the 76 mainstream schools in the city, including academies. It comes after Salford was selected as a Greater Manchester 'trailblazer' site alongside three other areas to set up mental health support teams in schools.The 'multi-agency' team brings together the health, voluntary, community and social enterprise sector into groups which coordinates support for schools.

Loch Lomond for 12 years after disappearing on a family holiday has finally found her forever home.George went missing in October 2008 while enjoying a break at a campsite with her owners who were forced to return to Rochdale, Greater Manchester, without her.The plucky puss regularly visited the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park campsite where she was cared for by staff while also regularly wandering into camper vans for food and comfort.When the site was forced to close during the first Covid-19

hundreds also gathered at Manchester’s Albert Square.Co-organised by Jen Langton-Sneyd, a singer and vocal tutor living in Salford, the event was a roaring success and led to the birth of the Manchester chapter of Women’s Global March, the worldwide organisation that was created to help advance women’s human rights.But, despite the well-oiled event, it was actually Jen’s first experience of a protest.“It was my first protest altogether, let alone organising one,” Jen, 37, tells the Manchester

straight to your inboxPhil Foden wants to spend his whole career at Manchester City as he can't imagine himself playing for any other club.Foden first joined City, the club he has supported all his life, at the age of four and went on to graduate from the academy and become one of Pep Guardiola's most important players.After years of patient nurturing from the Blues boss, the 'Stockport Iniesta' is now enjoying his best season yet for the club, with nine goals and five assists in 27 appearances

Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletterA man told a cabin crew manager to 'f*** off' after chaos erupted on an easyJet flight - and left another staff member hiding behind the captain.Jonathan Thomas has been banned by the airline for 10 years.He mouthed off at the member of staff, before saying: "Who do you think you're talking to? Have some respect."Thomas was part of a group which had caused a ruckus during the journey from Manchester to the

direct to your inboxWhat do a United States Army veteran, a former property developer, and a retired Bentley engineer have in common?They are all among Manchester’s vaccination volunteers, and have come out of retirement to help fight the virus with every jab.As the UK passes over 500,000 vaccinations a day, the MEN has spoken to three people playing their part in the biggest vaccination drive in NHS history.Their stories are testament to quiet public spiritedness that is helping the UK through

What do you think about the school's message to the mum? Do you think schools should be sending safeguarding staff to check on pupils if there's little communication between home and school? Do you feel under pressure to be submitting your child's work to school? Let us know in the comments here, or share your views on our Manchester Family Facebook page. The mum, who did not want to be identified, said with her son only just turning five, he doesn't legally have to be in school until

direct to your inboxManchester Airport has called for a 'clear plan' to help the travel industry navigate its way out of the pandemic following the announcement of strict new measures to limit flying abroad. Hub bosses say the new restrictions, including a directive to airlines to quiz people about their reasons for travel prior to boarding, will have 'limited impact' on their already diminished number of passengers.

Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the citySupplies of vaccines have become steadier in parts of Greater Manchester after hospitals said the situation with stock last week was 'hand to mouth'.Hospital hubs in Salford, Rochdale, Oldham and Bury and the mass vaccination centre at the Etihad in Manchester now have a week's schedule of supplies.Salford's supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is also said to be 'more readily available' within the

direct to your inboxEvery care home resident in Manchester has now been given the Covid-19 vaccine.Residents of the city's 56 care homes were among the first people to be prioritised for the vaccine rollout, with NHS teams aiming to have completed the vaccination programme by January 24.After a busy weekend, council bosses said every resident has now had the vaccine in the borough.The vaccines were administered by either local GPs or gtd healthcare with support from Manchester Health and Care

direct to your inboxFirefighters in Greater Manchester were delayed by three months in helping with the Test and Trace system because of a row over health and safety, a report states.Crews were tasked with knocking on the doors of people who the Test and Trace programme was struggling to contact in Manchester.But they were delayed by a health and safety agreement - designed to enable unions to determine extra jobs firefighters would carry out during the pandemic - a Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of