Woman charged with attempted murder of young man at Handforth station

EXCLUSIVE: Sweden’s Arvet Agency is producing horror film The Deacon from Venice Award-winning filmmaker Tequoia Urbina.

A young Scots man has died after a fatal fall at a volcano in Ecuador.

Manchester City will step out at the Etihad Stadium for the first time on Saturday when they host newly promoted Bournemouth.

Five boys have been charged with assault after a man was attacked in Oldham.

A man was seriously injured after being stabbed in a 'confrontation' involving up to 10 men, police have said. The 25-year-old was taken to hospital following the attack in Failsworth, Oldham in the early hours of Friday.

The Premier League has announced that it will be reintroducing drinks breaks this weekend for all matches, including Manchester United and Manchester City's fixtures.

Manchester City players including Kevin De Bruyne are keeping in contact with former academy youngster Romeo Lavia, who says he left the Etihad permanently this summer after being impressed with Southampton when they visited the Etihad last season.

A Lebanon man who was "intercepted" in the English Channel last June was found dead in Manchester Ship Canal just over a year later.

Former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona enjoyed a day out at West Ham United on a double date with her friend Ampika Pickston. Kerry was all smiles at the London Stadium alongside her fiance Ryan Mahoney as they watched West Ham play their first match of the Premier League season against Manchester City.

Kevin De Bruyne expects both himself and Manchester City to improve after putting a difficult first game of the season behind them.

Pep Guardiola and his star-studded Manchester City team will start their latest Premier League title defence with what promises to be a mouth-watering opener against West Ham at the London Stadium (4.30pm).

Here are your Manchester City headlines for Saturday, August 6

After months of transfer business, Manchester City are finally back in Premier League action and will begin their title defence against West Ham United.

As shoppers and pubgoers milled about Westhoughton town centre on a busy Saturday afternoon, anyone passing through would not have imagined that anything out of the ordinary had happened earlier that same day.

A woman is due to appear in the crown court later this month charged with the attempted murder of a 20-year-old man at a railway station.

Pep Guardiola has no doubts that Manchester City will be challenging Liverpool for the Premier League title again this season.

ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus has shared a message of support for the English women’s football team (aka the Lionesses) after they celebrated a 4-0 win over Sweden earlier this week.The Lionesses dominated Sweden, where ABBA hail from, in the semi-final match of the 2022 UEFA Women’s Euro Championship. The game took place at Milton Keyes’ Stadium MK on Wednesday (July 27) and is to be followed by the final match this Sunday (August 31).There, the Lionesses – who are currently eighth in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings – will face off against Germany at London’s Wembley Stadium.As reported by the Evening Standard, the Lionesses celebrated their semi-final victory with a singalong to ABBA, who feature prominently in the team’s dressing room playlist.When asked what she and her team listened to after scoring the final goal, forward Alessia Russo told journalists: “It was a little bit of ABBA – there’s always ABBA – but also Proud, West Virginia, a couple of old songs.”Leaning into the irony that the Lionesses marked their win over Sweden by singing along to Swedish music, Björn took to Instagram with a message of congratulations the team, which he delivered wearing the jersey of Sweden’s own football team.In the message, he said: “I understand that you celebrated your well-earned victory the other day with ABBA music, and I have to say, that makes the defeat a little easier to bear.

Manchester City defender John Stones has sent a belated farewell message to Oleksandr Zinchenko after the Ukrainian left-back completed his transfer to Arsenal last week.