Moss Side: Last News

The smell of jerk chicken filled the air in a sun baked Moss Side today as the second and final day of the long-awaited return of the Manchester Caribbean Carnival took to Alexandra Park. The carnival had returned this weekend after a two year Covid enforced hiatus, and there couldn't have been a better weekend weather wise to have returned.

A restaurant has been stripped of its alcohol licence after a ‘shocking’ early-hours brawl which saw belts, bricks and street furniture used as weapons and a man left ‘knocked out cold’ in the middle of the road. Mesob, in Moss Side, was hit with the ‘draconian’ punishment after licensing chiefs heard the venue was open four hours later than it should have been when the fight broke out at 5am on Sunday July 3.

Dramatic photos show a bullet-riddled car after a 16-year-old girl was blasted in a drive-by shotgun attack in south Manchester. Police are hunting the gunman who opened fire at a crowd at a party outside a house in Moss Side on Friday.

A 16-year-old girl was shot after a gunman opened fire at a crowd in a drive-by attack in Manchester's Moss Side. By sheer luck the victim's injuries are not serious.

Furious campaigners have spoken about their 'rage' at a letter sent to around 50 people banning them from the Manchester Caribbean Carnival. GMP's Xcaliber task force, an anti-gang unit, is understood to have sent the letters out recently to residents for the popular community event returning next month.

Coronation Street newcomer Jodie Prenger embarrassed herself by curtsying when she met ‘‘soap royalty’’ William Roache for the first time.The winner of the TV talent series I’d Do Anything has landed her dream role on the Street as Glenda – the sassy sister of undertaker George Shuttleworth.READ NEXT: Coronation Street star Kimberly Hart-Simpson announces new role after quitting soapBut meeting the cast for the first time proved daunting, and the singer and actress explained: “I have just met Bill Roache and I don’t know what I did with my body but it was like half a curtsy and I went to do a shake.‘‘It just didn’t work out and I just made a bit of a weirdo of myself but he was so lovely.”Jodie reckons her signing to Corrie was written in the stars. She said: “My family are all from Manchester – Moss Side.

The grieving families of two men shot dead during a lockdown party in Moss Side have described their continuing pain on the second anniversary of the shocking double murder as the police hunt for the 'dangerous' prime suspect continues.

One of the UK's longest standing Polish folk dance groups is appealing for new members. And it hopes to attract new dancers while it performs at Góbéfest later this month.

Yasmine El-Gabry would have never considered herself to have 'green fingers'. The 30-year-old dismissed gardening as a pastime for ‘old people’ until she left her home in California for a new life in Moss Side.

Shocking footage captures a police chase through a Greater Manchester town. Stuart Haslam led cops on a terrifying pursuit - before trying to hide in bushes.

A young man who died after being hit by a car in south Manchester has been named as 19-year-old Cameron Pearman. The fatal incident happened on Princess Road in the early hours of Sunday (May 7).

Our city’s finest will be flocking to the Kimpton tonight for a celebration of Manchester’s unsung heroes. The Manchester Evening News Pride of Manchester awards, in partnership with TSB, honour Mancunians with incredible stories to tell.

Labour has apologised for calling one of its Manchester council candidates a 'councillor' in a campaign letter sent ahead of the local elections next week. The letter sent on behalf of new candidate Erinma Bell appears to jump the gun by telling voters in Moss Side that she is their 'local Labour councillor'.

A Manchester council candidate has been accused of misleading voters by sending campaign letters with a local address despite not living in the area.

A man and a woman who were found dead in neighbouring flats have been named as David Harry and Monika Eisen.

A tight-knit community has been left in shock after police investigations continued into the discovery of two bodies in neighbouring flats. Police were originally called to an address in Princess Road, Moss Side, at around 4.20pm on Saturday to reports of a woman dead before being called to the neighbouring flat to a concern for welfare of a man just under three hours later.

Alice, not her real name, was dragged into an alleyway in Moss Side, stripped and raped at gunpoint by a young gangster and aspiring boxer, Emmanuel Richards, in the mid 1990s. She was 13, in care and a virgin. He was still 15 but, physically, a brute, nicknamed 'Tank'.

A teenager who chased a 16-year-old boy while armed with a knife just wanted to 'scare' him., a court heard. The 17-year-old defendant, who can't be named for legal reasons, claimed he and others had followed 16-year-old Rhamero West after seeing him drive at a drug dealer 'as if he was going to run him over'.

A man appeared in court on Monday after a group of football agents were allegedly held at gunpoint in an armed robbery in Moss Side. Among those included Dane Rashford, the brother to Man United star Marcus Rashford.

A new documentary will tell the story of the remarkable life and untimely death of Moss Side boxing hero Phil Martin

Police have issued an urgent appeal to try and find a missing teenager who 'may have travelled to Manchester'.