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Would you pay £200 to sit on the floor of a train outside a toilet? Probably not willingly, but that's what has happened to a number of Avanti customers according to city council leader Bev Craig. She's very unhappy about the rail operator being handed a six-month stay by the government - despite months of chaos.

We'll be discussing that story, as well as the latest on the search for Keith Bennet and the hospitality closures across Manchester, in today's newsletter.

A new search for the body of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett has been called off after officers spent a week at a site on Saddleworth Moor, but found nothing.

Police excavated an area near Dovestone Reservoir after they were shown a photograph taken at the site by author and amateur sleuth Russell Edwards. Mr Edwards had shown the image to other experts, who said it appeared to show part of a child's jaw bone.

It’s understood Mr Edwards did not see the jaw bone at the site but noticed it when analysing photographs taken during the dig. None of his team actually saw the apparent jaw bone in the soil - only on a photograph, M.E.N chief reporter Neal Keeling writes.

Greater Manchester Police commissioned independent forensic experts and anthropologists to scrutinise the photograph and decided it was enough evidence to warrant a search - which has since failed to find any 'visible evidence' of human remains.

Detective Chief Inspector Cheryl Hughes says Mr Edwards initially went to police after finding what he