Hour-by-hour forecast for Greater Manchester as heavy snow falls

England have beaten India by 227 runs in the first Test in Chennai to go 1-0 up in the four-match series.

direct to your inboxThe Home Secretary has slammed the 'appalling situation' at GMP and vowed to 'hold everybody to account' for the force's failings. Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday Priti Patel said a 'force improvement plan' had been put in place in the wake of a damning inspection report in December.

Real Madrid are reportedly ready to sell Raphael Varane this summer, if the central defender does not commit his future to the club.

Rio Ferdinand reckons Manchester United have blown their chance of ending their Premier League title wait after conceding a last-gasp equaliser against Everton.

Shola Shoretire could make his first-team debut for Manchester United this season after being fast-tracked into the first team.

Jamie Carragher has identified the disadvantage Jurgen Klopp has in trying to dominate English football the way Sir Alex Ferguson did.

A barrage of heavy snow from the Beast from the East 2 is set to continue across many parts of the UK with thousands warned to avoid travel.

Heavy snow and freezing temperatures as low as -15C have been predicted for parts of Scotland.The Met Office has also issued amber weather alerts for Fife, Perthshire and Stirlingshire from 3am to 9pm on Tuesday.In the south of the country, people could see -10C, in what BBC Weather meteorologist Billy Payne sais is the most significant cold spell since the Beast from the East three years ago."We'll see further snow showers over the next couple of days and widespread overnight frosts and ice with temperatures for some not rising above freezing," he said.Storm Darcy brought the bitter cold blast with strong easterly winds, causing temperatures to plummet to freezing levels.Some roads in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cumbria and Hertfordshire have

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United are monitoring targets with a view to reinforcing their central defence in the summer transfer window.The MEN understands United are open to spending a significant sum on a new centre half or a forward in the summer, depending on how they fare between now and the end of the season.United have the worst record of the Premier League top 10, having conceded 30 goals in 23 games - six short of their goals against tally last season and with 15 games remaining.League leaders Manchester City have let in just 14 goals following the transformative £64.3million signing of Ruben Dias, shortlisted as a potential target by former United manager Jose Mourinho in 2018.At the other end, United are

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They announced in October that they were expecting a baby together.And on Monday, Nick Kroll and Lily Kwong revealed that they'd welcomed their son last month.Kwong, 32, posted a blurry photo of the infant with a close-up of his feet and shared on Instagram: 'Welcome to the world little one — our beautiful baby boy joined us earthside on 1/21/21.

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Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have dropped by 77% and 44% over the past month, respectively, said LA County Health Officials on Monday. That’s great news for the country’s hardest-hit region. The question remains, however, if new variants of the virus will create another surge.

Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand revealed he would have been left “screaming” in the dressing room at one player’s error against Everton.The Red Devils lost ground on Premier League leaders Manchester City as they concede a late goal in a 3-3 draw with the Toffees.It saw several fans lay into goalkeeper David de Gea for not closing down Dominic Calvert-Lewin quickly enough.But Ferdinand, who won six top-flight titles and a Champions League at United, pointed to Aaron Wan-Bissaka - who gave away possession in the build-up to the free kick for the equaliser - as the source of his anger.Speaking on his YouTube channel Rio Ferdinand Presents FIVE, the United hero said: “I was fuming before that free-kick.“Aaron Wan-Bissaka… he’s go to

direct to your inbox Firefighters are battling a large blaze at a builders merchants in Stockport.

Boxer Amir Khan has given son Muhammad a £30,000 Rolex watch as a present on his first birthday.

Sloan is taking a trip down memory lane in honour of their 30-year anniversary.

West Ham boss got a boost ahead of tonight’s FA Cup tie with Manchester United when Thomas Soucek won his appeal for wrongful dismissal.But Moyes reckons the fact Soucek was sent off at all for a clearly accidental elbow on Fulham’s Aleksandar Mitrovic, who fell on the floor, sums up football’s problems.He believes that despite VAR, cheats and divers are going unpunished while football’s nitpicky lawmakers tinker with rules nobody understands anymore.Moyes, who has taken charge of over 500 Premier League matches, said: “I think at the moment we're appalled by the levels creeping into the game.“People who have been in football a long time feel they are in an industry where they don’t know the answers to anything.

direct to your inboxA police professional standards probe has been launched following the arrest of a cafe owner after officers were called to a lockdown breach. Lucjan Domanski, 38, was arrested on Sunday afternoon as police responded to reports of '100 people' in the Kate & Luc Cafe in Burnage.

direct to your inboxThe police watchdog warned GMP a key post in dealing with any terror attack could be 'overwhelmed' with work in the event of any terror attack just a few months before the Arena atrocity.It also outlined concerns over how prepared unarmed officers and control staff were if there was a marauding terror attack in the city.The fears were said to have been reported to an assistant chief constable of the force on November 3, 2016, following a week-long inspection of GMP's readiness for any terror attack.An independent inquiry into the attack heard that force duty officers across the country reported feeling 'ill-equipped' to deal with a mass terror strike and one told the police watchdog: "I get two days on how to command a