A £15billion plan asking for improvements to transport between five northern cities has been backed by Chancellor George Osborne at a speech in Manchester.

After just 16 appearances for City following his 20xx move from Everton, where he played 85 games as a teenager, Rodwell’s career appeared to be heading the wrong way.

The news was delivered last night by Hill after deciding it was a natural choice to select Lancashire who had already gained sound experience as a skipper.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat after a passenger plane was escorted into Manchester Airport by RAF jets.

A passenger has been escorted off a plane by police after it was brought in to Manchester Airport flanked by fighter jets due to a ‘possible device’ onboard.

Police Chief Sir Peter Fahy has waded into the city centre Gaza protests as Baroness Warsi resigns from the cabinet over the Middle Eastern crisis.

Jack Christian, 22, and Lee Perris, 23, had been drinking and taking drugs before taking Mr Perris’s mother’s car and driving it off on a frosty night without clearing the windscreen properly

Bouncers at Princess Street’s Alter Ego are also alleged to have ‘misgendered’ the man after he was repeatedly called ‘she’ despite protests at the incident, which happened around 2am.

Former Arsenal and France midfielder Vieira, who had a brief FA Cup-winning stint at City before he hung up his boots, took charge of the EDS (Elite Development Squad) in 2013.

Students and staff from the University of Manchester who lost their lives during World War One are being remembered in a real-time tribute.

Salford boxer Jamie Moore remains under armed guard in a Marbella hospital after being shot in the kneecaps in a gangland-style attack.