Manchester council is finally rated 'Good' by Ofsted for first time ever

Top image: Emily wears a  Shawl collar cardigan, £349, lace off-the-shoulder dress, £749, and raffia wide belt, £179, all Polo Ralph Lauren; espadrille sandals, £18, AsosFrom left: Martha Stewart, the OG of coastal grandmother style; think Diane Keaton in her role as Erica Barry in ‘Something’s Gotta Give; Jessica Alba wears an effortless example of this lookMy top tip: The majority of the fabrics you’ll be wearing for this look are delicate, so pay close attention to the care instructions. Your dry cleaning bill might go from moderate to intense overnight, so invest in good laundry products to wash on a delicates cycle or by hand where possible.

IF you've ever watched a soap and thought one of its characters looks familiar, it may be that you had a poster of them in your bedroom when you were growing up. That's because a surprising number of pop stars have ditched the glitzy music scene to star in the UK’s beloved soaps.

THRILLED This Morning stars Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby today announced they would open the Blue Peter time capsule to reveal treasures from the past. However, when the top was cracked off they were confronted with a mountain of foul-smelling brown sludge.

EASTENDERS actress Danielle Harold gave fans a look inside her sun-soaked holiday after jetting off following the Soap Awards. The soap star posed in a bikini on Instagram just days after The Sun revealed her character Lola will be killed off later this year.

Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd showed fans inside his luxury birthday trip to a hotel reserve. The actor, who plays David Platt in the ITV soap, rented a £1,200-a-night wigwam standing 7m tall that boasted panoramic views of the stunning Kent countryside.

LOVE Island has been thrown into chaos after male model Zach Hartman pulled out of the show at the last minute. The hunky star - who has shot campaigns with Jack Wills, Ralph Lauren and ASOS - was due to fly to the villa this week as a bombshell arrival. However he decided to quit the opportunity to protect his career forcing bosses to get a last-minute replacement.

Carson Burton Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American rights to “The Good House” from Amblin Partners, in association with Participant. The film will have its U.S.

ETs will almost certainly be artificially-intelligent robots, predicts the Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees of Ludlow.And it’s likely that sooner or later, we’ll have been replaced by AI robots too.Lord Rees told the Cheltenham Science Festival that mankind would almost certainly be “superseded” by artificially intelligent super-robots within the next millennium.Lord Rees says that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is likely to turn up something very unlike us.“What will we expect this life to be like? I think if we were to detect anything . .

baby names, it could take parents weeks or even months to make a decision.Some mums and dads often base their choice on the popularity of the name or trends.Now the users of popular parenting forum Mumsnet have been debating names they'd avoid and why.The debate went on as some mums said they'd steer clear of anything like Jayden, Kayden and Hayden.In the end, the women came up with a list of the 10 "worst" baby names, reports Indy100.Some names are fairly common too, as Cameron and Mia rocked up on the list.One said: "Any names that are too strongly and negatively connected to another person or an event or memory. "I'd always just be making comparisons in my mind."Meanwhile other online users said they disliked barrelled names that end with May or Mai.

Joan Jett has excoriated SeaWorld at its annual shareholders meeting over its alleged animal abuses, in particular its purported methods of forced breeding.The rocker appeared virtually on behalf of PETA, calling for an end to the company’s “sordid breeding program”.She said: “SeaWorld has caused public outrage by continuing to forcibly breed bottlenose dolphins and beluga whales in order to create generations of animals who then suffer in cramped tanks, deprived of any semblance of a natural life” [quotes via Consequence].Jett continued: “In the park’s breeding program, unwilling female dolphins are taken from the water and sometimes even drugged so they can’t fight back while SeaWorld staff thrust tubes filled with semen into their uteruses.“Some must endure this process repeatedly, only for their babies to die or be taken away and shipped off to other marine prisons.“We can all agree that sexually abusing dolphins and whales who must carry out their forced pregnancies is disrespectful to these forms of intelligent life, heedless of these wonderful animals’ rights, and just plain wrong. My question is this: When will SeaWorld end its sordid breeding program?”In a statement shared with Billboard SeaWorld said that it’s “more important now than ever to educate the public about marine animals” and to have “healthy populations in accredited and certified zoological settings” such as their own.“Having a zoological program allows us to be one of the foremost experts in marine mammal research, rescue, and rehabilitation.

Manchester City may have just landed Erling Haaland in one of the most high-profile transfers in football history, but there are plenty of deals which have seemingly been erased from all living memory.Needless to say, every transfer is completed with the intention of inspiring success and improving a team, but the reality is often very different. Every once in a while, a club signs a star name only to see the move sensationally backfire.Sometimes a player's spell is so underwhelming that all evidence that it ever occurred appears to have been wiped out without a trace.

