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A teenager who died after falling into a canal in Tameside this weekend has been named as Shaquille Daniel.

A washed-up ex-professional footballer, who had trials at Manchester United and City, masqueraded as a Premier League star to maintain his celebrity life but is now facing a ‘substantial’ stretch in jail for fraud.

Kieran McGrath, 26, was gunned down after leaving the Sheldon Arms Pub, on Saturday night, around 10.25.

Mourners have come together to set up memorial fund pages for the family of murdered Salford aid worker Alan Henning raising more than £17,000 collectively in two days.

Isis raised its flag on a building on the outskirts of the Syrian town near the Turkish border on Monday after an assault that has lasted almost three weeks

Bookworms across the country will be converging on Manchester from today and joining more than 200 authors as the city hosts its ninth Literature Festival.

Candidate John Bickley was joined by party leader Nigel Farage to canvass residents at a shopping centre in Middleton ahead of the by-elction next week.

Stockport residents have reacted with outrage at council plans which will see new houses built in Reddish Vale Country Park, as part of a project design to redevelop Brinnington.

Jez Dolan, from Manchester, will visit The University of Texas at Austin later this month to scour through the pages of a rarely accessed journal kept by George Cecil Ives from 1867 – 1950

The Independent’s article has resulted in criticism of the government’s supposed political motivation with Len McClusky, leader of public sector workers union Unite, accusing the Tories of trying to ‘erase working people from history’.

David Cameron poses a ‘real risk to the future to the NHS’, Ed Miliband has claimed.