The massive scheme will transform one of Manchester's poorest areas and create thousands of jobs for local people.

Natalie Russell and her childhood sweetheart Ryan Murphy, both 22, received a blessing and exchanged rings after her condition suddenly worsened.

The National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA), a force watchdog, reached the damning conclusion in a report, the inquest into the death of PC Ian Terry heard.

Eagle-eyed Gortonians are being sought by the Gorton 100 committee to help try and solve a mystifying riddle.

It is much more than a seasonal pipe opener for the Elite League Aces against their traditional rivals who now race in the Premier League.

The slimmed down 21-year-old looked impressive at Huddersfield Sports Centre on Friday and his power punching was a sight to behold.

Ex-Accrington striker Leighton McGivern was Martyrs’ four-goal hero as they avenged last season’s semi-final defeat to Langley by beating the Middleton big guns 4-2 to book a quarter-final trip to Oldham League champs Chaddy End.

Ethiopian long distance legend Haile Gebrselassie (pictured right) will chase a hat-trick of wins in the Bupa Great Manchester Run on May 16.

The National Cycling Centre has won the right to host the fourth and final meeting from February 18-20, 2011.

The competition, which is played on the big board, starts at 1.15pm and strike-out is at 1pm.

The early Clayton pressure paid off as Connor Kelly chased a scuffed clearance and calmly lobbed the outcoming keeper to go ahead. Jayden Pollard then finished off a nice through pass to double the lead.

Actress Kym, along with fellow soap actor and boyfriend Jamie Lomas, visited the Crumpsall hospital last Thursday afternoon to help celebrate the opening of a new lounge for breast cancer patients.

The development will be sited next to the GMP force headquarters, which is also currently under construction, and will replace Bootle Street, Newton Heath and Grey Mare Lane police stations.

Croquet, quintessentially a British game and steeped in history, is coming to the Grade II listed park in August when four teams from across the world battle it out as part of the WCT World Association Croquet Team Championships.

A national newspaper has suggested this will form part of the proposed redevelopment of the supercasino site, whereas another publication is suggesting it will be built at the stalled 1,100-home Dreyfus Village development, at the former chemical works off Clayton Lane.

Items on the agenda included controversial plans for housing at a local beauty spot near the River Irk and for flats at Needham Hall in Didsbury.

The plans include building 120 residential properties, both flats and houses, on the former Bowker Bank Dye Works, along the beautiful River Irk in Crumpsall – designated as an area of biological importance.

We'll have live coverage of the meeting on this site from 2pm on Thursday.

The city's Jewish Museum, housed in an old synagogue in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, has won recognition from Prince Edward for its work educating the community.

Joanne Terry fought back tears as she delivered a heartfelt eulogy to husband Ian at an inquest into his death.

Ashley Ponsonby, 30, from Blackley, walked out of North Manchester General Hospital at 12.30pm on March 2 and hasn't been seen since.

They seized counterfeit clothing including, fake Ugg and Timberland boots, Nike trainers and bogus items by Ed Hardy, Adidas, Stone Island and G-Star.

A number of different plans unveiled this week include a £4.4 million cash injection which should see the opening of a stunning new marina in New Islington in the autumn, 400 new homes planned for Moston and Harpurhey and 1,500 jobs to be created for long-term unemployed young people.

Chantelle Walcott, 25, pulled one of the girls up the stairs by her hair and attacked her. She also tried to punch another as she tumbled into a bath.

The gorgeous Staffordshire Terrier cross puppies were rescued and taken to Manchester Dogs’ Home in Harpurhey after they were found shivering with cold at Chorlton Park in south Manchester.

Solaman Tahir, 25, of Farrer Road, Longsight and Mohammed Harun Tahir, 31, of Moss Park Road, Stretford, are charged with possession of a Class B drug with intent to supply and production of a Class B drug.

A formidable army of 1,800 cadets from all three forces, stood until their knees wobbled collecting money for last year’s Poppy Appeal. Their determination, and the public’s generosity, paid off after a record total of £112,505 was raised – the highest in the country.

The cutbacks, which chiefs pledge will involve no compulsory redundancies, emerged as the council approved its budget for the next year.

Two men went into the William Hill shop on Ashton New Road, armed with an axe and hammer at around 6.30pm on Monday, March 1.

The Manchester Jewish Museum, in Cheetham Hill, revealed last year that it was suffering a funding crisis.

Pioneering textile company P Frankenstein & Sons was pivotal in development of the spacesuit that allowed Neil Armstrong to walk on the lunar surface.

Over 10,500 electors votes will be counted in Manchester Central constituency when the country goes to the polls in the next few months.

Mr Lloyd, who is Lloyd MP chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party said: “Michael Foot passing away signals the end of a great life and an era in politics but his memory will live on in the work of those inspired by him and in those who will read his writings.

