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Lost underground Manchester club with six dancefloors 'like Aliens movie lair'
Basement nightclub Pips was an iconic venue for Manchester's goth, new wave and new romantic music fans → Read More
Children’s Christmas ruined after burglars steal every present in their home
'You can replace presents but you can’t replace the surprises and the children opening them' → Read More
Doctor 'not sure he's ever seen a child with so many injuries' as dad denies murder
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes's father Thomas Hughes and his partner Emma Tustin are accused of mistreating him before he suffered an "unsurvivable" brain injury at his home in Solihull, West Midlands, on June 16 2020 → Read More
Stepmum 'battered boy leaving him lifeless in hallway' and then organised her birthday
Dad Thomas Hughes, 29, and step-mum Emma Tustin, 32, are accused of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, from Solihull, West Midlands, with the trial heard at Coventry Crown Court → Read More
Dad called murdered son, 6, 'f***ing Hitler' and said he'd take 'jaw off his shoulders'
Prosecutors allege that Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was killed by his father, Thomas Hughes, and his girlfriend, Emma Tustin, in June last year after being poisoned with salt and exposed to months of abuse → Read More
Tennis star Yana Sizikova arrested on suspicion of deliberately losing match at French Open
Yana Sizikova has reportedly been arrested following her first-round doubles match at this year's French Open. → Read More
David Beckham, Phil Neville and Inter Miami's MLS nightmare amid 'cheating' storm
David Beckham's Major League Soccer franchise, Inter Miami, has not had the easiest start to life both on and off the pitch → Read More
Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson Tasered '6 times longer than usual' by 'angry officer'
West Mercia Police Constable Benjamin Monk, 42, is facing trial accused of murdering 48-year-old former Aston Villa player Dalian Atkinson, who died after being Tasered and kicked → Read More
"Pure evil" man guilty of randomly stabbing hill walker, 70, "just for sake of killing"
Moses Christensen told police he wanted to kill someone "just for the sake of killing somebody" - as a "sort of lifelong desire and ambition," a court heard after the murder in Shropshire → Read More
Serial killer fan 'dismembered woman's body in flat of horrors containing gory masks'
Jurors were told Julia Rawson, 42, met Nathan Maynard-Ellis, who was said to have been obsessed with serial killers, in a pub before he took her to his flat where he lived with his boyfriend David Leesley → Read More
Army on Covid-19 standby as Birmingham council goes to emergency door-to-door testing
Birmingham City Council is in talks with the military about them providing extra support as the city's coronavirus cases are on the rise → Read More
Knifeman 'confronted man about girl' before leaving one dead in Birmingham rampage
A major manhunt has been launched by West Midlands Police after the 90-minute rampage in Birmingham city centre left one person dead and seven others in hospital → Read More
Up to half of England's pubs still closed because of coronavirus safety fears
As many pubs in England reopen for the first time in 105 days today, some owners are remaining cautious and staying closed over safety concerns and some say they will wait to see how others cope with the new measures → Read More
Man sent letters threatening to kill Boris Johnson and 'eat Theresa May's corpse'
Rakeem Malik, 52, a serving prisoner at HMP Birmingham, was charged with malicious communications after sending a string of threatening letters to well-known politicians → Read More
Nursing home sees 24 residents die in just three weeks due to coronavirus outbreak
Bradwell Hall Nursing Home in Newcastle-under-Lyme has lost more than one in six residents due to the pandemic as it continues to devastate the country → Read More
On-the-run killer hid out in Airbnb cottage booked by mum-of-two
Sonia Ashraf, from Birmingham, had wanted to be a teacher but helped Harras Khan after he and brother Anib shot Taimoor Zaheer in the head → Read More
Police officer cannot recognise wife after devastating hit-and-run injuries
Christopher Burnham, 48, suffered a fractured skull, a bleed on the brain, and a shattered knee after trying to stop a Mini on Holbrook in Coventry on Wednesday afternoon. → Read More
Drug-dealer whose car crushed police officer into fence jailed for 12 years
PC Claire Bond suffered fractures to her leg and knee after she was thrown to the ground by banned driver Gurajdeep Malhi's rented BMW → Read More
The best theme park deals near Manchester this summer 2019
From Drayton Manor and Alton Towers to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, here are some of the theme parks withing driving distance of Manchester → Read More
Man 'admitted strangling and cutting throat' of Little Girl Blue, 8, murdered in 1975
John Sir, formerly known as Kenneth Etchells, made a string of admissions in 1978 and 1979, following the murder of 'Little Girl Blue' in Birmingham, an inquest was told → Read More