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

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

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

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.

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.

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

National Museums Liverpool say they had 200,000 visitors in 2020 compared to three million previously.

Liverpool agree to sign French central defender Ibrahima Konate from RB Leipzig for £35m on a long-term deal.

North London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham will face each other in the quarter-finals of the Women's FA Cup.

A man suffered a stab wound in Silloth and has been airlifted to hospital.

Emergency services were called to Pennine Close in the town at 10:30.

A 29-year-old man from Liverpool was found with serious injuries and was airlifted to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, Cumbria Police said.

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St Joseph's Hospice's furniture shop and warehouse were destroyed in the Aintree fire.

The former US president gives his backing to footballer and anti-poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford.

Manchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford talks to former US President Barack Obama about how young people can impact society.

Two bus operators are challenging the franchising proposal in a judicial review at the High Court.