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If it appeared Manchester United were cutting it fine with the announcement of Manuel Ugarte, Erik ten Hag did not appear unsettled.

Scotland midfielder Billy Gilmour has signed for Napoli from Brighton.

The UK’s biggest free-to-attend Italian festival is returning to the city centre for three days of Italian food, drinks and culture.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian distributor Piper Film, Fremantle and Pathé have dropped the international trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” ahead of the widely sold film’s international rollout following its bow in May from the Cannes Film Festival. Praised in his review by Variety critic Siddhant Adlakha as “An exquisite treatise on cinematic beauty,” “Parthenope” is a love letter to the director’s native Naples.

Nigella Lawson has ruffled some feathers by whipping up a classic Italian pizza - but without any crusts.The TV chef shares a new dish every day with her 3.1M Instagram followers, and quipped that today's 'Recipe Of The Day' was 'Crustless pizza'.Topped with cheese, tomato, chorizo, ham and sweetcorn, Nigella shared a mouth-watering snap of the finished product and wrote alongside it: "Crustless Pizza is #RecipeOfTheDay. As I write in the recipe intro, I wouldn’t want to go bandying around the name of this recipe in Naples, but this is what I call it.

Rudy’s will be opening its 27th pizzeria next month in Greater Manchester.

Paolo Sorrentino has done a wide range of films but until his most personal, The Hand Of God two years ago (a prize winner in Venice) he had not returned to Naples, the land of his youth except for the very first feature he made, 2001’s One Man Up. Since then though he has been to Cannes with his films 6 times, and his impressive list of movies have included The Consequences Of Love, Il Divo, Loro, and his Oscar winning The Great Beauty. There have been more mixed reactions for his starry English language films as well like Youth and This Must Be The Place, but Italy seems to drive his creative mojo and may be closest to his heart is the current phase of his filmmaking career when he has found new inspiration by going back to his youth, first in The Hand Of God which closely reflected his own coming of age in Naples, and now his latest, Parthenope which reflects the youth he wished he had experienced. Instead he moved away to a whole new career in film (that was indicated at the end of Hand Of God). It had its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday night.

Siddhant Adlakha A decades-spanning drama about a young woman born in Naples — the hometown of writer-director Paolo Sorrentino — “Parthenope” is an exquisite treatise on cinematic beauty. Chronicling her birth, her youthful teenage summers and the years she spends adrift as a young adult, the film is an intoxicating reflection on the way people and places are seen, and the way they see themselves.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Paolo Sorrentino is back in Cannes for the seventh time with “Parthenope,” a love letter to his native Naples but also, as he puts it, a film about his “missed youth” that comes as a natural follow-up to his autobiographical “The Hand of God.” Perhaps more significantly, “Parthenope” – an epic spanning several decades – is Sorrentino’s first female-centric film. Why? “In thinking of a modern hero, it came naturally to me that it would be a heroine, not a man,” he tells Variety. Let’s start with the film’s titular protagonist, Parthenope. Of course, Neapolitans in Italy are also known as “Parthenopeans.” My impression is that, after returning from Rome to Naples to make “The Hand of God,’ your native city drew you further back into its fold. It’s a bit more complex, actually, not necessarily just linked to Naples.

Liverpool, Napoli, Ajax, Mo Salah, Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez, Giovanni Simeone and Mohammed Kudus.

Chorlton's beloved pizza haven Double Zero has once again found itself in the limelight after learning of another prestigious nomination.

A popular family-run bakery and deli in Salford has announced it is set to open a new pizzeria later this month aiming to ‘redefine’ Manchester’s pizza scene.

Greater Manchester has some pretty fine fish and chip shops, if we do say so ourselves.

The assistant of Roberto De Zerbi has admitted the Brighton manager could be tempted by a return to Napoli, should the opportunity arise.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Alamo Drafthouse is heading to the Sunshine State. The movie theater chain’s first Florida location will open in Naples in the spring. Alamo Drafthouse Naples will include a mini golf course in the lobby with each of the nine holes inspired by classic films.

MSC Cruises has just unveiled details of an amazing February flash sale, offering flight seats from as little as £99/€99 to the Mediterranean this summer.

They made for an unlikely alliance. One was the playboy son of a clothing tycoon who counted members of the Pakistani government among his close relatives.

EXCLUSIVE: The Sea Beyond stars Giacomo Giorgio and Serena de Ferrari are among several Italian actors who have boarded Rai’s ambitious opera drama Bel Canto, which went into production this week.

Strictly's Vito Coppola has a colourful love life - rumours about Helen Skelton, an affair with a co-star and a possible 'romance' with his current dance partner, Ellie Leach. Vito joined Strictly Come Dancing in 2022 after being on the Italian version where he had a fling with his co-star. The talented dancer, 31, born in Naples, is currently causing a stir with Coronation Street star Ellie, 22.

Manchester might not be the birthplace of pizza, but we certainly know a thing or too about how to create and serve up the perfect combination of dough, tomato, cheese and extra toppings.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent James Franco will play a U.S. Navy sailor stationed in post-World War II Naples, where he fathers a child, in gritty Italian drama “Hey Joe.” Directed by Claudio Giovannesi (“Gomorrah” TV series, “Piranhas”), the film is now shooting in the southern port city.