Met Office explain the 'silent lightning' seen across Greater Manchester and UK on Sunday night

Disney's hit Broadway and West End musical Aladdin is flying into Manchester.

Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville fears Erik ten Hag could fall the same way as other post-Sir Alex Ferguson managers after presiding over a slow start to the season.

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The much-anticipated revival of Australian soap Neighbours has launched with a host of familiar faces alongside a glamorous-yet-mysterious new character played by The OC’s Mischa Barton.The new chapter of Neighbours saw fan-favourites Guy Pearce and Annie Jones reprise their roles as Mike Young and Jane Harris after the former flames rekindled their relationship in the “final” episodes of the series last July. Meanwhile characters Karl Kennedy (Alan Fletcher) and his on-screen wife Susan (Jackie Woodburne), also returned for the first episode, alongside Harold Bishop (Ian Smith) who was intent on showing new character JJ Varga-Murphy (Riley Bryant) his book about the history of Ramsay Street.

Courteeners played the relaunch of Club NME with Ladbrokes Live this weekend (September 15) in London.The Manchester band performed a career-spanning greatest hits set at London’s EartH, followed by a surprise DJ guest set from The Libertines’ Carl Barat and Gary Powell to close the evening alongside DJ Rowena.Tickets were free to punters who queued around the street to guarantee entry, reintroducing the classic indie disco night that first launched in 2005 and became a staple of the club scene from London to Sao Paulo and beyond.Taking to the stage for their first London show since March, Courteeners launched into cuts from 2013 album ‘Anna’ including ‘Are You In Love With A Notion?’ alongside classic ‘St Jude’ hits like ‘Cavorting’ and more.The band played fan favourite ‘Sycophant’ from 2010’s ‘Falcon’, a song that frontman Liam Fray admitted he’d not “sung that one for a long time”. A rowdy crowd that had travelled from across the country climbed on shoulders for ‘The 17th’ from ‘Mapping The Rendezvous’, and ‘St Jude’s ‘Not Nineteen Forever’ and ‘What Took You So Long?’The Libertines’ Barat and Powell joined for a secret DJ set, which included mash-ups of The Killers and Gorillaz, alongside hits from Beastie Boys and more in a vibrant set.Speaking to NME prior to the show, Courteeners’ Liam Fray commented on their upcoming music.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief ‘Expendables 4’ narrowly took top place at the mainland China box office on a quiet weekend preceding the National Day holiday season at the end of the month. “A Haunting in Venice” opened outside the top five. Data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway shows “Expendables 4” earning $10.9 million (RMB78.6 million) over its debut weekend.

A heartbroken victim has demanded puppy farmers who made a fortune selling dying and mistreated dogs should be jailed.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Two Hollywood new releases, “A Haunting in Venice” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem” failed to make much of an impression on the South Korean box office in their opening weekend. Instead, local fantasy drama “Sleep” headed the chart for a second time. “Sleep” earned $2.38 million in its second weekend, a creditably modest 20% weekend-on-weekend decline, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).

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Claudia Fogarty enjoyed a cosy date with footballer Olly Crankshaw on Saturday, proving she's moved on from ex Casey O'Gorman for good.The Love Island star, 29, posted two photos from her evening with Olly, 25, who plays as a winger for Altrincham, on her Instagram Stories at the weekend, hinting that the pair have started dating. Claudia, who is the daughter of motorbike legend Carl Fogarty, shared an image of a cinema, where a large box of popcorn and a bag of sweets could be seen, before then tagging new beau Olly - whose social media accounts are private.

Katherine Ryan has revealed she was contacted by police after using her podcast to call-out adult men for 'harassing' her teenage daughter and niece.The mum of three, 40, told listeners last week that her daughter Violet, 14, and her niece Lily, 16, were harassed "everywhere they went" on a day out in London together. "Anyone looking at these girls, no-one is mistaking them for being adult women," she said. "Maybe someone might hope that Lily's 18.

The body of a man has tragically been found in a river in Bolton four days after he went missing.

The Health and Safety Executive are 'making enquiries' into a tragic incident in which a man died following reports of a wall collapsing at a house in south Manchester.

Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch has teased new music coming next year.The band’s last album, ‘Requiem’, came out in February 2022, and around the time of its release, frontman Jonathan Davis revealed they had already begun working on its follow-up.Now, Head has shared more of an insight in his appearance on Joe Rogan’s The Joe Kingdom Perspective. He didn’t go into particular detail about how the band’s 15th album might sound or how it might be released, but confirmed it would be happening nonetheless.

The Drew Barrymore Show was met with wide backlash, including from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), who picketed outside CBS Broadcast Center as taping resumed this week.Alyssa Milano told The Associated Press that it was “not a great move” on Barrymore’s part, while Bradley Whitford also spoke out against the decision.“Drew Barrymore would like you to know that undermining union solidarity at the most crucial moment in Hollywood labor history makes her the victim,” he wrote on Twitter. “This has been, like, a super tough week for her.”Barrymore initially defended her decision in a widely-shared video, where she insisted the return of the show would comply with the terms of the strike.

Abbey Clancy and her husband Peter Crouch have revealed how they were left mortified when their daughter overheard them making an X-rated joke during a family day out. The model, 37 and former professional footballer, 42 who share four children, Sophia, 12, Liberty, seven, Johnny, five, and Jack, three, shared the cringe-worthy story during their weekly podcast The Therapy Crouch.The dad of four confessed he "couldn't believe" what had happened. Speaking on the podcast, Peter shared that the family went to the park on a "nice and sunny" day and opted to get ice creams - he stayed with their dog away from the ice cream van in case he decided to "nick a kids ice cream or something".

Almost eight years ago today, Anthony Martial ripped Liverpool to shreds and became an instant Old Trafford hero.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” keeps climbing at the box office with more than $900 million in global ticket sales to date. Over the weekend, the R-rated historical drama added $12.8 million globally, including $10.7 million overseas and $2.1 million domestically. After nine weeks of release, “Oppenehimer” has grossed a staggering $910 million worldwide, with $318 million from North American theaters and $594 million internationally.