The Mancunian Way: ‘They will not forget and they will know what to say to the next person’
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. It marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Dozens of affordable homes coming to 'somewhat monotonous' real-life Waterloo Road
Dozens of new houses will be built near the real-life Manchester street that gives its name to a hit BBC drama.
Ammanford school stabbing live updates as teenager stands trial accused of trying to murder teachers and pupil
A girl has gone on trial accused of attempting to kill two teachers and a fellow pupil at a school in south Wales. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, accepts she took a bladed fishing tool into her school and stabbed two adults and a pupil on Wednesday, April 24 last year but denies attempting to kill them.
Wigan primary school celebrating after getting top marks across the board from inspectors
A primary school on the outskirts of Wigan town centre is celebrating after receiving an across-the-board ‘outstanding’ grade by inspectors. Since last September, Ofsted no longer gives an overall effectiveness assessment.
It's supposed to curb vaping... but could cause a boom in 'dangerous' black market sales
It is set to tackle a surge in vaping. The Government is hoping to crack down on streets filled with clouds of sweet-smelling flavoured smoke and a rise in young children puffing on the addictive, electronic devices.
It was supposed to be a celebration, then the men with guns came
Tomi Kolomy never did find out what happened to his father.
'My daughter came to visit me for her tea yesterday and it took her an hour to get two miles'
Villagers on the outskirts of Wigan are being ‘driven to despair’ by choked-up roads, too much new-build housing and a GP surgery struggling to handle the influx of new patients. That was the unanimous verdict of people in Standish as the Local Democracy Reporting Service watched the roads fill up in the village centre at school ‘going home time’.
‘I couldn’t bear it any more’: Crushing guilt led this Air France pilot to quit his dream job
“When I was in my plane watching the forest fires from above, I couldn't help but feel responsible.”