Robert Kenyon, who is standing against Labour’s Andy Burnham, used a now-deleted X account to support an offensive post about the TV star.

Here, we take a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

Tributes have been paid across sport and wider society towards Hatton, a former world welterweight champion.

Options to increase capacity to 87,000 at the existing stadium or build a new ground which could hold 100,000 fans are on the table.

The Premier League giants announced on Friday that a task force has been formed aimed at exploring options to regenerate the Old Trafford area.