Network Rail says there will be disruption until Wednesday evening due to debris on the line.

Ellis Simms' double helps Blackpool ease past Oxford United in their League One play-off semi-final first leg.

Two former soldiers succeed in getting a Cheshire Regiment memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum.

Are the electoral gains made by the Greens on Merseyside a sign of things to come in the region?

Anthony Gelling told the court he was trying to stop his then-partner reversing their car into him.

Deborah Nilsson spent some of the £20,000 on a new kitchen, new bathroom and a family holiday.

Lucy Letby is accused of killing eight babies while working on a hospital neonatal unit.

The Indian variant of Covid-19 now makes up the majority of new cases in Bolton.

Blackpool's hoteliers welcome back tourists while holidaymakers fly out from Manchester to Portugal.

Investigators are working in "the most awful conditions" in Heysham, the fire service says.

Blackburn with Darwen's public health chief says people will be "surprised how eligible they are".

Thousands of people got jabs in Bolton over the weekend as the town battles the Indian variant.

Liz McIvor tells the story of the early canal builders who struggled with the rugged terrain of England's Pennine hills. Creating a network of canals in this landscape was an uphill challenge - sometimes literally! But connecting the powerhouses of Yorkshire and Lancashire was a great prize at the time of the industrial revolution. What should the engineers do? Should they build over, under or around the hills? Who succeeded, and who struggled?

This is the story of the men who built our canals - the navigators or navvies. They represented an army of hard physical men who were capable of enduring tough labour for long hours. Many roved the countryside looking for work and a better deal. They gained a reputation as troublesome outsiders, fond of drinking and living a life of ungodly debauchery. But who were they? Unreliable heathens and outcasts or unsung heroes who used might and muscle to build canals and railways?

We focus on the Manchester Ship Canal - the swansong for the navvies, hailed as the greatest engineering feat of the Victorian age. The navvies worked at a time of rising trade unionism. But could they organise and campaign for a better deal?

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Cheshire-based Gandeys Circus has been working with the government on pilot schemes for the return of live events ahead of officially reopening.

The projects have taken place at holiday resorts and led to suggestions of new measures to help tackle the spread of Covid-19.

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Binky Beaumont, from Gandeys, said it was great to get back to business.

“Everything is coming together,” he said.

“We have had artists flying in over the last two to three weeks who are in isolation, they have to have their Covid test, they have to be in isolation for 10 days, then they have to isolate and have daily test and temperature checks before they are allowed to start and join the rest of the cast for rehearsals, because it is such a big cast.”

Arooj Shah says she wants to motivate other Asian women and recalls facing misogyny and racism.

The latest news, sport, travel and weather from across the West Midlands and south Cheshire.

Players from dozens of Sunday league teams pay tribute to Jordan Banks, who died on Tuesday.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Trafford on Sunday afternoon.

Two-year-old George Hinds died in the explosion, which happened in the early hours of Sunday.