Chester Road: Last News

It won't be long until thousands of runners take to the city streets to compete in the Great Manchester Run 2022.

Shop workers described hearing a 'loud bang' when a pavement 'exploded' in a Manchester retail park today. Emergency services were called to the blast in White City Retail Park in Old Trafford this afternoon.

Manchester Evening News reports.A statement from Greater Manchester Police reads: "Emergency services are currently in attendance at Owen Street in the Deansgate area of the City Centre, following the discovery of a potential suspicious item."A number of flats have been evacuated as a safety precaution and a 100m cordon is currently in place whilst EOD make their way to the scene to make an assessment."We are working closely with GMFRS and NWAS to ensure this incident is dealt with quickly and safely."A notification sent to residents reads: "Due to a police incident, please could you evacuate the building immediately, please could you message any communal WhatsApp groups please could you add it onto these and request all towers to evacuate."Reporter Lyell Tweed has been tweeting from the scene, writing: "This is the Whitworth Street West side, police tape is blocking every street into the towers."Residents are camped outside the towers as police carry out work."Much more police on Chester Road, can’t see too much going on but people so seem to be able to walk inside the cordon still."To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.Resident Hannah Whitehead told local news reporters: "We have an app for the Towers for announcements, and we got a few messages telling people to evacuate ASAP."It was telling people to let all their friends to evacuate. We evacuated and the police have turned up and told people where to go, and a cordon has been put in place."There's tape all around, there's lots of police and the bomb squad have turned up now.

Just off Chester Road, overlooked by the tower cranes and skyscrapers of Manchester's never-ending building boom, there's a little corner of the city that's steeped in history.

A man is in hospital with 'serious injuries' after being found lying in the middle of a road in the early hours of this morning (February 12).

A Stockport man who died in a ‘serious’ car crash in Cheshire last weekend has been named.

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Police are appealing for CCTV footage after a £250k Ferrari was wrecked in a crash in the city centre.

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direct to your inboxA 35-year-old woman remains in hospital in a critical condition after her bike collided with a car in Stretford. The cyclist, whose name has not been released, suffered a severe brain injury following the crash on Chester Road.

direct to your inbox A man has died following a flat fire in Macclesfield. Firefighters were called to the blaze on Chester Road on Friday afternoon.

straight to your inbox every day for freeIt's Wednesday - derby day - and the streets around Old Trafford are all but deserted.In more normal times Sir Matt Busby Way would be thronged with thousands of expectant supporters making their way to the ground for one of the biggest games of the year.But since the pandemic struck and professional football was initially suspended, then allowed to continue without fans, it's been a different story.Matt Bonilla is the general manager of The Trafford, a long-standing supporters' pub just a stone's throw from the stadium on Chester Road.On match days the cavernous boozer - its walls lined with United memorabilia and signs saying "half and half scarves" which are beloved by tourists are banned - would

Manchester Evening News can reveal.Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes and workplaces in Hazel Grove.Police were called to reports that a suspicious item had been found at a property on Chester Road at around 4.15pm on Thursday, September 10.Law firm O'Neill Patient Solicitors confirmed they were contacted by GMP and told someone in its building had taken receipt of a package the police believed contained a 'suspicious item'.The firm's headquarters are on Chester Road.The law firm said however it was later confirmed by police to have been a 'hoax'.They said 'the package had not actually been delivered to O'Neills and that a mistake had been made by the Post Office'.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct

Police have evacuated a street after a 'suspicious item' was found at an address in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

The police watchdog has launched an investigation after a GMP officer Tasered a man in front of a young child at a petrol station.

A man has appeared in court following an incident in which police deployed a Taser at a petrol station.

Costa Coffee had to temporarily close its Old Trafford drive-thru after enormous queues formed at the weekend.

This is the moment revellers ignored lockdown rules and partied in a garden until the early hours of the morning.