A huge car park party is taking place at the Trafford Centre - with mass karaoke

Adamari López left all her stress behind as she enjoyed her sunny vacation in Cartagena de Indias, where she arrived with her perfect travel companion, her daughter Alaïa. For her fans, this visit to Colombia is a special one, as this is the first time since she started her health journey and in a long time that she posed in a two-piece bikini, proudly showing off the her weight loss.Ready to have a good time, on a walk on the beach Adamari shared a little bit of her experience at the bachelorette party she was attending.

KATE Garraway has revealed she's worried she'll eventually run out of money to pay for husband Derek Draper's round-the-clock care. The 54-year-old made the confession during an appearance on This Morning to talk about her recent documentary, Caring for Derek.

KATE Garraway says her good friend Ben Shephard was "concerned about her sanity" when she revealed plans to fly her husband Derek Draper to Mexico for a long COVID clinical trial. The Good Morning Britain presenter admitted it sounds "bonkers" because Derek still requires 24/7 care at home after his body was ravaged by coronavirus in 2020. She admitted he currently "flags" after 20 minutes in a wheelchair - leaving her co-host worried for her.

A PROMISING actor who appeared in Coronation Street died at the age of 27 after "falling ill" in Costa Rica. Joseph Owen Wandera, 27, died in January after having a seizure while on holiday as heartbreaking tributes poured in for the "gifted visionary." The actor appeared on Coronation Street in 2018, where he played a buyer interested in purchasing Eileen Grimshaw's car.

John Cale has announced that he’ll be heading to the UK this summer for his first full run of tour dates in almost a decade.The last time the Velvet Underground multi-instrumentalist hit the road this side of the pond was for his ‘Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood’ European tour back in October 2012.The Welsh musician’s tour will begin in Liverpool at the Royal Philharmonic Hall on July 15, before calling at Whitley Bay, York, Bexhill, Cambridge and the London Palladium, before closing out the run at Birmingham Town Hall on July 25.According to a press release, Cale will “perform songs from throughout his career, which is now in its sixth decade, and has earned him an international reputation as a musical pioneer”.“TOUR News! Hello UK I’m heading your way in July! My first extended run of UK dates in several year,” Cale said, sharing the dates on Twitter.TOUR News! Hello UK I'm heading your way in July! My first extended run of UK dates in several years. Tickets on sale Friday from https://t.co/evSuIopxNn pic.twitter.com/Yy1Ef0mELW— John Cale (@therealjohncale) February 24, 2022Tickets go on sale on Wednesday (March 2) at 10am.

The Pokémon Company has announced that a new Pokémon Presents broadcast will air this weekend.Announced via Twitter, the publisher confirmed that the upcoming Pokémon Presents will take place on Sunday, February 27 at 2 PM GMT / 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET.The broadcast will be 14 minutes long and feature a pre-recorded video, according to the post. So far, The Pokémon Company hasn’t revealed any information about what fans can expect during the presentation.In a separate post on its website, the publisher confirmed that the presentation would coincide with the day Pokémon Red and Green (the first Pokémon game) was released on February 27, 1996.

it has gone into administration.Intu said it has filed to appoint James Robert Tucker, Michael Robert Pink and David John Pike from KPMG as administrators for the company.The announcement came minutes after the London Stock Exchange suspended shares in the shopping centre owner.The news has left many questioning whether shops inside the Trafford Centre, and those inside other Intu properties will continue to operate. Follow live updates from this breaking news here. Intu has now confirmed that Trafford Centre shops will continue to operate for the time-being.A statement on Intu's website reads: "Underlying group operating companies remain unaffected and all shopping centres are continuing to trade."The intu Group’s relationships with its

hereThe planning process in order to build the vast mall was the most lengthy and drawn-out in British history as the original idea was first dreamed up back in 1986 by wealthy John Whittaker, of Peel Holdings.Manchester City Council vehemently opposed its development and felt it would impact negatively on the city centre economy.The Trafford Centre offered thousands of free car parking spaces as it lured people to embrace the Utopian concept of out-of-town shopping.The planning issue was finally decided in the House of Lords a decade later.Once it got the go ahead, the Trafford Centre took more than two years to build at a cost of £600 million and was - for a year - the largest shopping centre in the UK.It briefly lost its crown when the

Trafford Centre owner Intu has confirmed it has collapsed into administration after failed talks with lenders on Friday.

