Family pay tribute to 'respectful and deeply religious' charity founder who died in three-car horror crash

An 'exodus', 'leaving in droves', 'crisis' of understaffing, are just some of the ways doctors on the picket lines described the current state of the NHS. This was as medics staged a mammoth 72-hour walk out at major trusts across Greater Manchester this morning.

© Provided by Lancashire Telegraph Alfie James Watson, from Darwen (Image: Courtney Truesdale) Family members have paid tribute to a 14-year-old East Lancashire boy who has died. Alfie James Watson, from Darwen, died suddenly in February and his heartbroken family has left tributes for the teen and say their lives “will never be the same without him. ” The family has since set up a fundraiser, the money of which will be donated to Manchester Children’s Hospital and funeral costs.

A man has been rushed to hospital after being rescued from a car by firefighters following a crash. Police taped off Drake Street, in Rochdale, following the crash near to Castlemere Street.

A driver winds down his window and drops 12p into a metal bucket.

Proud fiancee Gemma Atkinson revealed her man Gorlaka Marquez drove through the night to get home to his family while on his current tour. The Strictly Come Dancing professional, 32, is touring with his co-star Karen Hauer with their show Firedance.

Councils have been setting their annual budgets over the last few weeks. This includes the difficult decision of whether to raise council tax and by how much.

Rank-and-file police officers across Greater Manchester have backed calls for a 17 per cent pay rise this year.

It is British Pie Week. And while every week should, perhaps, be pie week, this week actually is. So there’s likely some legal requirement, or almost certainly a bylaw, that states that pies should be ingested this week en masse.

At just before 8am on Thursday morning this week, Simon Conley, who runs Fountain Fresh at New Smithfield Market, the Manchester arm of a large Spanish import company, was packing up having started his day at midnight. He’d sold eight pallets of tomatoes that morning, with 50 boxes of tomatoes on each pallet, leaving a couple left for tomorrow and another delivery in transit.

A little girl with a huge love for Manchester City who died suddenly has been remembered in the most fitting way, as fans rose to their feet at the Etihad today.

"Shame on you all." Those were the stark words of one heartbroken mother as the third and final report into the Manchester Arena Bombing tragedy was released.

The wider family of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi ‘holds significant responsibility’ for his radicalisation while Manchester-based Islamic State ‘poster boys’ also encouraged him, the public inquiry into the atrocity has concluded.

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury were all smiles and giggles as they embarked on a family day out with baby daughter Bambi upon the boxer's return to the UK.Tommy, 23, had just won his landmark fight against YouTube star Jake Paul in Saudi Arabia on Sunday 26 February, and is still nursing a cut brow and black eye from the match. But despite his war wounds, the former Love Island star had a spring in his step as he enjoyed some well-deserved family time with the two ladies in his life.

UK travellers will not need to pay for a visa waiver to enter the EU until at least 2024 as the scheme has been delayed. The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is now expected to launch in 2024.

K.J. Yossman A Daniel Craig-voiced aid appeal for victims of the tragic earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this month is set to run across 29 networks simultaneously in the U.K. on Friday evening. Media companies including Warner Bros. Discovery, Channel 4, ITV, UKTV, Channel 5 and Sky have gifted advertising space for the 90-second Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, which will run at 9.55pm local time. Channel 4 will also run the advert on its YouTube channel from Friday until Sunday. Ocean Outdoor have also gifted advertising space and the appeal will run on large format digital screens at the same time in major U.K. cities including London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester.

UK TV history will be made tonight when an aid appeal seeking donations to help the Turkey-Syria earthquake disaster airs across 29 channels, narrated by Daniel Craig.

Hopes are high that a new family will take flight at Salford Quays this year. After four years of campaigning by one woman a pair of peregrine falcons are to get a little help to breed.

The family of a young woman who died after being found unconscious in a psychiatric hospital in Stockport accept her inquest had to be halted, their lawyers have said.

Award-winning pies, comfort food classics and school-dinner style puddings - Great North Pie Co has finally arrived in Manchester.

A host of companies in Greater Manchester are to sticking with their switch to a four-day working week after the completion of a UK-wide trial.