New Rochdale Boroughwide Housing boss appointed as Awaab Ishak scandal continues

Sky have launched The Overlap On Tour series on the back of Gary Neville’s successful podcast series.

Maisie Smith showed off a brand new look as she spent some time with her family after recently leaving her hometown to live in Manchester with her boyfriend Max George. The former EastEnders actress was seen alongside her lookalike mum as she headed back to Southend after moving out of her family's home in March.

Yaya Toure has revealed he is leaving his role at Tottenham’s Academy to take up the position of assistant coach at Belgian side Standard Liege.

Good quality homes are important to everyone. Although often overlooked, housing is one of the most important sectors for providing stability and strength to the economy during difficult financial climates. CouncillorBev Craig, the Leader of Manchester City Council, rallies behind the urgent need to fill job roles and increase support for this growing industry.

Slowdive are back with a new single, and an upcoming album.Today (June 20), the band have released a new single, ‘Kisses’. The track – which was first announced last week – is taken off their upcoming album, ‘Everything Is Alive’.

Manchester United want to sign a new first-choice goalkeeper this summer.

Claire Sweeney has jokingly shared what has been the most ‘traumatic’ part of her new job after landing a role on Coronation Street. It was announced back in April that the Brookside legend will make her way onto the cobbles as Cassie Plummer.

Manchester United have been linked with a move for Ollie Watkins as they aim to solve their problems in attack.

Missing people investigations are an expensive but necessary part of policing in Greater Manchester. But an innovative approach to a problem which can bring anguish and trauma to famlies could potentially save the force £7m a year - and help the loved ons of those who vanish.

The landmark Owens Park Tower could be demolished under new plans for Manchester University's Fallowfield campus. University bosses have unveiled proposals to replace existing accommodation with what they describe as 3,300 'new bedspaces' on the site covering Owens Park, Oak House and Woolton Hall.

The owners of a popular south Manchester chocolate shop are set to open a second shop at the site of Ramsbottom's famous Chocolate Café.

Sitting on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and surrounded by the Saddleworth Moor on the edge of the Pennines, it’s no wonder the village of Uppermill is one of the most desirable places to live in Greater Manchester.

Tributes are being paid to former Rochdale AFC and Stockport County manager John Hollins after his death aged 76.

Soon after bombshell Leah Taylor entered the Love Island villa on Monday night Molly Marsh revealed that she already knew her. The new arrivals sent shockwaves through the villa as the boys were chosen for dates and the girls eagerly watched on from the balcony to spy on their new competition. Molly was one of the Islanders who was left feeling a little frantic after the arrival of Leah and fellow bombshell Charlotte Sumner as Mitchel Taylor and Zachariah Noble were both chosen for dates.

Gemma Atkinson has said it was the 'last thing she thought' she'd end up seeing her fiance Gorka Marquez doing as she saw him in a new light while settling into maternity leave together. The couple are currently preparing to welcome their second child together any day now.

Commuters could face another day of Metrolink disruption as work to repair damaged overhead lines continues.

The former Ritz Cinema car park in Stockport town centre is to be sold off for housing. The authority's economy and regeneration scrutiny committee is recommended to back disposal of the land when it meets on Thursday night.The Fletcher Street site is currently used as a surface-level car park but council bosses say their vision for the site is as a’ high- quality residential development in this important town centre location’. A report set to go before the scrutiny committee says it would bolster regeneration of Town Centre West, the 4,000-home ‘urban village’ driven by the borough’s Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC).

Metrolink services will remain disrupted throughout today due to overhead line damage, Transport for Greater Manchester has confirmed.

A Rochdale AFC fans group says it has ‘great concerns’ over proposals for new parking restrictions around the club’s home ground. People living in the Spotland area have received a leaflet setting out a potential residents’ parking zone covering the streets surrounding the Crown Oil Arena.

A former rail boss has spoken out against scrapping plans to build two new platforms at Manchester Piccadilly. The plans for platforms 15 and 16 date back more than a decade and have been waiting to be signed off since 2015.