She has overcome anorexia - and dancer has now warned of government's 'dangerous' plan to tackle obesity

will announce the closure of pubs, bars and restaurants in the north of England on Monday, plunging the hospitality industry once again into uncertainty.

Manchester Airports Group (MAG) announced that 465 jobs at Manchester Airport would be axed.

Plans to remove dangerous cladding from tower blocks in Manchester city centre have been submitted - three years after the issues were first identified.Residents of City Gate in Castlefield have lived with the knowledge that their buildings were clad in the same aluminum composite material (ACM) found at Grenfell Tower.Two months after the tragedy in August 2017, leaseholders at the three towers were told by property management firm Rendall & Rittner that they would have to pay up to £7,000 to

coronavirus infection rates continue to soar in cities such as Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle.

Police have shared photos of a haul of knives that were left at a police station as part of a knife amnesty. Greater Manchester Police launched its  Forever Amnesty initiative, as part of its clamp down on serious violent crime, Operation Sycamore.A series of 'amnesty bins' were placed around the region to encourage people to anonymously and safely dispose of unwanted weapons.

said it was unfair for students to continue footing £9k-a-year for tuition when they were not getting the ‘full university experience’. Most students at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and the University of Manchester (UoM) will be taught online until at least October 30.

coronavirus cases continue. Not only has there been a rise in confirmed cases but hospital admissions have also seen a sharp rise, with most of the admissions located in the North West, North East and Yorkshire, it has been reported.

Those to be made redundant at Manchester, which has around 3,500 employees, include security officers, engineers, customer service staff, bus drivers and car park attendants.It follows a huge decline in passengers amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis - from 30.3m between April and August 2020, to 2.8m in the same period this year.Unite - the main aviation union - have also blamed the job losses on the government's failure to provide support to the sector.Union bosses have said they will immediately

Sign up here - it only takes a few seconds.“And in light of the postponement of test events we will intensify our efforts to pioneer new approaches - working with epidemiologists, scientists and medical experts in areas such as public health, clinical processes and occupational hygiene.“This will make sure stadiums are COVID-safe by considering best-practice screening and hygiene methods to ensure that fans and the general public will be safe and drive the Government's sporting plans to move

Local lockdown measures are suppressing an explosion of new cases of coronavirus - but are not enough on their own to bring down climbing infection rates, Oldham’s council leader has said.Councillor Sean Fielding believes that the return to schools and workplaces, combined with the effect of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme is behind the latest dramatic spike in Greater Manchester.The council leader also criticised the ‘contradictory messages’ from the government which meant people were becoming

Sign up here - it only takes a few seconds.“Where it can, we will expect the top tiers of professional sport to look at ways in which it can support itself with government focussing on those most in need.”MP Damian Collins subsequently pressed Huddleston on what could be done to help prevent EFL clubs from going out of business.Huddleston said he had asked governing bodies to provide information of any clubs under imminent financial threat.Get the latest breaking Man City news and analysis every

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Firefighters are working through the night to tackle a huge blaze that has ripped through a barn in Cheshire.The fire broke out at a secluded farm, near Knutsford, on Tuesday afternoon (September 22).Five fire engines - four from Cheshire and one from Greater Manchester - raced to the scene at Marthall Lane, in Marthall, just after 1pm.On arrival the crews discovered that the steel-framed barn was well alight.The 40 x 28 metre building contains a large quantity of hale bales stacked from the

Firefighters were called out to tackle a grass fire in east Manchester on Monday night.The fire service attended in Bradford when an area of grassland was caught alight just after 8pm.One onlooker described seeing white smoke in the area."Definitely something on fire because there is smoke blowing from the gasworks going towards the Clayton/Droylsden area," they said.While Robbie Kimpton tweeted about a "massive fire" towards the end of Bradford Road.A Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue

straight to your inbox Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards have both insisted that Manchester City need to sign another centre-back to beat Liverpool to the Premier League title this season. Pep Guardiola's side have brought in Nathan Ake from Bournemouth but are still actively pursuing another defender.

coronavirus.There are reports that laboratories have been overwhelmed by a surge in swabs.Far from being the envy of the world, Labour’s Wes Streeting told Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the Commons this week the system was 'a bloody mess'.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletterYou can sign up very simply by following the instructions hereNHS Test and Trace figures show that 33.3 per cent of people who were tested for coronavirus

straight to your inboxA section of Manchester United fans believe assistant coach Mike Phelan has all but confirmed a deal to sign Jadon Sancho this summer.United are still interested in a move for priority signing Sancho in the summer transfer window, but things have gone a bit quiet in the last few weeks.Negotiations are still ongoing over what would be a club-record move for the £108million rated Sancho but United are considering alternatives with their first game of the new season only next

The night-time economy is facing a bleak future with three in every five operators facing closure, it has been warned.Greater Manchester's night time economy adviser Sacha Lord has urged the government to provide more targeted support for the sector.He has also labelled the government's latest 'All In, All Together' campaign, which is encouraging people to return to workplaces, as 'shameful, ignorant and insulting' for those still unable to do so.Describing Boris Johnson's recent television