The Mancunian Way: A poignant goodbye

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Well it's certainly been a wet and wild day here in Greater Manchester as Storm Babet rolled in. But fret not - those dark clouds are set to disappear by Sunday, meaning you can still make the most of the weekend.

Holed up with the heating on in a warm office, one Manchester Evening News editor this morning decided to send reporter Chris Slater out to face the elements. You can watch his commentary of the horrible weather, filmed in an anorak while standing on a motorway bridge over the M60, here. Well done, Chris, you’re keeping up a long-held tradition in news reporting.

Tributes have been paid to renowned satirist Tony Husband - who has been described as ‘one of Britain’s greatest cartoonists’.

His work - created at his studio in Gee Cross, Hyde - was as witty as it was heartfelt and emotional. His distinctive images peppered the pages of Private Eye for almost 40 years.

In fact, the 73-year-old was on his way to a Private Eye party on a boat on the Thames when he died of a heart attack on Wednesday, his son Paul said.

Writing on Facebook, Paul said his dad was on Westminster Bridge at the time. "It’s somewhat ironic that he somehow managed to survive 30 years of Private Eye parties but the one he didn’t make," he wrote. "I don't know what more I can say other than he was everything to me and everything I wanted to be.”

Tony's last cartoon - sketched on the train down to the capital - shows the cartoonist standing at Westminster Pier waving to the party boat as it sailed away.

Born in 1950 in Blackpool, Tony began his