Outgoing Lord Mayor of Manchester, Paul Murphy OBE, is launching a new initiative to find 10 young Manchester athletes aspiring to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Stockport’s steeplechase sensation Aimee Pratt has been called up to the Great Britain squad at the Loughborough International event this weekend.

Former Olympic coach Vicente Modahl has called for cheaper healthy food and an improvement in the guidance of grassroots athletes.

Stockport’s Aimee Pratt, 17, will study biology at Adams State University (ASU) in Colorado while furthering her blossoming athletics career in which she has already won both the English Championship and the English School Championship.

Aimee Pratt, 17, was recently crowned the top athlete in England in her age group, and leapt onto the global scene at the Loughborough International Athletics meeting on May 17.