7 h. ago Miserable Met Office Bank Holiday weekend prediction for Greater Manchester

The long, dry spell is over

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8 h. ago Bank Holiday weekend weather as Met Office warns of 'unsettled' conditions

The Met Office explained that more 'unsettled conditions' are set to develop across the UK through the weekend

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9 h. ago Farewell Kevin De Bruyne: Manchester City’s genius and a law unto himself | Simon Hattenstone

Footballing great, dedicated family man and surprisingly outspoken, the playmaker leaves the Premier League this weekend after a decade of entertainmentKevin De Bruyne is leaving Manchester City, and I’m going through all five stages of grief at once. Denial (the club will give him a new contract); anger (how could they not renew his contract?), bargaining (at 33, he’s past his peak and injury prone), depression (life without Kev is no life) and acceptance (it was never going to last, and I not only got to watch him for 10 years, I got to meet him.)They say you should never meet your heroes. I’ve always stood by that maxim when it came to Manchester City players, with the one exception. Oh Kevin De Bruyne. (For the uninitiated, chant endlessly to the chorus of Seven Nation Army.) As De Bruyne is a law unto himself as a player, so he is as an interviewee. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago 25 stunning pictures of Manchester Flower Festival in bloom as event takes over city centre this Bank Holiday

Manchester is in full bloom this weekend with free floral trails and things to do

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25 h. ago Five huge events happening in Greater Manchester this bank holiday weekend you may not know about

Manchester is set to be busy this weekend with flower shows...

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25 h. ago Tottenham fans amass for parade; Williams gets suspended jail sentence: football news – live

Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the final dayFixtures | Tables | Sign up for Football Daily | Email TahaThe latest omission of Jack Grealish isn’t a surprise. Grealish is a bit-part player at Manchester City these days and wasn’t used in last weekend’s FA Cup final defeat by Crystal Palace. The match winner in that game, Eberechi Eze, is included. The Palace duo of Marc Guéhi and Adam Wharton miss out, presumably due to injury (although it should be said Tuchel hasn’t seemed entirely convinced by Guéhi).Tuchel has not been able to name Marcus Rashford because of injury; West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen misses out after failing to take his opportunity last time. Newcastle’s Dan Burn gets another go. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Ivan Toney recalled to England squad, Spurs head for trophy parade: football news – live

Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the final dayFixtures | Tables | Sign up for Football Daily | Email LukeThe latest omission of Jack Grealish isn’t a surprise. Grealish is a bit-part player at Manchester City these days and wasn’t used in last weekend’s FA Cup final defeat by Crystal Palace. The match winner in that game, Eberechi Eze, is included. The Palace duo of Marc Guéhi and Adam Wharton miss out, presumably due to injury (although it should be said Tuchel hasn’t seemed entirely convinced by Guéhi).Tuchel has not been able to name Marcus Rashford because of injury; West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen misses out after failing to take his opportunity last time. Newcastle’s Dan Burn gets another go. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Amber warning issued to millions of UK motorists ahead of bank holiday weekend

Around 20 million journeys are expected to be made during each day of the late May Bank Holiday

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6 d. ago Best accessories to wear to the races including Helen Flanagan’s Karen Millen fascinator

Off to a horse racing event this summer, such as those happening at York, Newmarket and Goodwood? We've found the best accessories to elevate your outfit, from fascinators to jewellery

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6 d. ago Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean

Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptivenessBreathless, deathless and pointless? Here is Richard Linklater’s impeccably submissive, tastefully cinephile period drama about the making of Godard’s debut 1960 classic À Bout de Souffle, that starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as the star-crossed lovers in Paris. Linklater’s homage has credits in French and is beautifully shot in monochrome, as opposed to the boring old colour of real life in which the events were actually happening; he even cutely fabricates cue marks in the corner of the screen, those things that once told projectionists when to changeover the reels. But Linklater smoothly avoids any disruptive jump-cuts.It’s a good natured, intelligent effort for which Godard himself, were he still alive, would undoubtedly have ripped Linklater a new one. (When Michel Hazanavicius made Redoubtable in 2017 about Godard’s making of his ...

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7 d. ago Five big events happening in Manchester this weekend you may not know about

Manchester is set to be busy this weekend

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8 d. ago Great Manchester Run 2025: Full list of road closures this weekend

Manchester city centre road closures will be in place on Sunday, May 18 as the Great Manchester Run gets underway

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8 d. ago Erling Haaland can break unwanted hoodoo and silence Man City critics with just one goal in FA Cup final

Manchester City have a strange Erling Haaland hoodoo to break this weekend when they face Crystal Palace at Wembley in the FA Cup final.

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8 d. ago ‘Men run away from vulnerability’: The Weeknd on blinding success, panic attacks and why The Idol was ‘half

Abel Tesfaye is arguably the world’s biggest pop star – so why is he thinking of wrapping up the Weeknd? As he releases soul-baring film Hurry Up Tomorrow, he charts his path through drugs, heartbreak and abandonmentWalking out to perform in front of 80,000 people and finding that your voice has gone: it’s the type of stress dream you have the night before a big work presentation. But for Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd, it happened for real at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium in 2022. “I ran backstage to find my vocal coach: I can’t sing, it’s not coming out,” he says. “And what I found out later on is that I was having a panic attack. It wasn’t a physical injury. It was more up here” – he gestures to his head – “than it was here” – his throat.The concert, which had to be called off and rescheduled, was the final night of a US stadium tour happening while Tesfaye was also wrapping up his painfully gestated – and eventually widely lampooned – TV series The Idol, which he starred in, co-wrote ...

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9 d. ago Pep Guardiola has seemingly confirmed one Man City starter for FA Cup final vs Crystal Palace

Stefan Ortega was at fault in last year's FA Cup final but should still get the starting spot for Manchester City at Wembley against Crystal Palace this weekend.

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1 week ago Why there will be hundreds of vintage motorcycles driven by men in suits in Manchester this weekend

There's a very special cause behind it all

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1 week ago TransPennine Express warn of changes this weekend and announce more seats on key Manchester route

A new timetable will take effect this weekend across the north of England

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1 week ago FA Cup final: the best pubs showing Crystal Palace vs Manchester City this weekend

If you hear chants of ‘Eagles’ around London on Saturday, don’t be alarmed

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1 week ago UK households told to 'stay indoors' for four hours on Sunday as temperatures soar

Sunday is set to be the hottest day of the weekend with temperatures in London and Manchester expected to hit 26C, while parts of Liverpool and Birmingham could see 25C

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2 w. ago Xabi Alonso confirms he is leaving Leverkusen, West Ham quartet to exit: football – live

Team news and more in the buildup to a busy weekendTen things to look for in the Premier League | Mail MichaelDavid Kogan has cleared a significant hurdle in his bid to become the first chair of the English football regulator, after a parliamentary committee endorsed his candidacy.The culture media and sport select committee conducted a ‘pre-appointment hearing’ with Kogan on Wednesday in which they grilled him on his priorities as a regulator, his past experience, and his well-publicised history as a donor to the Labour party.It’s massive. Of course it is, because you have to frame it against what this club has been through over the last 15 or 20 years and what the supporters have been through. A final is a unique standalone game, it’s a bit different to everything you do in the buildup to it. But if you’re talking about resilience and adversity, this group of players have had it in bucket-loads this year and we’ve still found a way to deal with it. Continue reading...

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