The Mancunian Way: 'A shocking chronicle of failure'

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During the Manchester Blitz on March 11, 1941 Old Trafford football ground was hit by a bomb aimed for nearby Trafford Park industrial estate. It wrecked the pitch and demolished a large part of the stands.

The extent of the damage, which meant it would be another eight years before United played at Old Trafford, can be seen in this newly unearthed aerial photo, part of a fascinating new collection of pictures taken over Greater Manchester by the US army air force during the Second World War.

The photo, which also shows the old White City greyhound and speedway stadium in Old Trafford, details extensive damage to the roof of the stadium's former South Stand, now the Sir Bobby Charlton Stand. The black and white snaps were taken by US Army Air Forces (USAAF) Photographic Reconnaissance units, stationed at bases across England, in 1943 and 1944.

In today's newsletter we'll examine the latest twist in the Andrew Malkinson's wrongful conviction, take a look inside a South Korean-inspired black and white cartoon cafe and hear the powerful testimony of a dad whose 16-year-old son died after taking ecstasy at Leeds Festival.

It emerged today that as far back as 2007 police and crown prosecutors reportedly knew that another man's DNA was on the clothes of the woman Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned for raping - but he remained in jail for another 13 years. Mr Malkinson, 57, was found guilty of raping a woman by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford, in July 2003 and was jailed for