- Feb 21, 2009
- According to the Star, Jose Mourinho's club have made it clear they are interested in the Argentine, whose loan contract at Old Trafford comes to an end this season.
United had been given first refusal on Tevez, which ran out at the end of the...
- Feb 21, 2009
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It has to be the most expensive corner he has ever taken. Manchester Airport has asked Cristiano Ronaldo to cough up £20,000 to repair a road tunnel he damaged when he crashed a brand new Ferrari supercar last month.
The Manchester Uni...
- Feb 15, 2009
- Rumours of the 35-year-old's retirement were clearly greatly exaggerated, as were suggestions he would be offered a place on United's coaching staff, or perhaps grace another club on the Continent.
Instead, Giggs has his sights set on further ...
- Feb 15, 2009
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Plans to build a £20m BMX cycling arena in Manchester, which would also serve as a training base for 2012 British Olympic athletes, have been agreed.
The facility, with seats for up to 4,500 people around a 100m by 70m track, would be ...
- Feb 5, 2009
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England will play Argentina at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium later this year.
The Test on Saturday 6 June will be followed by another a week later in Argentina, and comes 12 years after England last played in Manchester.
"We...
- Feb 5, 2009
- A new memorial has been unveiled for 12 people, including two young children, who were killed in a coach bombing on the M62 in West Yorkshire 35 years ago.
A ceremony was attended by about 500 people at Hartshead Moor services, near Bradford, about ...
- Feb 5, 2009
- More than 200 jobs are to be created by sports brand Umbro at its Greater Manchester headquarters, the company has revealed.
As part of the expansion Umbro will be moving into larger offices at its present base in Cheadle Royal Business Park, in Che...
- Feb 5, 2009
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All speed cameras introduced on UK roads since 1992 were lawfully implemented by the government, a court has ruled in a test case.
Aitken Brotherston, of Lymm, Cheshire, had argued that home secretaries had been approving the devices...
- Jan 19, 2009
- Striker Craig Bellamy has completed his transfer from West Ham to Manchester City for an undisclosed fee. The Wales international, 29, underwent a medical earlier on Monday ahead of joining the eighth club of his career on a four-year contract. He wa...
- Jan 15, 2009
- Manchester City are still hopeful of signing Craig Bellamy despite having a third bid for the Wales striker turned down by West Ham United. The Hammers turned down an improved £9m offer for the 29-year-old on Monday but City made a higher bid o...
- Jan 15, 2009
- Manchester United could be without Wayne Rooney for at least three weeks after he suffered a hamstring injury in the 1-0 win against Wigan. He was injured shortly after scoring the winner in the opening minute as United moved to within two points of ...
- Jan 15, 2009
- AC Milan have given their Brazilian superstar Kaka permission to talk to Manchester City. City are thought to have bid in excess of £100m for the 26-year-old, whose father Bosco Leite is his advisor. "Milan has authorized the negotiation w...
- Dec 22, 2008
- Exclusive By Neal Keeling and Brian LashleyA YOUNG woman plunged 150ft to her death from a luxury apartment block after her affair with a married businessman ended. The woman - in her mid twenties - was the mistress of a wealthy Greater Manchester pr...
- Dec 21, 2008
- By Kevin Feddy MANCHESTER Airport Group has scrapped plans to sell Humberside Airport. The group put Humberside on the market in April after a strategic review and said it had held talks with several potential buyers. But in a statement MAG said it h...
- Dec 21, 2008
- Wayne Rooney clinched victory for Manchester United in the Club World Cup final with a late goal against Liga de Quito after Nemanja Vidic was sent off. Quito goalkeeper Jose Cevallos made a series of superb stops to deny Rooney, Carlos Tevez and Par...
- Dec 12, 2008
- The people of Greater Manchester have voted against plans to introduce a congestion charge in the region. Nearly two million people were asked to decide on a peak-time road charge to open up a £2.8bn transport investment. A majority of voters i...
- Nov 30, 2008
- By Chris Bevan Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off as Wayne Rooney's 100th club goal proved enough to give Manchester United a derby win. United were dominant early on but Manchester City came closest to scoring when Stephen Ireland grazed a post. Rooney ...
- Nov 26, 2008
- Golborne could get its long awaited railway station ... but only if there's a 'yes' vote for the congestion charge. Leigh MP Andy Burnham has announced that the long dreamed-of scheme would get the green light and funding had been confirmed to subsid...
- Nov 26, 2008
- By Adam MorsonA CAMPAIGN group wants people in Manchester to vote for a congestion charge, which could hit commuters from Knutsford, for the sake of their children’s health. The coalition, Clean Air Now, has released posters of children in oxyg...
- Nov 26, 2008
- By Nick Lakeman A MASSIVE majority of Bolton residents are opposed to the congestion charge planned for Greater Manchester, an online poll by The Bolton News has revealed. We published views of the town's three main political party leaders and asked ...
- Nov 23, 2008
- By Alan Jones MORE job cuts were announced by manufacturing giants with north west operations today. AstraZeneca said it plans a reduction of 1,400 in its workforce worldwide, with 250 jobs to go at its Macclesfield site, between next year and 2013, ...
- Nov 23, 2008
- By Paul Britton FROM the P and J initials on the wrought iron driveway gates to the gold-finished bedroom, the home of footballer Phil Neville oozes extravagance. But it appears that even the wealthy rich and famous have been bitten by the credit cru...
- Nov 23, 2008
- By Kevin Feddy MANCHESTER is likely to weather the credit crunch and financial crisis better than most cities because of its diversified economy, experts believe. Its strong financial and professional services community, which employs more than 220,0...
