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A boutique bowling and entertainment venue is to open in Trafford this summer featuring state-of-the-art lanes, shuffleboard, ping pong, and disco toilets.

Next month, Pep Guardiola will enter the final 12 months of his current Manchester City contract and his recent comments suggest he still has not decided whether to extend.

A driver has died following a horror crash with a lorry on a major Cheshire road. Officers were called out to the A49 Tarporley Road in Oakmere, near Northwich, at around 7.40am yesterday (May 22).

New posts on Oasis's official social media accounts have been sending fans wild with speculation that the Manchester band could be about to reunite this week. But a new announcement made today may well give some answers to the cryptic posts.

Coronation Street star Colson Smith gave fans a brief glimpse of his rarely-seen girlfriend as he enjoyed a break away from the cobbles. The actor waved goodbye to a rainy Weatherfield and headed for Ibiza where he seemingly enjoyed the trip with partner Taylor Gunn.

Josie Gibson has responded to a fan as they asked her to present This Morning 'every day' after she wasn't chosen for the main hosting gig following the exits of both Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.

A 'wonderful' mechanic whose death sparked a murder probe took his own life, a coroner has ruled.

Heineken has confirmed the cause of a gas leak at its Manchester brewery. A 50-metre cordon was put in place around the Denmark Road site, off Princess Road, yesterday afternoon (May 23) while seven fire engines were called out to the scene.

Gemma Atkinson was left responding 'as if' after asking for her fans' help over her new home visitor. Those who follow the Hits Radio host on social media will know that she's acquired a couple of squirrel friends in the garden of her Greater Manchester home.

Nightingale is getting an update that adds several quality-of-life features, including a much-requested offline mode.Nightingale is a PvE lamplight survival-game set during the Victorian era. Previously, you could only play it with a stable internet connection, but now players will be able to enjoy the game offline.

Rishi Sunak announced the summer general election.Yesterday evening (May 22), the Prime Minister confirmed that the UK would be going to the polls on Thursday July 4. Addressing the nation outside 10 Downing Street, Sunak said it was “the moment for Britain to choose its future”.The PM delivered the speech as he stood in the heavy rain, and was drowned out by the sound of D:Ream’s 1993 single ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ – which was the election campaign song for Labour in 1997.Famous physicist Cox – who is known for his space and science programmes on TV – played keyboards for the pop/dance band in the ’90s.

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban.In an interview with Total Film, published today in their May 23 issue, Cuarón recalls his hesitance over the offer made to him by producer David Heyman.At the time, Cuarón was fresh off the acclaim that followed his 2001 drama Y tu mamá también. Unlike his friend and fellow Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, he was relatively unfamiliar with the book and film property.

Ed Sheeran has broken out a number of old favourites and rarities at his recent ‘X’ 10th anniversary show in New York. Find footage of the gig and the full setlist below.The gig took place at the historic Barclays Center in New York last night (May 22), and marked a special one-off show from the singer-songwriter to celebrate 10 years since the release of his now iconic sophomore album, ‘X’.To mark the milestone, Sheeran broke out a complete rendition of the album’s tracklist at the venue – launching with opening track ‘One’, and proceeding to play the release in its entirety, start to finish.As well as fan favourites including ‘Photograph’, ‘Sing’ and ‘Thinking Out Loud’, the setlist also saw Sheeran perform a number of songs for the first time in years, and break out some of the tracks for their first-ever live rendition.Both ‘New York’ and ‘Nina’ for instance, were given an airing out for the first time in 10 years – with Sheeran last performing them both just after his second album dropped.It was a similar case for ‘Runaway’, ‘The Man’, ‘Afire Love’ and ‘English Rose’, which all got played at the Brooklyn venue for the first time since 2015.

Agents of Mystery, starring aespa‘s Karina. Read on for everything you need to know about the show’s plot, cast, premiere date and more.According to a press release by Netflix, the series will follow “six personalities [as they] find themselves as agents transported to secretive sites to investigate cases and complete missions with their combined intellect.

A memorial service commemorating the worst rail disaster in Scottish and British history will be held in Edinburgh this weekend.

Iron deficiency anaemia is caused by lack of iron and if you think you have it, the NHS warns people that you need to book a GP appointment.

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A Royal expert has suggested that despite the Royal Family's potential reservations, they may not have the power to halt Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from undertaking further unofficial overseas tours.

Residents and visitors are being invited to commemorate the 900th anniversary of Stirling by taking part in the Walking of the Marches on Saturday.

A callous finance worker who claimed her dying boss gave her permission to take company cash has been convicted of stealing £75,000.

A mum of four managed to shed an impressive two stone in just six months - while still eating her favourite dinner, snacking on crisps, and drinking wine.

Mason Greenwood's former Cheshire home has been put up for rent.

Billie Eilish has said that her latest album ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ feels like “the most genuine thing” she’s ever made.The 22-year-old singer opened up about her attitude towards her third studio album during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week (May 21), and described the project as her most authentic music to date.“I think that with ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’, it’s the first time since I’ve been an adult and maybe ever in my kind of creative life,” she told the host of the late-night chatshow. “It truly is the most genuine thing I’ve ever made”.She continued: “It feels very, very me and it feels like all of the music is exactly who I am.

The motorcyclist who died following a collision on the A76 between Kilmarnock and Mauchline earlier this week has been named as Tony Currie.

BBC's 'Escape to the Country' presenter Jules Hudson has shared insights into his personal journey from city dweller to countryman.

here.The report from AIF also comes after NME looked into why so many UK festivals have been cancelled or postponed in recent years, and spoke to industry experts to shed light on the rapid decline.It highlighted how Herefordshire’s Nozstock Hidden Valley announced that 2024 would be their final incarnation after 26 years due to “soaring costs” and financial risk”, and Shepton Mallet skating and music festival NASS announced that they wouldn’t be putting on an event this summer either as it was “just not economically feasible to continue”.Others mentioned were the cancelled Dumfries’ Doonhame Festival, Bluedot – which announced a year off for the land to “desperately” recover after being struck by heavy rain and cancellations last summer – Nottingham’s Splendour, which was canned this year due to planning delays from a financially-struggling city council, and Barn On The Farm shared that it would be taking a fallow year due to financial constraints.Discussing the issues at hand, co-manager for the latter, Oscar Matthews, told NME: “From our perspective, the festival in 2023 itself was brilliant – it was a really successful year – but we were hit majorly on a financial level by a mix of increased production costs and a very big reduction in ticket sales,” he said.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has begun its marketing campaign, with a mysterious new website launched containing a short, live-action teaser trailer for the game.A website has been launched, thetruthlies.com. On it, there’s an old analogue TV, similar to the 2020 Black Ops Cold War reveal.

Coronation Street fans think they have worked out who is targeting Abi Webster as she was left devastated to find out a sex tape had been released featuring her. The mechanic hasn't been having the best of times having recently been reminded of her son's murderer in the ITV soap.

Nigel Farage has announced he is not standing as a Reform UK candidate in the July 4 General Election, but will “do my bit to help” the party in the campaign.

Helen Flanagan brought the heat in her latest social media post as she posed up a storm to reveal 'very exciting' news that is seeing her move on from her ex. It was revealed that the actress will be one of the familiar faces seeking the help of the Celebs Go Dating agency.