Call for review of speed camera criteria as 'bar far too high'

Emmerdale star Roxy Shahidi had a cheeky response when she was asked why she had signed up for the upcoming series of Dancing on Ice. The actress was talking as the ITV soap filmed festive proposal scenes in Leeds with none other than Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital patients were surprised by famous Mancunian stars as a Christmas treat organised by the Manchester Foundation Trust Charity.

Coronation Street on-screen mother and daughter look more like sisters in real life as they lead the glamourous appearances at the soap's festive bash. The ITV soap stars were out in force as they hit Manchester city centre for their Christmas celebrations after enough big year on the cobbles.

The Coronation Street ladies put on a stunning display as they stepped out for the cast's Christmas party. Most of Corrie's well known faces hit the town to celebrate the festive season at Refuge Bar, in Manchester, on Friday, December 7. However it was the girls that stole the show in their glitzy dresses and beautiful outfits.Tina O'Brien, who plays Sarah Barlow in the ITV soap, looked gorgeous in a sparkly red mini dress.

The huge canopy erected for Chanel's Manchester fashion show will be coming down - but may not be lost forever, the Manchester Evening News has learned.

Luke Shaw caused quite a stir on social media after appearing to agree that Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial stood little chance of returning to Manchester United's starting line-up.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here star Fred Sirieix has revealed how he was 'told off' over his 'unacceptable' behaviour towards Josie Gibson as he was confronted by her co-star. The First Dates star became the third campmate to be eliminated from the ITV show on Tuesday night (December 5).

A lettings agent has been spared jail despite fleecing landlord clients and her bosses out of as much as £130,000.

A popular cake shop in the city centre is handing out Willy Wonka-style golden tickets to customers this week giving them a chance to win big just in time for Christmas.

The Trafford Centre is already packed with shoppers in the run up to Christmas, and now the mall has announced its extended opening hours over the festive period. It will include a week of late night shopping in the run up to Christmas to 11pm.

Plans for two apartment blocks totalling 204 homes in Salford’s major regeneration area are still under consultation with city planners. The scheme close to Middlewood Locks is a joint venture between the Canal and Rivers Trust and Bloc and has been branded H20.

More of Salford’s social housing is being moved into public ownership with 56 properties transferred to the city council’s property company. The authority’s property and regeneration committee approved the move for the properties at the former St Luke’s school site in the Weaste and Seedley ward on a 1,000-year lease for social and affordable rent.

A woman with size 32K breasts claims she was refused reduction surgery on the NHS because she was deemed to be too fat - despite being a size SIX at the time. Summer Roberston, now 26, developed large boobs from the age of eight, which caused her pain and brought "unwanted attention".

A judge blasted convicted rapist Lawrence Jones as having a 'misogynistic view of women' as she jailed him for 15 years. The 55-year-old founder of Manchester tech company UK Fast attacked two women in the 1990s while he was a piano player in pubs and hotels across the city.

At 9am on Thursday morning (November 30), the shutters haven’t even rolled up on half the shops in the Trafford Centre yet there is already a queue of people waiting patiently outside the former Debenhams unit at the far end of the shopping centre.

A man was left scratching his head after receiving a bill that "made no sense" at a stylish new bar. The punter, who asked not to be named, was out with his flatmate at the upmarket Sexy Fish in Manchester, which opened in Spinningfields last month.

Some Manchester United supporters have called upon youngster Joe Hugill to start over Anthony Martial if Rasmus Hojlund is not in a position to feature against Everton this afternoon.

Figures at Manchester United were still rewriting their epitaph to James Garner as recently as the summer.

A young boy was tragically killed by a speeding drug driver after his mum left him at home alone, with no gas or electricity.

We're still only a few days into the new series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here but viewers have shared two specific demands for show bosses. The hit ITV reality show returns to screens on Sunday (November 19) for series 23 with Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly back as hots.