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trapped its members indoors and ordered them to strip off in front of children. The bizarre practices of a religious group in Rustenburg, South Africa are set to be laid bare in court as arrested church-goers have been summoned to the dock.Even police officers arriving at the house-turned church were told to get naked before entering to investigate claims of strange activity, including members being forced to share a massive bucket for a toilet.

cigarettes, Dr Gareth Nye, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Chester, has said there is still ‘reasonable’ potential for lung damage and cancer.Elf Bars have become extremely popular across the UK, with online vape platform IndeJuice reporting a huge 279% increase in disposable vape sales during the final quarter of 2021.However, Dr Nye predicted a ‘whole generation’ of 30-year-olds experiencing lung conditions in the next 10 years.Talking to The Mirror, he warned: "There is limited scientific evidence regarding these products, mainly [regarding] the liquid used to vape with, rather than the vaping device itself.”He said that the liquid in vapes such as Elf Bars can contain nicotine and some of the other harmful carcinogens and toxicants found in cigarettes.Because of this, the vapes still have the potential to cause lung damage and cancer, as well as cardiovascular damage.Dr Nye added that although e-cigarettes aren’t packing the carbon monoxide and tar found in normal cigarettes, there are other chemicals found in vapes that can cause long-lasting damage to smokers’ lungs."A 2018 study showed that e-cigarette users had concentrations of metals and volatile chemicals (toluene, benzene, and carbon disulfide) comparable with those of cigarette smokers," he said."These are the chemicals causing the long-lasting lung damage."As well as lung damage, vaping has also been linked to oral cancers, as well as dental conditions like tooth decay.Dr Nye urged people to think before they inhale chemicals into their lungs, something he explained causes a reaction from our immune systems, which in turn damages the lungs.When we've damaged our lung tissue, it’s harder for our bodies to oxygenate blood.

Danielle Armstrong certainly has a lot going on right now. Not only is she mum to her energetic two-year-old daughter Orla, but she’s also frantically planning her summer wedding to beau Tommy Edney. And when we catch up with her, she’s busy packing for her hen do.

Victoria Beckham could succeed in making nightwear look glamorous - and her latest Instagram post proves the former Spice Girl has nailed the knack of making sleepwear stylish.SEE: Sunkissed Victoria Beckham poses poolside with daughter Harper SevenThe wife of David Beckham took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a photo from her catch-up with close friend Eva Longoria. The 48-year-old fashion designer was the epitome of elegance in a chic striped pyjama set in 'Midnight-Blue White' from her own fashion brand.WATCH: Victoria Beckham films her beauty routine in slinky bathrobeVictoria layered with a soft cotton robe in co-ordinating pinstripe, embroidered with her initials on the pocket.

Love Island has suffered another blunder as a second contestant has quit the show before making their way into the villa. Male model Zach Hartman was reportedly set to make his way into the Majorcan villa this week as a bombshell, but pulled out at the last minute. According to The Sun, Zach told friends: “I was meant to be going on Love Island this year and flying out this week.

Shay Robertson, 51, who works in a garage, surprised fiancée Julie McLean, 53, with a ready-made wedding day.The couple, both parents from Northampton, tell the story of how Shay following his dreams led to true love and happiness… As his fiancée Julie walked down the aisle dressed in a beautiful lace gown, Shay Robertson, rocking a smart blue suit and a neatly trimmed beard, was bursting with pride.Their wedding was 11 years to the day since they first met. But back then they were Sally and Julie, both mums of two. Now they were about to become husband and wife after Sally underwent five years of gruelling gender reassignment surgery to become Shay, a man whose looks are based on the singer and actor Shayne Ward.

for defamation.“To my dying day, I will stand by every word in my testimony,” Heard, 46, told the “Today” show in an interview teaser that aired early Tuesday.Still, the actress admitted that the wild testimony that led to her brutal courtroom loss also painted her and her superstar ex in the worst possible light.“I would not blame the average person for looking at this and how it’s been covered and not think that it is Hollywood brats at their worst,” she conceded to Savannah Guthrie.Her comments came on the second day of footage from a “wide-ranging sitdown” to air in full Friday at 8 p.m. ET.On Monday, clips showed her also saying that she was not surprised that the Virginia jury ruled against her — because they fell for the “fantstic actor.”“How could they not come to that conclusion? They had sat in those seats and heard over three weeks of nonstop relentless testimony from paid employees and — towards the end of the trial — randos,” Heard told Savannah Guthrie with a nervous chuckle.“I don’t blame them.

Stretford has been chosen as one of five towns to get a huge chunk of money toward improving its high street.

Tom Parker’s widow has revealed that she gave Ed Sheeran crystals to say thank you after he helped pay for some of her husband’s medical bills which she says gave her more time with him.