'We were messaging our friend asking to meet up - not knowing he'd been tragically killed'

Labour has hit out at the government over a funding miscalculation that means Greater Manchester schools will receive £22m less than they were originally told they would get. The Department for Education (DfE) has apologised for the 'technical error' in the announcement.

“Today,” which was published on Thursday.“I had texted the girls the day we found out,” he said. “They were destroyed. It’s a brother dying.”Perry died at age 54 following an apparent drowning at his California home on Saturday.

released a joint statement about Perry’s death just hours earlier.“We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just cast mates.

Matthew Perry’s appearance on HBO Max’s “Friends” special in 2021 due to his past struggles.“Yes, I was concerned about him,” she told “Today” show’s Hoda Kotb in a pre-taped interview, which aired on Wednesday. “Knowing that he’d been through everything he’d been through, and every time he had surgery they’re giving him opioids for pain, and the cycle starts over again.”“So, yes, I was concerned about what point in the cycle he was in that moment.”Just days before the highly anticipated gathering — which brought together Perry and his former co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer — Perry had “emergency dental surgery.”“They did all sorts of things,” the actor told Diane Sawyer during a sit-down that aired in October 2022, adding that the procedure “made [his] mouth feel like fire.”Fans noticed Perry’s slurred speech during the two-hour special.“It sounded like my voice was off,” Perry acknowledged Sawyer.

Emmerdale fans have decided they 'know' who killed Craig Reed - and it's not one of the Dingles. A major new 'whodunnit' kicked off in the Dales on Monday night (October 30) after Craig's lifeless body was seen sprawled out in a field at the end of last week.

At the age of just 27, Mitchell Gowing's life had changed in ways he never could have imagined. He'd gone from working as a GMP dispatch officer, to being treated in hospital for a life-threatening illness.

Jacqueline Jossa has told fans she's 'scared' as she offered a major update about how her life is set to change once more. It was revealed at the end of September that the actress will be returning to Walford as she reprises her former role as Lauren Branning.

Two mums spent just £80 each jetting off for a 24-hour birthday trip to Ibiza - and made it back in time for the school run.

It’s October, the ghosts are looming and the darker nights creeping in as the spooky season falls upon us - Halloween. It has been a growing favourite holiday for both children and adults, with creating or choosing creepy costumes, hosting parties, pumpkin carving, haunted attractions and chilling horror films.

Tenacious D have announced the acts who will be joining them as support for their upcoming UK and European tour.Comprised of Jack Black and Kyle Gass, the duo shared news of an upcoming 2024 tour across the UK and Europe at the start of the month – dubbed the ‘Spicy Meatball Tour’.Now, the band have announced the two special guests who will be joining them for the upcoming dates next spring – namely Crusade and Dave Hill.“Please welcome our friends, Mr Dave Hill and Crusade, on the Spicy Meatball tour as we roll through Europe and the UK this spring!” the rock duo said in a new update.Crusade – a progressive metal band from Tennessee – will be joining Black and Gass during their run of European shows, which will start at the end of April.

Yousef Makki was unlawfully killed by his schoolfriend Joshua Molnar, a coroner has ruled. A second inquest had been held into the death of the 17-year-old, from Burnage, who was killed in Hale Barns, Trafford, on March 2, 2019.

Goldfinger to perform ‘Superman’ at When We Were Young Festival – check out the footage below.‘Superman’ is one of the many tracks that appeared on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtrack. ‘Superman’ first appeared on the tracklist of Goldfinger’s 1997 album ‘Hang-Ups’, but was popularised following its inclusion in the soundtrack for the seminal skateboarding video game two years later.Led by frontman John Feldmann (aka Feldy), Hawk himself appeared with the LA band to perform the song.

Coronation Street star Cherylee Houston has jokingly shared her relief at the Stephen Reid storyline coming to an end with her character unscathed. The actress will be known to fans of the ITV soap for playing Izzy Armstrong.

Rick Astley has claimed that Ozzy Osbourne once attempted to recruit a backing band for him.The ‘80s star told Classic Rock magazine that the former Black Sabbath singer was chatting to him during the height of his success, and made the impromptu offer.“He said, ‘Are you over here playing?’, and I said, ‘No, we’re just doing promo,’” Astley recalled. “And then went, ‘If you want to put a band together, let me know.

Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney were two integral cogs in one of Manchester United's most successful sides.

Blink-182 have released a heartfelt new single, ‘You Don’t Know What You’ve Got’.The track is the sixth and final single to be taken from their forthcoming album ‘One More Time’, which is out on Friday (October 20). It follows the previously released singles ‘Edging’, ‘One More Time’, ‘More Than You Know’, ‘Dance With Me’ and ‘Fell In Love’.The song delves into vocalist and bassist Mark Hoppus’ experience with cancer, of “long weeks of impending doom/Stuck in life’s waiting room”, but contrasts his dread with the poignant yet powerful realisation that “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s almost gone”. Hoppus was diagnosed with stage 4-A diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in 2021 but was declared cancer-free six months later.Check out ‘You Don’t Know What You’ve Got’ below:Meanwhile, Travis Barker revealed this week that he endured playing drums with Blink-182 in Manchester recently with bloody knuckles and fingers.In the image seen by Billboard are close-up cuts and scabs across his fingers and knuckles.

More than 6,000 two and three-year-olds were put in hospital last year by one illness. Greater Manchester health leaders are launching a campaign to make sure parents know how to avoid it.

A group of men whose friend was tragically found dead in a park after going missing have paid a heartfelt tribute to him - and have now set up a group for men to open up about their mental health struggles in his memory.

Madison Beer has announced her 2024 ‘Spinnin’ world tour that is set to kick off early next year in support of her LP ‘Silence Between Songs‘.The 52-date tour is set to commence on February 24, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. From there, the pop singer will make her way through Europe, making stops in major cities such as Oslo, Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Cologne, Warsaw, Munich, Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Milan, Barcelona and Madrid. Beer will then head to the UK In March with shows in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London.Her US dates will kick off in mid April in Minneapolis.

Steve Coogan stars as Jimmy Savile in a new BBC drama series about the disgraced presenter's rise to fame and his sickening crimes, which he hid in plain sight for decades.