The return of Manchester’s rag trade, and Osborne’s statement
Manchester’s rag trade is booming – yes, really. Here’s what it means for the economy – and five more things to watch out for in Osborne’s autumn statement.
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It’s the last big game of the 2012-13 football season – no, not the Champions League final. Malcolm Boughen looks at the successes and failures among teams who have made it to the Premier League.
After EDL protesters gather in Woolwich and three mosques are attacked overnight, a helpline reports a rise in reports of anti-Muslim abuse amid fears of a backlash.
The government faces protests as it launches the controversial new universal credit benefit system as part of major changes to welfare.
Prime Minister David Cameron tells the Commons that his Conservative predecessor Margaret Thatcher was an “extraordinary leader and woman” who made Britain great again.
A man who killed a two-year-old boy when he blew up his house, destroying neighbouring properties, is jailed for 10 years.
Footballing minnows prepare for their day in the limelight in the FA Cup fourth round against the biggest clubs in the Premier League.
Police are warning that a batch of contaminated ecstasy tablets could be circulating in the Wigan area, following the deaths of two young men from the same town.
Manchester’s rag trade is booming – yes, really. Here’s what it means for the economy – and five more things to watch out for in Osborne’s autumn statement.
A man is fined £145 and given a community service sentence for mistakenly handing bags of cocaine instead of sweets to the trick-or-treating children of a police officer.
Manchester stands shoulder-to-shoulder today, heads bowed in prayer, to pay respects to two female officers killed in the line of duty
The two constables killed in Greater Manchester are among hundreds of officers to have died doing their job, including Sharon Beshenivsky, Yvonne Fletcher and Keith Blakelock.
Great Britain’s male artistic gymnastics team wins its first Olympic medal since 1912 – in an unexpected result that will give encouragement to the rest of Team GB.
As a former accessible travel advisor tells Channel 4 News that travel for disabled people could be “impossible” during the Games we follow four London journeys to put disabled transport to the test.
As a judge sentences a paedophile gang who passed girls as young as 13 around for sex to a total of 78 years in jail, he has strong words about the influence of race on the case.
A paedophile grooming gang who passed girls as young as 13 around for sex after plying them with drink and drugs are facing jail.