Our reporter Deborah Linton will be filing the latest news from Manchester town hall. At 9am, the council executive will consider proposals for joining forces with other Greater Manchester authorities to make decisions over policy areas such as transport.

United fan Dave Tatlock was paralysed by shrapnel embedded in his spine two years ago.

Kind-hearted fashionista Sharine McKenley-Walters, from Openshaw, has pledged to donate 10 per cent of profits from sales of clothes at her new venture at Gorton Market until the end of March.

Qassim Afzal said that minority faiths, including Muslims, Methodists, Mormons and Quakers, were banned from entering any draw and consequently would be penalised.

Giuseppe Gregory, 16, of Ardwick, was killed after shots were fired at the

car he was in outside the Robin Hood pub in Stretford,

Hiruy Zerihun, 18, of Lloyd Street South, Greenheys, and Njabulo Ndlovu, 19,

of Croydon Drive, Newton Heath, are accused of being the ‘murderous gunmen’

behind the attack in a Manchester Crown Court trial.

They had to be told that Pc Ian Terry's injuries were real and not part of his role playing a fleeing villain.

Peter Corry had an underlying condition of bronchial pneumonia which had clogged up his arteries and caused him to go into cardiac arrest, an inquest heard.

On the first occasion Catherine Arnold suffered marks to her neck which she photographed on her mobile camera phone.

Kelly Williams, 28, knifed the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after a booze binge in May last year.

The 48-year-old victim, came home to his flat at Nelson Court after a night out, in the early hours of Saturday, February 13, but he forgot to lock the door as he came back in.

Rat running, pollution and noise would be the likely consequences for Blackley residents, according to the Labour Member of Parliament. in the vicinity."

Tony, 58, of Crumpsall, has 14 convictions for different crimes in the 1980s.

Leon Hough, who was two-and-a-half times above the limit, drove in to a field and hit a railing, Manchester Magistrates’ Court was told.

Three men with covered faces ran into McDonalds, on Oldham Road, demanding cash just after 2pm on Sunday February 21.

The fatal drill in which Pc Ian Terry was killed hadn’t been signed off, as it should have been, by two senior officers, an inquest into the death has been told.

Vintage transport enthusiasts have been in talks to bring four 1930s trams – including two double deckers – to Manchester.

Greater Manchester Police have named the five most wanted offenders in each of its division as part of Operation Sabre and want the help of readers to take them off the streets.

Gladys Scriven, from Moston, died in February 2002, aged 89, after being admitted to North Manchester Hospital with a fractured hip following a fall at her care home.

William Raimondo, 24, of Buckley Road, Gorton, was sentenced, on February 22, for using the name Fabio Simoes to dishonestly obtain Job Seekers Allowance, Housing and Council Tax Benefit amounting to £17,605.23.

The three Gorton men, who along with a mob of 20 terrorised the Ryder Brow area, were sentenced on Monday for surrounding and threatening a PCSO telling him they were going to break his legs on July 29 2009.

Two officers pulled Amy Keigher’s handcuffed arms from behind her back into a vertical position with her chest against the custody desk at Collyhurst police station, Manchester Crown Court was told.

Pc Jason Hanvey, 37, is one of four officers and a Greater Manchester Police employee on trial accused of assaulting and threatening two teenage girls.

Mum-of-two Liz Shaw was horrified when she asked son Callum, 13, what he wanted to be when he was older - and he casually replied: ‘A gangster’.

A financial plan drawn up by officers warns that the economic crisis will make the next three years among the most challenging the city has ever faced.

But the teenager, of Longsight, was told by a judge he had ‘learned nothing’ from the tragedy as he was locked up for nine years for drugs and firearms offences committed after he was released from prison for the manslaughter of Kamilah.

Thousands of spectators are expected to line the streets of Cheetham Hill as the parade winds its way towards the Town Hall and the Irish Festival Market on Albert Square.

The Franciscan ‘Fryer’, who has become a dab hand with a spatula, dishes out breakfast at the Gorton allotment where he keeps his brood or delivers fresh eggs to shelters for the destitute.

Corporal Mike O’Neill, from Moston, was deployed to the war zone to film Operation Panther’s Claw – the international forces’ high profile campaign to clear Taliban strongholds – last summer, ahead of the Afghan presidential elections.

We have reporters joining police on raids and at GMP headquarters - see their live updates here ...

After he was collared, Kenneth Snabities, 21, took police on a tour of the Longsight area, pointing out nine more homes he had plundered.

BAFTA-award winning journalist Lucy Meacock, the main news anchor on Granada Reports for the past 20 years, spent an afternoon teaching pupils at the Manchester Creative and Media Academy in Moston.