Schools, lockdown, our 'R' number and tracing: This is everything said at Andy Burnham's emergency press conference

huge blaze on Saddleworth Moor. Following the fire Oldham council banned barbecues, fireworks and sky lanterns on the moor.Anyone caught breaching the by-law, which also covers Marsden Moor, can be fined £100.

Now more passengers are returning to the service in order to get to, and from, work, they will rightly expect to be able to access the Internet as part of their travel experience.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentKey members of the team that shepherded hit biopic “Born a King,” about Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, talked about the experience of “witnessing the birth of a film industry” in Saudi, as Spanish director Agustí Villaronga put it, during a Cannes Virtual Market panel. They also announced that they will be making a sequel. “Born a King” is a Spain-U.K.

hereAmong the speakers is leading British Nurse and Pride of Britain Awards recipient Dame Elizabeth Anionwu.

double murder investigation is underway after shots were fired at around 12.55am on Sunday (June 21).

despite local residents telling the MEN that it was attended by up to 200 people and had a DJ, PA system and gazebos. His comments came after Greater Manchester Police also insisted that the shooting happened at 'an unplanned, spontaneous gathering' and not a rave.

The number of hospital patients dying from Covid in Greater Manchester has halved this week, from 28 to 14.Andy Burnham outlined the latest trends here at his weekly press conference, in which he also highlighted a ‘significant reduction’ in patients in intensive care, adding: “The overall picture is moving in the right direction.”The number of new cases appears to have currently stabilised at between 200 and 250 a week, compared to the height of the crisis, when numbers were closer to

have for weeks now been questioning how this will work in reality - and how it will practicably be enforced.

With the region in lockdown, each person will be going through their own individual experience. Freelance writer Mairi Fraser has been taking an irreverent view of isolating with her family at her Bridge of Earn home on her blog - https://mairiscot.wixsite.com/website/blog. The Perthshire Advertiser is also sharing some of her thoughts and experiences as we continue on lockdown for the foreseeable future. This one is called 'So sweat the small stuff'........Recently, I’ve begun to resist the

warned headteachers away from welcoming more pupils back.

Plans for a 200km network of temporary cycle lanes have been boosted after Manchester council agreed to work with neighbouring boroughs proposing routes into the city.Greater Manchester has tabled a £21.5m bid for government funding to cover the pop-up lanes - which will cover 94km of major roads - and wider measures to improve walking and cycling in the city-region.Mayor Andy Burnham said the final decision rested with local leaders and stressed that the current proposals were ‘not the finished

publication of Public Health England’s latest ‘R’ number analysis for the North West - which now estimates that value to be over 1 - that saw the gloves come off.

Greater Manchester leaders have pledged to build ‘stronger dialogue’ with local black communities in the wake of the ‘callous murder’ of George Floyd.

Council chiefs are asking residents to tell them which streets and pavements are unsafe as the town hall prepares to use £500k to improve Oldham’s highways.

Andy Burnham has joined a number of scientific advisors in arguing that the UK government's easing of the lockdown restrictions is happening too soon.

Nearly £5m will be spent relaunching a scheme helping get Greater Manchester’s rough sleepers off the streets to provide safer accommodation during the coronavirus pandemic.

Greater Manchester could see a fresh surge in homelessness as lockdown eases and recession kicks in, Andy Burnham and charities have warned, as pressure grows on the government to close the ‘gaps’ in its approach.