‘Waterloo Road’: BBC Commits To Teen Drama With Rare Double-Season Order

Manchester United defender Jonny Evans has revealed he attended the Reds' two cup finals last season and says he is delighted to be back with the club.

The stabbing of a boy at a venue in Manchester city centre is being linked to the shooting of a 16-year-old last month, the Manchester Evening News understands. The boy was knifed in the back on Saturday evening at the Love Factory on Dantzic Street in the Green Quarter. The warehouse was hosting an event at the time.

Carol Vorderman has told fans she's a 'mucky bugger' in an admission after she was seen wearing last night's makeup. The revelation came just hours after she was snapped with Richard Arnold, who was a special guest host at the Loose Women tour - which is currently doing the rounds in the UK.

In principle, using the rainy-day, kitchen-sink post-rock of Manchester band The Smiths so prominently in a film like The Killer seems incredibly perverse, given that it’s an exotic, globe-trotting thriller about an American assassin. But in reality, it’s actually very sound choice indeed: legend has it that the band’s singer, Morrissey, had two reasons for naming his band so, the first being that “Smith” is one of the most common and thus unremarkable surnames in the world. The second, and much more subversive theory, suggests that it’s also a reference to David and Maureen Smith, brother-in-law and sister of ’60s serial killer Myra Hindley, the snappily dressed couple whose testimony blew open the Moors Murderers case and whose beatnik likenesses adorn the cover of Sonic Youth’s 1990 album “Goo”.

Dimitar Berbatov admits he sympathises with Harry Maguire over his current situation at Manchester United.

Changes to the format of the Champions League being introduced next season could lead to Manchester United and Man City being drawn in the same group, should both sides qualify for next year's competition.

Alexandra Burke, Suranne Jones and Joel Dommett will be amongst some of the famous faces to appear on the upcoming fifth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

A man claims he was kept in a police cell for four hours and feared he would spend years behind bars after the police suddenly knocked on his door.

Police are 'extremely concerned for a missing man who hasn't been seen since Friday night.

Love Island’s Ekin-Su has shared her “nightmare” after being on a plane that made an emergency landing.The Love Island 2022 winner was on a flight from Bodrum, where she’d been holidaying with ex Davide Sanclimenti, when she claimed the "engine exploded" and “sparks and flames” broke out en route to Manchester.The flight was diverted and later landed in Antalya, with Ekin-Su calling the experience “terrifying”. "Nightmare experience," she wrote on Twitter.

Bernardo Silva insists the desire to keep winning major trophies is what persuaded him to extend his stay with Manchester City.

The BBC has recommissioned TV drama Waterloo Road for two further series.The TV show, which explores the lives of students at a state school in Greater Manchester, initially ran on the BBC between 2006 and 2015. Earlier in the year, the show returned with two new series and a cast ensemble that included Coronation Street stars Angela Griffin and Kym Marsh and Emmerdale’s Adam Thomas.The next two series of the show will each comprise eight hour-long episodes, with filming set to begin in Greater Manchester in the autumn.

Popular television show Waterloo Road is returning for another series. And the BBC has revealed there will be more than one series.

Fans have rushed to defend BBC radio's Nihal Arthanayake after he was reprimanded for responding to racist trolls on social media. The 52-year-old, who is active on Twitter, has been keen to call out those making racist remarks but the BBC have an issue with him swearing in his responses.

One of the biggest bugbears when it comes to watching a show at the theatre can be the person sitting next to you who decides to to check their Facebook feed just as you find yourself drawn into the action taking place on stage.

Last night, documentary Kyle Falconer: Love and Chaos aired on BBC Scotland. The View frontman and fiancee Laura Wylde opened up about their parenthood journey and the creation of their new play 'No Love Songs'.

A teenager has died after being found in the street with serious injuries as they investigate his death.

It isn’t every day that a rival soap star bags a role in one of the UK’s biggest soaps, but that is exactly what happened this week when EastEnders fans were treated to a surprise appearance by former Coronation Street star Krissi Bohn. The former ITV star swapped the Manchester cobbles for a stint in Albert Square on Thursday (August 10) when she appeared in the soap as Ben Mitchell’s therapist Saira, as he finally began to seek professional help to combat the trauma of his sexual assault.

The teenager who was shot at point-blank range in the chest in Stretford on Thursday was ‘attacked by approximately 14 males’, police have said.

The owner behind one of the ‘maddest’ shop fronts in Greater Manchester, pleasing football fans heading to Old Trafford, has died.