Theresa May says the family of those killed in the Hillsborough disaster have been “cruelly denied” justice.

Reuven Rivlin asks the Prince of Wales to help a Jewish girl after it is ruled her life support can cease.

Michael Portillo reads the riot act in Preston, where he discovers four mill workers were shot dead by soldiers at a protest in 1842. In Darwen, he makes a splash in pink as he traces developments in 19th-century interior design from wallpaper to paint.

Michael explores the Victorian industrial landscape of Salford, populated by little matchstick figures, as revealed in the paintings of LS Lowry. Michael finishes this leg of his journey on Kersal Moor, where he twists his tongue around the Lancashire dialect and discovers the poetry of Edwin Waugh.

On the last leg of his journey through north west England, Michael Portillo makes a clean sweep in Ashley, where, in Victorian times, the new middle classes set up home in suburban villas with multiple chimneys, swept by children.

In Macclesfield, Michael finds the end of the Silk Route and tries his hand at screen printing. After stoking the fire on the steam-powered Churnet Valley Railway, Michael alights at Froghall for Alton Towers, to trace the 19th-century origins of the modern theme park.

People in the north-west of England welcome extra help to tackle a rise in the Delta variant.

Three people were stabbed at the Manchester shopping centre, prompting a large police response.

Ilkay Gundogan donates the bonus he received for helping Manchester City win the Premier League to help his childhood club fund a new artificial pitch.

Extra support - including surge testing and vaccine buses - are provided to Covid hotspot areas.

First-time buyers share their experiences of trying to get on to the housing ladder.

The Manchester Arena bomb scene was so dark it made it harder to treat casualties, an inquiry hears.

The measures include military support and in-school testing in areas hardest hit by the Delta variant.

A Labour MP and a Conservative chairman object to plans to carve up the City of Chester constituency.

A woman criticises a new police scheme which allows domestic abusers to meet their victims.

A changed map could bring small but possibly significant changes to the area's representation.

A fundraising plumber opens up his front garden as a space for people to remember loved ones.

Rupert Everett's daughter says she is "desolate" her father is not alive to read a critical report.

A woman and three men fled the scene after a car and ambulance collided in the early hours.

Former Lancashire and England bowler Paul Allott is to step down as the county's director of cricket.