Summary

  • Four men arrested over attack at Manchester nightclub Factory 251

  • Emmeline Pankhurst statue unveiled in Manchester to mark 100 years since women first voted

  • Man who had ears cut off in Blackburn attack dies

  • Boy, 17, arrested after 79-year-old woman badly hurt in carjacking

  • Manchester join current hosts London on shortlist to host the 2021 ATP men's tennis tour finals

  1. Arrest after death of man found injured in streetpublished at 10:47 British Summer Time 29 May 2021

    A teenager is arrested after a man, believed to have been hit by a vehicle, dies, police say.

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  2. What is Fernandinho's Man City legacy?published at 06:15 British Summer Time 29 May 2021

    Fernandinho could end his Manchester City career on the highest of highs in this Saturday's Champions League final against Chelsea - if he decides to leave.

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  3. The 'very human lesson' from Hillsboroughpublished at 00:58 British Summer Time 29 May 2021

    As the collapse of the last criminal trial marks the end of a long legal road, Judith Moritz asks what the legacy of Britain’s worst sports disaster is.

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  4. Surge testing over 'Indian variant' in Lancashirepublished at 20:37 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    People living in some areas of the county are being urged to get tested after a rise in Covid cases.

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  5. Jennings ton gives Lancs big Roses leadpublished at 18:41 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    Keaton Jennings leads the way for Lancashire with 114 as they build a commanding Roses match lead over Yorkshire.

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  6. Businessman 'was target' of shot that killed womanpublished at 18:21 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    A tyre shop owner tells a court a drive-by gunman who killed a passer-by "was looking at me".

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  7. Rodriguez unhappy at Colombia omissionpublished at 18:08 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    Everton midfielder James Rodriguez says he is filled with "great disappointment" after being left out of Colombia's squad for the Copa America.

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  8. Police-chase car in wrong way M60 fatal crashpublished at 17:46 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    The BMW crashed into a Vauxhall while going in the wrong direction on a motorway, investigators say.

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  9. Judge rules to withdraw life support of girl, 2published at 16:51 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    Alta Fixsler will move to a palliative care regime, despite her Jewish parents' wishes, a judge rules.

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  10. Zoo Covid fund closes after just 12% awardedpublished at 16:27 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    Chester Zoo says a £100m government fund for zoos which is closing was "too difficult to apply for".

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  11. Stabbed man was 'thrilled' he was to become a dadpublished at 16:21 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    "Caring" Charlie Elms, who died following a disturbance, will "missed by everyone", his girlfriend says.

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  12. Coercive control trial date set for Giggspublished at 15:36 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    Ryan Giggs is accused of deliberately headbutting his ex-girlfriend and controlling her.

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  13. Blackpool to Manchester Victoriapublished at 15:12 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    There is terror on the tracks in Blackpool as Michael Portillo embarks on a new journey across Bradshaw's Britain with his Victorian guidebook. He makes potent new friends in Fleetwood then heads to Manchester, where George Stephenson built the world's first modern railway line. This epoch-defining achievement is being incorporated into a new multimillion-pound rail link between Manchester's Victoria and Piccadilly stations, and Michael lends a hand with the welding. At a moving ceremony in Manchester Piccadilly station, Michael unveils a new monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway, who lost their lives in the Great War.

  14. Manchester Piccadilly to Silkstone Commonpublished at 15:11 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    Michael Portillo's journey from the Irish Sea to the North Sea continues by tram from Manchester. At the imposing town hall of the world's first industrial city, Michael comes face to face with the Victorian scientist who invented modern atomic theory. He then heads to the city's National Graphene Institute, where he learns to make the groundbreaking material invented there by two Nobel Prize-winning scientists. His Bradshaw's leads him to an 18th-century settlement built by refugees from Europe.

    Next, deep underground at Standedge, Michael discovers an ambitious Victorian engineering marvel. At Silkstone Common, he tracks down the forge where a Victorian metallurgist created wrought iron axles strong enough for railway rolling stock and is delighted to discover the works operates its own miniature train.

  15. Listen: Cheshire v Cumbria in National Counties Trophypublished at 14:53 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    Cheshire host Cumbria at Didsbury Cricket Club in the National Counties Trophy - listen to BBC Radio Cumbria commentary.

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