- Nov 23, 2008
- Friends Provident today said it would cut an unspecified number of jobs in Manchester - but the Unite union said it expected 280 redundancies. The life and pensions company announced plans to move out of the former Daily Express building on Greater A...
- Nov 20, 2008
- Some of the lowest paid workers at Manchester City Council could be set for a pay rise of £1.01 above the minimum wage.Councillors are to vote to introduce an authority-wide base wage of £6.74 an hour. The national minimum is £5.73....
- Nov 20, 2008
- People whose hair has turned white because of illness or extreme stress are being offered hope that scientists may be able to reverse the process.Researchers from Manchester University and Lubeck University, in Germany, used a molecule to stimulate t...
- Nov 20, 2008
- IBM Relevant Products/Services plans to buy Transitive to help its customers cut costs. Big Blue announced Tuesday that it will acquire the Los Gatos, Calif.-based virtualization Relevant Products/Services-software company for an undisclosed amount.S...
- Nov 12, 2008
- By Charles Starmer-SmithManchester Airport lost several long-haul services this week as Britain’s biggest airlines further focused their attention on routes out of London.Bmi said that it was stopping all long-haul flights out of Manchester. Fl...
- Nov 12, 2008
- By Don Frame SIXTEEN thousand people lost their jobs in the north west over the last three months.The region now has 230,000 out of work - up by 6.8 per cent and more than any other area outside London.But some industry experts predict the region is ...
- Nov 12, 2008
- By Ian Wylie X Factor star Laura White has spoken of her devastation after her shock exit from the show.But she's vowed to continue her dream of securing a record contract in the wake of one of the biggest upsets in the history of the ITV1 series.Lau...
- Nov 6, 2008
- A MAJOR airline is pulling all its transatlantic flights from Manchester Airport and cutting around 140 jobs.Bmi, which is Britain's second biggest carrier, will stop its services to Chicago, Las Vegas and the Caribbean from January and April next ye...
- Nov 6, 2008
- WORKERS at Manchester Airport will be used to test the new national ID cards.An 18-month pilot of the controversial scheme will begin next October and see all new employees who work in `airside' areas issued with the cards.Airport bosses hope that al...
- Nov 6, 2008
- DAN Hodges puts an earnest case for the people of Greater Manchester to vote Yes to a public transport revolution and a congestion charge.And he bristles at the mention of the man-sized shark used by the No campaign."We can all have a laugh, but...
- Nov 2, 2008
- By Paul R Taylor SIX people were taken to hospital after Manchester's infamous rising bollards shot up under a Metroshuttle bus.An investigation has now been launched because the bollards - which have trapped a number of cars in the past - are specif...
- Oct 29, 2008
- By Amanda Crook CHRISTIE bosses have insisted it's 'business as usual' - as they frantically struggle to recover £7.5m from a failed Icelandic bank.The cancer hospital went ahead with one of its biggest fundraising events of the year last night...
- Oct 29, 2008
- By Ben Rooth and David Ottewell GREATER Manchester councils must work more closely if they want to forge a genuinely sustainable future, environmental experts claimed last night.Panellists at a major MEN debate agreed environmental challenges could o...
- Oct 29, 2008
- HARD Rock Café's international vice-president Mike Kneidinger says it is considering opening a new hotel in Manchester.Mark Kneidinger told the M.E.N. that Manchester is among the world's `leading international cities' which the company is ass...
- Oct 23, 2008
- By David OttewellTHE devastating impact of the credit crunch on the region's housing market can be revealed for the first time today.Figures obtained by the M.E.N. show the number of sales across Greater Manchester has HALVED in just one year.City ce...
- Oct 23, 2008
- By Deborah Linton A MASSIVE scheme to transform one of Manchester's biggest eyesores will bring 3,000 jobs and £90m to the local economy, developers claim.The Renaissance Hotel, in Blackfriars Street, opposite No1 Deansgate, will be torn down a...
- Oct 23, 2008
- Manchester’s Deansgate has seen the second worst fall in the price of apartments of anywhere in the UK.According to a survey by Mouseprice.com, flats are now selling for £196,500, losing 17.1 per cent of their value in the past 12 months....
- Oct 23, 2008
- A prime area of Manchester city centre which was damaged by the IRA bombing 12 years ago is to be transformed.A two-acre area around the 1970s-built Ramada hotel at the north end of Deansgate is to be redeveloped.Manchester City Council said the curr...
- Oct 23, 2008
- Property Developer Argent is encouraging first time buyers onto the property ladder with a much needed helping hand at its stylish Hub development in Piccadilly Manchester.The Helpful Hub package gives potential homebuyers the choice of one of the fo...
- Oct 16, 2008
- The NHS is getting better. Over the last two years the number of NHS trusts getting the top excellent ratings have risen six-fold.But even amid such achievements one area stands out. Salford is one of the most deprived areas in the country.Average li...
- Oct 16, 2008
- asis will play a series of outdoor gigs in the UK and Ireland next summer.The band announced the shows, which include dates at London Wembley Stadium and Manchester Heaton Park, at a press conference on Thursday.Support on the tour, which also visits...
- Oct 16, 2008
- A museum in Greater Manchester has revealed that it had placed £900,000 of its savings in a failed Icelandic bank.The Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)in Manchester put the money in Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander (KSF) to cover future projects.Stev...
- Oct 16, 2008
- Manchester Fertility Services is urging women to donate their eggs and give the gift of life to childless couples.The call comes as The National Gamete Donation Trust (NGDT) and the Department of Health promote their 'Give Hope, Give Life' Egg Donor ...
- Oct 16, 2008
- By Mark Ogden The Merseysiders have made an unbeaten start to the season that sees them sitting in second spot on goal difference behind leaders Chelsea.A 2-1 victory against Manchester United at Anfield last month has boosted Liverpool hopes of land...
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