Stockport council leader’s bold green belt claim as bosses commit to masterplan consultation

There’s no show on Saturday for the planned “When We Were Young” music festival in Las Vegas.

Talks are now to take place over a call for night trams for workers, lone women and revellers in Salford. A debate on whether to ask Transport for Greater Manchester to introduce trams until 2am on weekdays and 4am at weekends stalled at a Salford city council meeting because of lack of time.

The past week has seen two major events from Manchester Council cancelled, with Bonfire Night displays called off last week before the Christmas Lights switch-on was also given the boot on Monday.

Villagers still fear houses could be built on green space in Standish - despite Wigan Council refusing to sell their own land to developers. Some 145 objections were received after the council announced the proposed sale of the land at Chorley Road - suggesting this section of the Whelley Loop Line walkway could play a vital part of the Standish Neighbourhood Plan agreed in 2019.

A vulnerable teenager in Manchester's care system is being moved to an unregulated home after living in hospital for three months. The family court heard on Wednesday (October 12) that Manchester council had spent that time trying to find a suitable home for the 13-year-old.

Mayor Andy Burnham has said people need to 'cut Manchester City Council some slack' over their decision to axe the city's Bonfire Night celebrations due to 'escalating costs'.

A mum has shared a Poundland product that's helping to prevent mould build up at home. With families not wanting to have the central heating on as much amid the rising cost of energy, damp can quickly become a problem.

Firefighters were called to a blaze in an abandoned building close to a row of shops in Stockport last night.

Approaching the building, you would never have guessed the exotic oasis that lay inside.

A thug went for a beer with his girlfriend after knocking a Sikh leader out and callously leaving him in a pool of his own blood in the middle of the road. Avtar Singh, 62, suffered life-changing brain injuries following the sickening assault at the hands of Claudio Campos in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on June 23.

A country house hotel on the outskirts of Bolton will not be used for asylum seeker accommodation after intervention from an MP and Bolton Council.

Rebekah Vardy will have to pay about £1.5 million towards Coleen Rooney’s legal costs after losing the “Wagatha Christie” High Court case she brought against her fellow footballer’s wife.

Chelsea manager Graham Potter has already made his feelings on Cristiano Ronaldo clear despite being forced to dead-bat suggestions he wants to sign the Manchester United superstar. Speculation over Ronaldo and his future remains at fever pitch after he failed to secure a desired move away this summer.

Rebekah Vardy has been ordered to pay £1. 5 million towards Coleen Rooney's legal costs after their libel trial earlier this year. The 40-year-old TV star has been told by the high court that she must cover 90 percent of Rooney's legal fees following their high-profile court case in May, which was dubbed the 'Wagatha Christie' trial.

Former coal mines that have transformed into Wigan and Leigh ’s popular green spaces have been nationally recognised as nature reserves. What were once colliery areas known for smoke and soot, loved for their huge employment boosts in their hayday, have now become the ‘lungs of Wigan’ that dog walkers, bird watchers and nature lovers now aspire to visit.

Stockport is to get a new £17m special school after 'much-needed' plans were signed off by town hall bosses. Named Pear Tree Academy, the secondary school will provide places for up to 133 pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including children who have autism.

‘ Wigan has enough houses’ says one councillor who proposed the borough should withdraw from the Places for Everyone plan. Coun James Watson, of the Independent Network, saw his plan to join Stockport in opting out of the plan and pursuing Wigan’s best interests thwarted by Labour members in the town hall chamber this week.