A man has been arrested in connection with an alleged racist attack on Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling, police have announced.

Greater Manchester Police are investigating an incident of alleged racially aggravated assault on Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling at the weekend.

Warehouse workers at retail giant Argos are to stage a three-week strike in a dispute over redundancy arrangements.

An inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal which has left 2,400 people dead is to be launched.

Three children and a woman have died in a fire at a family home in Bolton, police said.

Fresh arrests have been made in the Manchester bombing probe after police carried out a controlled explosion during a raid on an address in the Cheetham Hill area of the city.

Police hunting the terror network behind the Manchester Arena bombing have stopped passing information to the US on the investigation as a major transatlantic row erupted over leaks of key evidence in the US, according to a report.

Theresa May is expected to raise UK concerns about the leaking of intelligence on the Manchester bomb attack to the US press when she meets Donald Trump on Thursday.

A woman arrested over the Manchester Arena attack has been released without charge, leaving six people in UK custody as counter-terrorism police swooped on the suicide bomber's suspected "network".

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Twelve children under the age of 16 were among the 59 casualties taken to hospital after the terror attack at Manchester Arena.

Blood donors are being encouraged to keep their appointments to give blood following the explosion at a concert in Manchester.

“Manchester has been home to the Irish and so many nationalities for centuries and at this terrible time I want to send the people of this great and welcoming city not only our sympathy but our solidarity".

Latest: Thousands of people have gathered in the centre of Manchester in a show of defiance, declaring they will not be "beaten" or "intimidated" in the wake of the terror attack.

There can be little doubting the credentials of many of those on the new policing commission.

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has said it is "considering options" in the case of a man who was spared jail after he admitted beating his wife.

Twins whose bodies were found at the White Cliffs of Dover in England on New Year's Day had rucksacks containing the ashes of their dead parents, an inquest heard.

A violent driver left two men "terrified" after he deliberately reversed his truck into a lorry and smashed a window with a spade in a road rage attack in England.

Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the Labour Party in the UK.

A 63-year-old man has been charged with punching a newborn baby in a UK supermarket.

Six people have been injured in England following an explosion at a terraced house in Greater Manchester during the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Eleven men have been charged after six cannabis farms worth around £6m were uncovered in England.

A Pokemon Go player in England called 999 to tell police there that someone had "stolen their Pokemon".

Coach Nigel Carolan has urged his men to play the game and not the occasion when they take on England this evening (7pm) in the World Rugby U20 Championship at the AJ Bell Stadium in Greater Manchester.

Former Westmeath minor footballer Conor O’Brien might this week be preparing for a Leinster SFC semi-final showdown with Kildare in Croke Park, but instead it’s the World Rugby U20 Championship final.

A dummy bomb which sparked the evacuation of thousands of football fans from Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground was recorded as having been removed by the security firm which left it there, the club’s executive vice-chairman said.

USA: To a girl aged two in South Carolina, struggling to get dressed is an emergency. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office says the child called 911, asking for help getting dressed.

House-to-house inquiries across the rugby centres of Europe have revealed a disturbing fact. As of late last night, only six Irish survivors were left in the Champions’ Cup.

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Most eyes were probably on events in Barcelona’s Nou Camp and Munich’s Allianz Arena last Tuesday evening, but there were happenings of a less-gilded though far more uplifting and important nature unfolding at the same time at the tidy little Tameside Stadium in Ashton-Under-Lyne in England’s north-west.

Hundreds of British schoolchildren, some as young as eight, have been caught with drugs on school premises, new figures reveal.

ENGLAND: Tory prime minister David Cameron and Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls have finally found some common ground — they are both scared of rats.

A school has defended its decision to stop a pupil taking part in World Book Day events while wearing a Fifty Shades Of Grey costume.

The families of two British men jailed after going plane spotting in Dubai are having to “beg and borrow” to raise desperately-needed cash for the legal battle to free them.

As he joins a stellar cast in Fortitude, Christopher Eccleston tells Kate Samuelson why he loved working on the new drama series

Oldham appear not to have ruled out signing convicted rapist Ched Evans.

A terrified llama on the loose in a town just outside Manchester managed to evade capture for six hours before being safely guided back home.

Footballer Ravel Morrison has been cleared of threatening to throw acid in the face of his ex-girlfriend and have her killed.

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A woman reporting her grandchildren for not doing their homework and the theft of a garden gnome were among emergency calls received within 24 hours by one of the UK’s largest police forces.

Roy Keane made only the briefest of cameo appearances in a speech delivered by his former manager, Alex Ferguson, to 1700 business people in Dublin last night.