"The heart is being ripped out of the city" - Manchester's hospitality businesses react to prospect of tougher Tier 3 restrictions

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterCouncil bosses are to spend government cash covering up empty shop windows in towns and giving business owners £3,000 grants to tidy up their premises.Plants sprouting from buildings will also be weeded out.

Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy, starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close and directed by Ron Howard, is being critically panned and the stars are now reacting to the movie’s reviews.

EXCLUSIVE: Felicity Huffman is returning to acting — and to ABC — with a single-camera comedy that has landed a big pilot production commitment at the network. The Peanut Butter Falcon‘s Zack Gottsagen co-stars in the project from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

A Utah police officer is accused of abducting a family member on Thanksgiving amid a bizarre outburst in which the officer allegedly believed he was “being watched by an unknown organization,” according to recent reports. South Jordan Master Officer Scott Elliott Russell has been placed on administrative leave with pay following Thursday’s events, local affiliate FOX13 Salt Lake City and The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Mystery Jets are set to play a special socially distanced Christmas gig in London next month – get all the details below.The band will take to the Clapham Grand on December 19, with support coming from Ferris & Sylvester and DJ Rowena Alice.“This will be an intimate, socially-distanced seated show with level access,” the band wrote on Twitter, announcing the gig.Tickets for the show go on sale on Wednesday (December 2) at 9am GMT via DICE.

It is a "total failure" for schools to be closed while other countries have figured out how to keep them open safely amid the coronavirus pandemic, The Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech said on Monday.

Elizabeth Chambers clapped back at criticism after celebrating her daughter Harper’s 6th birthday amid the coronavirus pandemic.“Most memorable 6th birthday for the MOST MAGICAL girl!” the BIRD Bakery owner, 38, captioned a Sunday, November 29, Instagram video of Harper smiling with a horse at her side. “Thank you to all who celebrated and to Misty the pony, who loves cake as much as we do.”Bachelor’s Catherine Giudici commented, “How fun! Happy birthday to your little cowgirl,” but not all of Chambers’ Instagram followers showed their support for the festivities.When one user asked, “Masks? Social distancing?” the actress replied, “No COVID in [the Cayman] Island[s].

Molly-Mae Hague has confessed that boyfriend Tommy Fury is “driving her mad” during the second lockdown. Love Island star Molly-Mae, 21, got candid about her romance with professional boxer Tommy, also 21, and admitted they are “ready to kill each other” after spending several weeks together in the second national lockdown.

RITA Ora has offered to pay a £10k fine after throwing an "inexcusable" 30th birthday party with 30 pals. The pop star told The Sun she is "deeply sorry for breaking the rules" as she apologised for throwing the lavish bash on Saturday night.

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik welcomed a daughter in September, and they've shared a couple of glimpses of their little one on social media so far. Leave it to a proud grandma to keep those baby pics coming.

CORONATION Street star William Roche gave fans a glimpse inside his enormous mansion today. The 88-year-old actor, who has played Ken Barlow since 1960, unveiled a huge portrait of himself on This Morning.

KHLOE Kardashian wrote about those who "did her wrong" in a head-scratching post after cheating Tristan Thompson packed his bags and headed to Boston. The on-again-off-again couple share 2-year-old daughter True together.

Christmas ice skating rink looks like a penis.The shape of the ice rink looks suspiciously like a piece of classic schoolboy graffiti – and the resemblance is helped by a Christmas tree emerging from its “tip”.Anatoly Lokot, mayor of Novosibirsk, says that the somewhat rude-looking layout of the Lenina Square ice rink is simply the most efficient shape to make the best use of space while maximising “pleasure.”“Honestly, both this year and last year, the shape of the ice rink was the last thing we thought about," he said, adding "We thought about the area, and maximising the territory that can be occupied by an ice rink in order not to create crowding."Speaking to Russian news outlet RIA Novosti, he explained that the penile resemblance is

Kate sported a purple Gucci blouse with a big pussybow that she actually wore back in during a visit to in London. In the video, fans realized that she wore the top completely backwards...just like she did last year.

Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague confessed she's "ready to kill" Tommy Fury in lockdown.

Robot waiters are being recruited to serve champagne to diners in two upmarket restaurants over Christmas, it has been reported.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed that he had been tracking Diogo Jota ever since seeing him play his first game for Wolves three years ago.

George Clooney, his now-wife, Amal Clooney, took her time to accept his proposal in April 2014.“We never talked about marriage when we were dating, and I asked her out of the blue,” Clooney, 59, told CBS on Sunday, November 29. “[It] took her a long time to say yes.

Mera: Tidebreaker, Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale and Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by various authors and illustrators. Kids can even write their own stories with the help of Once Upon a Pancake’s fill-in-the-blank books, which are sold for all ages.Don’t miss out on the best buys for younger kiddos.

We’ve finally reached that point in the year where we started to dig out our festive cheer and get our homes looking like Santa’s grotto. From twinkling lights to the never ending task of hoovering up all the glitter, it’s time to spread some Christmas cheer.

EXCLUSIVE: Watchmen actress Jolie Hoang-Rappaport is going back to school! She is the latest to join the roster of the Head of the Class reboot at HBO Max.