'We couldn't afford to retire in the UK - so we sold our house and now live mortgage-free in Lanzarote'

A man from Wythenshawe has completed the massive achievement of cycling just under 1200 miles across 11 countries in just over two weeks.

An ‘empowering’ studio space and marketplace for Black-owned businesses is set to open on the edge of Manchester city centre.

A new development of 'affordable' living is in store for Oldham - and will be named after a well-known figure in the town. The three-storey senior living block is being built on Ashton Road West, on the site of the old Failsworth Mill.

When Big Brother came back to our screens for a seventh series in 2006, one of the contestants had a very memorable entrance to the house.That was Glyn Wise, who, at the time, was an 18-year-old lifeguard wearing only a pair of swimming shorts, hoping to channel the David Hasselhoff look. As he walked past the crowd and made his way into the house, he had a mixture of cheers and boos, the same as the other 21 participants from that series.

Thousands of Liam Gallagher fans are set to join ticketing queues on Friday as his new Definitely Maybe tour offficially goes on sale. There is set to be a ticket buying frenzy after Liam announced he would be celebrating the 30th anniversary of Oasis' debut album with a solo tour in 2024.

The MediaPro Studio will look to invest in literary and library program rights in the U.S., the Spanish company’s boss told delegate here at Mipcom Cannes today, as it unveiled several new projects during a Mipcom Cannes keynote.

The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Max streamer will launch in 22 European countries in spring 2024 and France and Belgium later next year, the media outfit revealed today.

Greg Kurstin, Mura Masa, Danny L Harle, Count Baldor, Phil and Cash Cobain among others.Speaking of the LP in a press release, the singer said: “The record is about grief for a loss but being at peace with yourself in your aloneness. Journeying from hell into purgatory, but I’m ok with being there.”‘Heaven Knows’ is set for release on November 10 via Warner.

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Princess Diana in an upcoming play about her notorious 1995 “Panorama” interview is here. The 35-year-old actress looks just like the late Princess of Wales in photos released Wednesday from “The Interview,” which will debut at London’s Park Theatre at the end of the month.Kettle donned a nearly identical blazer and skirt that Diana wore to speak with disgraced journalist Martin Bashir.

If you're tired, feel achey and not sleeping well, it might be signs of a vitamin D deficiency.

Terence Davies, the director of The Long Day Closes and Distant Voices, Still Lives, has died at 77 according to his official social media pages.

Linda Laban Opening for Sting at the Hollywood Bowl makes for some album release show. That’s what Joe Sumner will be doing Saturday night, the day after his debut solo album, “Sunshine in the Night,” is released.

The Gaslight Anthem have shared news of a 2024 UK and European tour as well as a headline slot at next year’s 2000Trees festival – find ticket info and more below.The New Jersey rockers will head to cities including Stockholm, Brussels, Dublin, Manchester and Glasgow from March 2024, with two stops at London’s Roundhouse venue (March 25-26). Emily Wolfe supports the band for the spring shows.Later that summer the band play Nottingham’s Rock City (July 10) ahead of their headline show at Cheltenham’s 2000trees festival (July 11).Tickets for the 2024 UK and European tour go on sale this Friday (October 6) at 10am BST here.

With the colder, autumn weather now kicking in, it can be tempting to turn your heating on as soon as you feel a slight chill. But in the midst of the cost of living crisis, homeowners need to refrain from switching their heating on too early if they want to prevent soaring energy bills.

They're called flashbulb memories.Those events in history where you can remember exactly what you were doing at the time they happened. From the election of President Obama to the announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic and even Take That splitting up – all belong to a part of psychology where personal memories of significant events are somehow imprinted in our brains in a different way to everyday ones.

Manchester City will be going for seven wins out of seven in the Premier League when they travel to the Midlands to take on Wolves at Molineux today.

The Trafford Centre celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, leaving plenty of shoppers feeling nostalgic about favourite times and first times at the giant shopping centre. The £600m mall officially opened its doors to the public on September 10, 1998, after an epic 27-month construction at Dumplington.

Muse performed tracks from their seminal 2003 album ‘Absolution’ for the first time since 2016 at their arena show in Dublin yesterday (September 27).The trio kicked off their autumn run of UK and Ireland shows at the 3Arena on Wednesday, where they performed three ‘Absolution’ tracks.As per Setlist.FM, Muse played ‘Butterflies & Hurricanes’ for the first time since 2017, along with opening track ‘Intro’ leading into ‘Apocalypse Please’ for the first time since 2016.Introducing the 20-year-old ‘Butterflies & Hurricanes’, frontman Matt Bellamy said that the band hadn’t played the track for a long time, before asking the crowd to “bear with us” as “we might fuck this one up”.You can watch footage of both performances below.After the show, Muse posted to Instagram to thank fans for an “amazing start to this run of shows”.Check out the full setlist from the first night of Muse’s autumn arena tour below.‘Will of the People’‘Interlude’‘Hysteria’‘Psycho’‘Butterflies & Hurricanes’‘Won’t Stand Down’‘Compliance’‘Thought Contagion’‘Intro’‘Apocalypse Please’‘Time Is Running Out’‘The 2nd Law: Isolated System’‘Resistance’‘You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween’‘Madness’‘We Are Fucking Fucked’‘The Dark Side’‘Supermassive Black Hole’‘Plug In Baby’‘Behold, the Glove’‘Uprising’‘Prelude’‘Starlight’‘Kill or Be Killed’‘Knights of Cydonia’The Devon trio released new album ‘Will Of The People’ last year and finished up a summer tour of the UK and Europe with Royal Blood back in June.Muse are due to play Manchester’s AO Arena Friday night (September 29), before they play two shows at London’s O2 Arena in early October. Support across all shows comes from Nova Twins.

As the weather begins to get cooler there will again likely be a rise in respiratory viruses - including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The virus, which is a common childhood illness, usually spreads in the UK each year from October and last for around five months - with infections peaking in December.