Stockport's oldest pub to reopen after lying vacant for over a decade

Coronation Street icon Sherrie Hewson is making a return to soapland and is set to become the genre's oldest serial killer who will "tear through her victims" on set. The actress and former Loose Women panellist played Maureen Holdsworth on the cobbles for five years in the mid 1990s and revived the character for a period in 2006. Earlier this year, the 73-year-old was announced as Hollyoaks ' newest cast member, playing matriarch Martha Blake, the estranged mum of the late Patrick Blake (Jeremy Sheffield), who was killed by his granddaughter Nico in 2016.

Good Morning Britain star Susanna Reid has spoken out about missing teenager Jay Slater, who disappeared in Tenerife on Monday 17th June. The 19-year-old was on holiday in Tenerife when he vanished, with authorities in Tenerife on their ninth day of searching for the Lancashire resident. Jay was attending a music festival when he reportedly called his friends to say that he was in the "middle of nowhere" and had one percent battery left on his phone.

2NE1 will meet up with Yang Hyun-suk, the head of their former agency YG Entertainment, amid reunion rumours.Earlier today (June 25), South Korean news outlet OSEN reported that all four members of 2NE1 have set up plans to meet with YG Entertainment founder Yang Hyun-suk. It comes shortly after previous reports that member CL had dinner with Yang prior to the group’s 15th anniversary in May.In response to today’s report, YG Entertainment has confirmed that 2NE1 “are scheduled to meet” with the K-pop agency’s founder.

ADOR has announced “enhanced safety measures” for girl group NewJeans following death threats against the quintet.NewJeans are set to hold their first-ever concerts in Japan in the next two days (June 26 and 27) at the Tokyo Dome. Their agency ADOR has since announced that it is “preparing enhanced safety measures with the Japanese concert planning company” for the upcoming shows, per News1 via Soompi.The K-pop agency’s statement comes just a day after a now-deleted death threat against NewJeans was posted on the South Korean internet forum DC Inside on June 24.

pre-order and pre-saving on streaming platforms.The album has been previewed by a new single, ‘She’s Leaving You’. The track is also accompanied by a music video that per a press release has been inspired by Creed’s Thanksgiving Halftime Show by-way-of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, mixed with ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’.Watch the music video for MJ Lenderman’s ‘She’s Leaving You’ below.Besides the newly released single, ‘Manning Fireworks’ has also been preceded by the single ‘Rudolph’, and other tracks like ‘Joker Lips’ and ‘Wristwatch’, which have already been performed live.Per a press release, ‘Manning Fireworks’ sees Lenderman deal with the success of his previous album ‘Boat Songs’: “Lenderman used that pressure to ask himself what kind of musician he wanted to be — one who could sort through his sea of cultural jetsam and one-liners to say something real about himself and his world, to figure out how he fits into all this mess.”A post shared by MJ Lenderman (@mjlenderman) 1. Manning Fireworks2. Joker Lips3. Rudolph4. Wristwatch5. She’s Leaving You6. Rip Torn7. You Don’t Know The Shape I’m In8. On My Knees9. Bark At The MoonThe upcoming record – his fourth – follows on from the three studio records that the indie guitarist has already released as a solo act: ‘MJ Lenderman’ (2019), ‘Ghost of Your Guitar Solo’ (2021) and ‘Boat Songs’ (2022).

Scarlett Johansson is joining the ranks of Jurassic World 4.The actress confirmed her participation in the upcoming entry of the dinosaur franchise film in a recent chat with ComicBook. While the film hasn’t received a title or a release date, it already has a script, a director and its first major actor attached to it.Jurassic World 4 is due to be directed by Godzilla and The Creator filmmaker Gareth Edwards, while its script was written by returning Jurassic Park writer David Koepp. Johansson said of the film’s screenplay: “The script is so incredible.

Lauryn Hill has announced a new set of tour dates with the Fugees.It comes after a run of dates of ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’ were cancelled last November after the artist cited a “serious vocal strain for the past month”.She has since returned to performing with a handful of shows across February, March and April of this year including a slot at Coachella.Now, a new run of dates with the Fugees, including two shows in the UK at the Co-Op Live arena in Manchester and The O2 in London in October have been announced with tickets going on general sale for those concerts this Friday (June 28) at 10am BST. You can purchase tickets here.Before that a pre-sale will also be held from 10am BST tomorrow (June 26) until 9am on Friday and tickets can be purchased here.

A 70 year-old man was arrested after police called to reports of gunshots found an injured pigeon in a garden.

Marks and Spencer is selling a pair of denim shorts giving shoppers the confidence back to show their legs this summer. The shorts, which have been hailed 'respectable' by some women, have a gorgeous design that could easily be mistaken for a skirt.

Coronation Street fans have spotted a link between Joel Deering and Max Turner as they predict the latter may become a suspect in the former's crimes. As viewers of the ITV soap know, Joel isn't the squeaky clean solicitor they first thought when he arrived as Dee-Dee Bailey's love interest.

Following a power cut over the weekend which led to dozens of flights being cancelled and delayed, Manchester Airport is now operating as normal, although it has warned that it is ‘slightly busier than usual’. On Sunday a power outage in the early hours caused cancellations from both Terminal 1 and 2.

Janette Manrara has said she still 'can't believe' the direction of her career is currently taking as she prepares for her next big step. The former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer will release her very first book later this year.

Police are growing concerned for the well-being of a man who has been missing overnight from Irvine.

Kenny McLean is reportedly a target for Rangers this summer.

Sibling rivalry can be a problem for many.

Police have released CCTV footage of two men after a late-night attack in a bar in Edinburgh city centre.

Ruth Langsford has finally broken her social media silence after it was revealed that relationship counsellor Katie Alexander, 42, who has been comforting Eamonn Holmes following his split from Ruth, is reportedly in for "the long haul".

Airdrieonians skipper Adam Frizzell admits he is surprised bigger clubs didn’t swoop to snap up player-boss Rhys McCabe this summer.

EXCLUSIVE: Narges Rashidi (Gangs of London, The Girlfriend Experience) and Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale, Shakespeare in Love) are the actors who have been secretly portraying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker falsely accused of spying and detained in Iran for six years, and her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who campaigned tirelessly for her release, in a TV drama, Deadline can reveal.

Frank Murray and Frida Torresblanco have boarded The Night Manager Season 2 as producers via their nascent Hangtime International Pictures, with plans ramping up for the next instalment of the John le Carré adaptation.

The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to award-winning Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones sound engineer, editor and voice actor Ben Burtt at its upcoming 77th edition in August.