Manchester bar One Eight Six given go ahead to reopen two years after devastating fire on New Year's Eve

Alex Batty - who was missing for six years before being reunited with his grandmother in Oldham - has revealed he wanted to return home to have a better future.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has shared the proposed, new State Pension and benefits payment rates to come into effect from April 8, 2024. State Pensions will rise by 8.5 per cent, as per the Triple Lock policy, while most benefits will increase by the September Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation figure of 6.7 per cent.

Manchester city council has released its updated bin collections for Christmas and New Year 2023 — and is also encouraging Mancs to recycle.

Gary Lineker had some harsh words for Manchester United after their Premier League clash with Liverpool, saying it was like a "League Two team going to Anfield and hanging on for a draw."

Sydney Sweeney is bringing her new movie to Australia!

It’s not long until Christmas Day, which means that New Year’s Eve is just around the corner. Many of us will be thinking about how to say goodbye to 2023 and say hello to 2024.

Alex Batty is back in the UK and 'with his family', six years after he went missing. The teenager from Oldham who disappeared in 2017, aged 11, has flown back from France where he was found earlier this week.

So the rumors from earlier this year are true: Noah Baumbach is returning to Netflix for his next film. But the rumor mill got the leads of the film wrong or at least one-half of them.

Manchester's much-loved tiki bar The Liars Club has announced its closure. The late-night venue located on Back Bridge Street confirmed the news this afternoon and said that it will close its doors for good at the end of December.

Dave Chappelle is set to release a new stand-up special on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. It comes two years after the comedian received a backlash due to comments he made about the trans community.The new special was announced on X (formely Twitter), with the streaming service’s official Netflix is a Joke account posting a short teaser clip with the caption: “Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special will launch globally on Netflix, December 31st.”The currently untitled special will be Chappelle’s seventh for Netflix.

Taylor Swift is attending her second movie premiere in as many weeks, and she’s supporting another famous friend in the process.

Will Smith has shared an updated on his highly anticipated I Am Legend sequel – see what he had to say below.Speaking at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia this past weekend (December 2), Smith spoke briefly about the upcoming zombie film’s sequel, which will also star Creed‘s Michael B. Jordan.For the film, Smith will be reprising his role as Robert Neville. Smith confirmed at the film festival that I Am Legend 2 will retcon the original film’s ending, and will instead follow the alternate ending in the film’s DVD version.“I have a call with Michael B.

The Pentagon has said an American warship and multiple commercial ships have come under attack Sunday in the Red Sea. 

Ashley Cain has opened up about his unborn baby's health battle after he announced that he is set to welcome his second child in the new year. The former footballer, 33, has shared the happy news that he and a close friend will be welcoming a baby boy in January, two years after he tragically lost his daughter Azaylia to cancer at just eight months old. However, they were left concerned after the 20-week scan, when doctors identified a potential heart defect.

Ashley Cain is becoming a dad again two years on from the tragic death of his daughter Azaylia, whom he shared with Safiyya Vorajee. The tot heartbreakingly died in 2021 aged eight months, after a battle with a rare form of cancer.

Footballing ace Ashley Cain has revealed he's going to be a father again, just two years on since tragically losing his daughter Azaylia to cancer. Sharing the news with The Sun on Sunday, Ashley, 33, broke down in tears as he recalled visiting his daughter’s grave to tell her the news that she was going to be a big sister.

In a packed courtroom, a voice quivering with nerves could be heard from behind a screen.

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.

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival launched its third edition on Thursday with a characteristically starry red carpet featuring the likes of Michelle Williams, Johnny Depp, Sharon Stone and Will Smith.

While Will Mellor is currently best known as Coronation Street baddie Harvey Gaskell, many people remember him best from the hit noughties show Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.The 47-year-old actor played mechanic Gaz Wilkinson for over a decade on the BBC sitcom, alongside a cast that included Death in Paradise's Ralf Little and stage star Sheridan Smith. Speaking exclusively to OK!, Will revealed that a script for the reunion - written by the show's original creator Susan Nickson and aptly called Two Pints – Last Orders - is ready and available and he'd love to bring it back to our screens.