And forecaster say it could be a degree colder tonight before temperatures fall with a good chance of heavy snow from Saturday lunchtime.

When they caught up with him at Wiseman’s Trafford Park site, where he had worked as driver for several years, he was found with keys to a locker. There, in a portable strong-box, was a Glock 26 handgun, two magazines and 143 bullets.

A total of five men took part in the attack that followed, raining blows on the victim until he passed out.

The ultra-thin substance - which has the potential to revolutionise computers and electronic gadgets - was discovered by two Manchester University professors who later received the Nobel Prize.

It follows 14 months of forensic analysis and interviews.

The estate – which takes in more than 300 homes and stretches from the Ashton Canal down to Alan Turing Way – is on the doorstep of Manchester City’s massive Etihad campus.

Her proud grandad, Ian Jones, sponsored her £5 a length and was left speechless when she broke into double figures – then kept going for an amazing 80 lengths.

Danny Holt, 33, was discovered behind a sofa by a police officer at his Eccles home after fire teams said no one was inside.

Alias, a 57-year-old taxi driver, had been on dialysis after kidney failure for more than five years.

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The 47-year-old is currently behind bars in Strangeways awaiting a parole hearing. He was arrested amid the August disorder in Manchester last year and recalled to prison – even though an investigation into whether he was a riot ringleader was dropped.

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But the cuts mean plans to end council-run daycare for under-fives will go ahead. Instead, there will be an outreach programme that will see every family of a newborn visited at home by a council worker, who will stay in touch until the child is three.

The company, which has 61,000 staff globally of whom 8,000 are in the UK, axed 12,600 positions between 2007 and 2009 and removed another 9,000 roles by the end of last year.

Danielle, 18, from Urmston, landed the lead role of Dorothy in Lord Webber's production of the Wizard of Oz when she won the public vote in the last series of his TV talent show.

Organisers expect more than 200,000 people from all over the world to visit for the events connected to the celebration, between Friday, March 2 and Sunday, March 18.

The case, which has dragged on for years, set Bury council against hundreds of its staff.

TV bosses are making a new fly-on-the-wall drama, following residents and community leaders as they go about their lives for the next six months. And it is more likely to be a few pints in the Embassy, sun-starved bodies and your typical northern lass that feature in the Harpurhey version.

Watch Commander Andrew Roughley told the hearing that ‘mistakes’ had been made. But he said his firefighters were ‘good men’ who would ‘run through brick walls to protect the public’.

There were 244 anti-semitic incidents over the last year – the highest ever recorded and more than in London which has a Jewish population six times the size of Manchester.

Council bosses said they had worked hard to minimise the impact of the cuts on the weakest members of society. But they said the sheer scale of the savings required meant it was impossible to protect them altogether.

Reporter Pete Bainbridge filed live updates from the council chamber.

Jordan hopes to go to the US to make his name in advertising campaigns, music videos – and even films.

The metal was wrenched off the outside wall at St James’ Church Hall, Gatley, Stockport.

Tracey Jayne Cropper, 38, says that as well as the trauma of the attack, she is now struggling to work as the thief took her handbag, which had her appointments diary in it.

The plan has received cross-party backing among city councillors – and town hall bosses will now draw up detailed proposals, saying it will help cut accidents.

Coun Bibby, and senior Bury Tory councillor Jim Taylor, who also denies the claims, were both arrested on suspicion of corruption in a public office during a series of police raids.

Tram bosses have agreed to the deal on tickets into the city centre bought after 6pm using a special voucher.

The crunch talks saw council chiefs, led by executive member for culture and leisure Mike Amesbury, try to reassure those gathered about a move to make the park the city’s third biggest open air concert venue.

But it became stuck – and mum Siouxsie Edwards, 26, could not get it off.

Alan Turing, the code-breaking computer pioneer who helped bring down the Nazis, was left with a criminal record after being arrested and tried for homosexuality in 1952.

From April, holidaymakers will have to pay £1 – or two Euros – if they want to use a trolley at any of the airport’s three terminals.

It follows a long-running police investigation into alleged corruption in relation to a planning application. The inquiry relates to a single planning application, believed to be for a housing development.

Trafford council plans to use only unpaid members of the public in two of its libraries instead of paid workers. It says otherwise libraries will have to shut.

But when she switched on her torch she saw the face of Danny Holt, 33, who had collapsed and was partially hidden behind a sofa in the smoke-filled lounge.

It has now emerged that the firm’s licence was being revoked by a traffic commissioner following a public inquiry amid concerns about the firm’s financial standing.

Harold Massey, 83, had his left leg removed at Trafford General Hospital after catching a serious infection.

Managers at the highest levels of the town hall will be offered retirement or voluntary redundancy in the coming months.

He says his problems began when the North West Ambulance Service introduced a policy of ‘hot-desking’ – where workers take any desk at the start of their shifts.