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Concerns are increasing for two Scots teens who were reported missing after travelling to a seaside town together.

New plans to clamp down on poor housing and rogue landlords will be put into action in Oldham. An extended selective licensing scheme will allow the local authority to hold those renting out homes to higher standards.

Liz Truss has been accused of bringing shame on the office of Prime Minister by Rochdale’s council leader after she was involved in a disparaging interview about the town.

Greece’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival is reacting with shock to an incident Saturday night in which two LGBTQ people were attacked by a huge crowd in a square outside one of the festival’s main screening venues.

The team bidding to revive Ayr's former Odeon Cinema say community spirit will play a key role in its rebirth.

The mayor of Greater Manchester stood outside Ashton Old Baths alongside Tameside’s council bosses to mark the start of a rebirth for the town.

A ‘new town’ is coming to Manchester which will ‘celebrate its waterways’ in an ‘important location’.

This Easter, keep the kids entertained at Airdrie Town Hall’s Easter pantomime, Rumpelstiltskin.

A high-profile Bury councillor arrested two months ago is returning to the cabinet after police dropped their investigation. Coun Tamoor Tariq 'stepped back' from his duties as deputy leader of the Labour-run council on January 3 having been detained by cops.

The appointment of a key community figure to head up a new town board that will implement a massive £20m injection in Dumfries has been slightly delayed.

A huge police presence swooped on a street in Ayr amid an ongoing incident.

A banking hub is set to open at a former estate agent premises in the centre of Horwich. The former Miller Metcalfe offices on Winter Hey Lane will become a banking counter service operated by the Post Office, where customers of all major banks and building societies can carry out regular cash transactions.

Christopher Vourlias Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, which recently wrapped the action-thriller “G20” for Amazon Studios and MRC Film in Cape Town, is planning to return to South Africa to film the true story of a young African refugee’s improbable journey to the U.S., the company’s head of film production and development, Melanie Clark, revealed this week at the Joburg Film Festival. Developing the film with a working title of “The Refugee,” Clark said Davis and Tennon’s production banner is “actively working on [it] with some local partners and are in the process of figuring out how to shoot it” in South Africa, adding that “we do plan to shoot that here.” The veteran production executive described the project as “the true story of a young Sierra Leonean boy who lost his mother in [the country’s civil war] and found himself alone, because no family would take him in any refugee camp.

A person has died after a horror fire ripped through a house in a Scots town.

The vacant former Marks & Spencer building in Bolton town centre ‘lends itself’ to residential use as well as retail, the council leadership has said. Last week, it was announced that agreement had been reached with the shopping giant about an early surrender of their lease of the building, which runs until 2027.

Tony Burrill has been a resident of Littleborough for 40 years. But now, he's made the decision to leave the place that's become home.

GIRLBAND! have debuted a playful new single, ‘Not Like The Rest’.The alternative newcomers hail from Nottingham and are signed to EMI North, where they are labelmates with the likes of Nadine Shah.Per a press release, members Georgie, Jada and Kay came together after making music in other projects and, during the pandemic, they “plugged into the wider community in Nottingham, one that inspired them with 80s culture, vintage fashion and massive dose of 90s nostalgia, Gwen Stefani and R&B groups.” The sound they carved out has been described as “a punk band making pop songs”.Now, their spirited new single sees them take a trip down memory lane, thinking back to growing up in a small town and not fitting in – “My school was so white/My town was so grey/I was a rainbow, had to hide away/On the 54 bus, she was my first crush/That’s when I knew I had to run away.”Check out ‘Not Like The Rest’ below:The band are set to head out on tour later this year and also have festival appearances booked at the likes of Stockton Calling, Sound City, Teddy Rocks and Block Party in France.You can see the full list of their headline tour dates below and buy your tickets here.MAY3 – Manchester, Deaf Institute 9 – London, The Grace10 – Newport, Le Pub11 – Bristol, Louisiana16 – Southampton, The Joiners18 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms GIRLBAND! have also been announced to be supporting Taking Back Sunday on tour in the UK next month – you can find those dates below and buy your tickets here.MARCH26 – Manchester, O2 Ritz27 – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town28 – Cardiff, University Great HallThey will also be supporting Feeder at York’s Barbican and Manchester’s Albert Hall on March 19 and 20 – you can find tickets here.

A Wishaw town centre property has been put up for sale.

East Kilbride's MSP has blasted the town's Tories for their "deafening silence" over the government's decision to move 1000 civil service jobs out of East Kilbride.

A once-bustling housing estate in Edinburgh became a ghost town before it was demolished. Images of the infamous 'Ramps' scheme in West Granton from the 1980s have resurfaced online.

Katie Price hit the town this week for another night out with close pal Chloe Ferry, posing for a snap alongside the Geordie Shore star as she shared an insight into the evening with her 2.6M Instagram followers. It's the latest in a string of wild nights for Katie and Chloe, who began to form a close bond earlier this year. For the evening, former glamour model Katie, 45, donned a blue and red oversized baseball top with matching knee high boots.