Ah, the intu Trafford Centre... Manchester’s gilt-edged temple to all things retail with its Greco-Roman architecture and row upon row of marble statues.But have you ever noticed something a bit weird about all those statues?Like the fact they’re mostly naked women?If you think we’re being a bit picky, then let me ask you this, how many nude or semi-naked women statues do you reckon are on display at the Trafford Centre?Ten? Twenty? Fifty?Erm, no, it’s actually over 100 fully or partially naked ladies.

any news about the future of the Trafford Centre when we have it.

The owner of some of the UK's biggest shopping centres has warned it's on the verge of calling in administrators, in a move that could place more than 17 outlets at risk of closure.

Lakeside, Manchester Arndale and the Trafford Centre are amongst shopping centres that could be forced into closure, after retail giant Intu warned it will have to call in the administrators if it cannot reach a rescue deal with lenders.

here"Unfortunately, insufficient alignment and agreement has been achieved on such terms.

Intu's Trafford Centre has issued an urgent warning to shoppers planning to visit during the mini heatwave we're currently having.Posting on its Instagram story yesterday, the intu shopping centre wrote: "It's going to be a scorcher.Yesterday saw temperatures in Manchester exceed 30C, with today's weather expected to be even hotter in some areas.Sharing a post on Instagram, the shopping centre wrote: "During busy periods, you may have to queue outside - do don't forget some suncream and your water!"The Trafford Centre fully reopened to shoppers on June 15, as non-essential shops began to open up for the first time since lockdown started.However, some things in the shopping centre have changed to ensure staff and shopper safety, with one of

hereIt cautioned that if it cannot reach an agreement and is placed in administration, then without critical up-front funding from its lenders, “there is a risk that centres may have to close for a period”.Owners Intu Properties is trying to negotiate a freeze on loan repayments to its banks but demands from landlords is increasingly making this unlikely.Earlier this month, Intu secured debt waivers until June 26 but said it still expects to breach its debt commitments by this deadline amid falling rental payments.The company said at time that it would put agreements with creditors on hold to ride out the current crisis.Intu was already under financial pressure as it came into the coronavirus pandemic, selling properties in the UK and Spain

whose share price fell sharply in February after talks with a potential investor collapsed. The London-based property company had to issue an emergency call for investment over its estimated debt of £5bn.

hereA video from the scene shows staff mopping up water on the walkway between the main part of the mall and Barton Square.A spokesperson for intu, which owns the Trafford Centre, said: "Unfortunately, parts of Barton Square were flooded as a result of today’s storm."Some areas of Barton Square were closed whilst the clear up operation was completed, but were quickly opened again."The rest of the centre remained open for business as usual." Elsewhere there was also flooding reported at Streford Mall and Crown Point shopping centre in Denton as torrential rain and thunder and lightning battered many parts of Greater Manchester.

The Trafford Centre and Manchester's Arndale had originally reduced their services to shoppers as many stores were forced to close, but today both shopping centres are back up and running again. The Trafford Centre's opening hours will be Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 12noon-6pm.

On Monday, the Trafford Centre will open its doors to shoppers, as many of its 'non-essential' shops begin to operate for the first time in months.But while some shoppers are looking forward to things returning to 'normal' (or at least the new normal), some big changes have been put in place to ensure staff and shopper safety.Individual stores will have their own rules and guidelines for staff and shoppers to follow, but the Centre itself has gone to every effort to ensure that social distancing protocol is followed, and that shoppers keep their distance and clean their hands as frequently as possible.Upon arriving, shoppers may be asked to wait in a queue outside the Trafford Centre, to ensure that maximum shopper capacity is not

The Trafford Centre has adapted existing footfall-monitoring technology so stagg can accurately guage the number of people in every centre at any time. It will manage queues outside the centre when centres are at capacity.There will be a raft of other measures - including one-way systems, floor stickers and queues outside stores to ensure visitors stay socially-distanced once inside.'Enhanced hygiene regimes' introduced at the start of the outbreak will continue, with more deep cleaning of 'key areas' and 'touchpoints', such as escalators, toilets and keypads.