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Frustrated campaigners have hit out at drivers treating the central reservation of a major Salford road as a 'car park' as authorities slammed the issue as 'unsafe'.

New footage has emerged of the rescue effort of the monkey who escaped from a Scots wildlife park.

A man was rushed to hospital after a car flipped onto its roof following a two-vehicle crash on a busy Scots road.

A police dog located a 'vulnerable' Scots pensioner who had been reported missing from a caravan park.

Just six volunteers - including a British TikToker - have stepped forward to join today's search for Jay Slater following a Spanish police appeal for help.

Alternative hip hop and garage project The Streets will be returning to Glastonbury for what is due to be one of the stand-out sets from The Other Stage this year.

Final details of plans to build a three-storey apartment block in the grounds of a former pub and which has also been transformed into an apart-hotel have been submitted. They relate to the Throstles Nest on Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, where applicant Shaukat Iqbal wants to put up the block to accommodate eight homes.

A new community for over-55s is set to be built at a former school site in Bury. Social housing provider Bolton at Home have submitted plans for 39 flats and four bungalows at the former site of the Millwood School off Fletcher Fold Road.

Visitors to Bolton over the Ironman weekend have been urged to donate to local charities as an alternative to giving directly to people begging in the town centre. The borough is set to welcome thousands of athletes and supporters across the Night Run, Ironkids and Ironman 70.3 events during June 28-30.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The Morpho machine is shutting down. Apple TV+ has canceled “The Big Door Prize” after two seasons, Variety has confirmed. The series, from Skydance Television and CJ ENM/Studio Dragon, ended its Season 2 run on June 12.

One Direction, Ty Dolla $ign, and Prince.“At this time of the year, we’ve got the students going away, folk going on summer holidays and 200,000 Scots going to the Euros,” he said. “Midweek has been terrible for the whole of Glasgow.

Police have issued an urgent appeal to help track down a missing 13-year-old boy last seen in Stretford.

The mystery surrounding DS Swain's daughter has finally been unravelled on Coronation Street, and it spells trouble for the young girl.

Our canals and waterways make for a scenic day out no matter what, but there's something new luring visitors this summer.

Thania Garcia Lana Del Rey and Quavo will release their new country-trap single “Tough” on July 3, the singers jointly announced Friday morning. The pair confirmed the release date following weeks of teasers with a post on Instagram featuring a black-and-white polaroid photo of Del Rey putting a diamond chain on Quavo. Del Rey and Quavo delivered the debut live performance of “Tough” last week during Del Rey’s headlining performance at Boston’s Fenway Park.

EXCLUSIVE: “I hope the folks at Sundance have the clarity of perspective to recognize that it would be in their best interest to bring the festival to Georgia,” Sen. Raphael Warnock says of the Peach State’s unique triple bids for the Robert Redford-founded film festival to move to Hollywood South starting in 2027.

For the families uprooted from their close-knit terraced streets of inner-city Manchester, it must have felt like walking into the future. With its 'washing machine' porthole windows, lurid plastic walls and walkways in the sky, the Southgate estate was unlike anything the north west had seen before.

A gun found in a park by a litter picker has been destroyed by police. Craig Whitehurst was shocked to discover the firearm in Manchester's Alexandra Park.

Just days after warnings were issued over a rise in vandalism and arson, a memorial to a local war hero in Middleton has been destroyed.

The Mary Wallopers played Glastonbury for the second year in a row this afternoon, moving up to the Park Stage from the Crows Nest and Acoustic Stage.The six-piece brought their energetic mix of Celtic folk and punk to one of the main stages for the first time, charming festivalgoers with their anti-capitalist lyrics and liberal use of innuendo. They began with ‘Bold O’Donogue’ and ‘Love Will Never Conquer Me’, before ‘The Rich Man and The Poor Man’, during which they thrilled the crowd with the lyric: “The rich are fucking cuntions”.The band then went on to express support for Palestine amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza war before the start of the anti-war track ‘Lots of Little Soldiers’.They were witty too: “What, did you think you were coming to see professionals?” quipped Charles Hendy as his bandmates had to quickly retune between tracks.Peter Hooton, frontman of 1990s indie dance band The Farm, was among those in attendance as The Wallopers worked their way through renditions of folk classics, tweeting: “Absolutely packed at the Park stage for the brilliant @MaryWallopers.”Absolutely packed at the Park stage for the brilliant @marywallopers @glastonbury pic.twitter.com/KMww5P43Oe— TheFarm/PeterHooton (@TheFarm_Peter) June 28, 2024It looks as though the band may have found themselves some new fans with their set, one telling them on Twitter/X that they’d “never heard of you before today but absolutely loving it, pure happiness,” while another described them as “unreal”.Earlier this week (June 24) the Mary Wallopers shared their latest EP, ‘Home Boys Home’, and announced a UK tour for 2025.

A female diver took TikTok by storm after she defied a 'No Women' sign on a waterslide, an act that some have likened to "having an enema".