Summary

  • Key updates on Friday 3 May:

  • Local elections: Minor parties make gains across North West

  • Labour celebrate 'stunning' win in Trafford

  • Wirral Council hung after gains by Tories and Greens

  • Bid to oust Liverpool mayor launched after polls close

  • Labour loses seven seats and control of Bolton Council

  • Lancashire: Labour make gains in Chorley

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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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  9. Covid-hit museums launch appeal to avoid cutspublished at 14:08 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

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

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  10. Liverpool agree £35m deal for Konatepublished at 13:38 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

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

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  11. Arsenal to face Spurs in Women's FA Cuppublished at 13:07 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

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

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  12. Man airlifted to hospital with stab woundpublished at 12:51 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

    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.

    Pennine Close, SillothImage source, Google
  13. Hospice 'humbled' by help offers after blazepublished at 11:12 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

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

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  14. Obama praises Rashford in Zoom meetingpublished at 01:46 British Summer Time 28 May 2021

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

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