‘Save Hough End Fields’: Campaigners to protest development of park

Yuliia Bihun often wakes in the night. In a confused state, she imagines herself back in Kyiv as bombs and missiles rain down around her.

Millions of motorists have a safety feature in their cars that they know nothing about.

I’m standing with a crowd of excited fans about to head into Manchester's real-life Coronation Street set on the official tour of the ITV soap. But before we are allowed to set foot on to the famous street, our tour guide is taking us through some important ground rules.

Shop workers have described groups of youths causing havoc in Stockport town centre, riding bikes into shops and throwing items around. This came after police issued a stark warning to parents following a surge in anti-social behaviour involving kids as young as nine around Merseyway Shopping Centre.

Leary drinkers in a flat roofed pub downing pint after pint while women blast out 'Roll out the barrel' on a karaoke machine, was what treated viewers in a documentary on Britain's toughest pubs in the noughties.

With warmer weather and lighter evenings, it's getting towards that time of year when a meal from your favourite chippy is even more special.

Police have released video footage showing the inside of a 'chop shop' used by two brothers to break down stolen cars and sell the parts on eBay.

Two brothers raked in more than £120,000 breaking down stolen top-of-the-range cars and selling the parts on eBay.

Kerry Katona has admitted that Katie Price's boobs "aren't her cup of tea" after the star recently underwent her 14th boob job. Writing in her weekly new column, Kerry, 41, discussed her pal's latest surgery after seeing Katie's holiday snaps online. Sign up – for free! – to see what else Kerry has to say.

With recent hikes in energy prices and rising inflation, there’s never been a better time to save money and tighten the purse strings.

Over the past 84 years, Carrs Pasties' delightfully soft pastry and delicious fillings have won the heart of many a Boltonian.

Peter Hook helped unveil a new mural of Joy Division bandmate Ian Curtis in Macclesfield town centre this afternoon (March 26).The bassist and co-founder of New Order cut the ribbon alongside Akse, the Manchester-based street artist who painted the mural, telling those in attendance: “I am actually very honoured to be here, and to do this, because to me it’s about time Ian came home.”The mural, funded by Cheshire East Council, is based on an original photograph taken by Kevin Cummins at The Factory/Russell Club in Hulme, Manchester on 13 July 1979. It adorns a building on Mill Street opposite Macclesfield bus station.Ahead of the unveiling, Curtis said earlier in the week: “I’m watching all the people going down the street and every single one of them is drawn to it.“Some young kids walking down had no idea who he was but now they do. Hopefully they’ll listen to the music and get the gist of what we were trying to do as kids.”Some of Akse’s other recent works include murals of the late British army officer and fundraiser Captain Tom Moore and Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford.He said it was an honour to paint the portrait of Curtis and hoped local people were excited about it.“Although I’ve been working on murals most of my life, it’s still always an incredible feeling to get to the end of the journey – well the end of my journey at least,” Akse said.

A husband and wife team with a joint passion for cycling decided to launch their own cycle cafe during lockdown - and are now reaping the rewards of their prime location close to a 1,000 acre parkland where young and old can cycle at leisure. Kay and Craig Tierney opened their Apus Peak cycle cafe last year transforming an empty retail unit just close to the entrance of Tatton Park in Knutsford.

Maxïmo Park have announced plans for a singles only UK tour later this year – purchase tickets here.The band will be hitting the road for a series of shows for their ‘Sïngular Tour’ in the autumn, kicking off at the O2 Institute in Birmingham on September 30 with further dates in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Cardiff, Nottingham and Glasgow before wrapping up at the O2 City Hall in Newcastle on October 14.The jaunt will see Maxïmo Park perform early hits such as ‘Apply Some Pressure’ and ‘Going Missing’ from their 2005 debut album ‘A Certain Trigger’ right up to contemporary singles from last year’s ‘Nature Always Wins’.The band have also shared new single ‘Great Art’ to coincide with the tour, which you can listen to below.“The song is about the insidious nature of Conservative ideology, and a response to people who say, ‘At least we’ll get some great art out of it!'” frontman Paul Smith said of the new single, which you can purchase as a seven inch here.“We’re excited to have new material to play alongside our other singles on the Sïngular tour – we’ve always written songs crammed full of hooks, so that’s our ideal medium in some ways.”You can also find tickets to their UK tour here and view Maxïmo Park’s full jaunt below:SEPTEMBER 30 – O2 Institute, BirminghamOCTOBER1 – O2 Academy, Leeds2 – Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool4 – Tramshed, Cardiff6 – Academy, Manchester7 – Roundhouse, London8 – O2 Academy, Oxford10 – O2 Academy, Bristol12 – Rock City, Nottingham13 – Barrowland, Glasgow14 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle

A nursery where fire exits are blocked and children ‘run around carrying hot soup’ has been rated as inadequate by Ofsted. The education watchdog found youngsters at Small World Nurseries, in Rochdale, were at risk of potential harm because of ineffective risk assessments.

MI5 faced stinging criticism today from the families of those who were killed in the 2017 terror attack at Manchester Arena.