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PAUL Burrell will not face a police investigation over allegations of perjury relating to the Diana inquest after the Met Police decided there was "insufficient admissible evidence" to prove that such an offence had occurred, Scotland Yard said today.

A DERANGED lodger stabbed his landlord's girlfriend to death in front of her baby son.

AMONGST the hustle and bustle of a weekday lunch-time, a corner of the city paused to remember the British and Russian victims of the Second World War.

A TEENAGER brain damaged when he was kicked in the head on a bouncy castle has won his damages action against the couple who hired it.

MANCHESTER-based TV talent show Soapstar Superstar is among the programmes that earned ITV a record £5.67m fine from media regulator Ofcom.

Granada Television, based in Quay Street, will shoulder £1.2m of the fine because it was given responsibility by the ITV network for upholding broadcasting standards on the show.

TRAFFIC jams are growing despite pledges from transport chiefs to cut congestion on the region's roads.

THREE Manchester mothers who smuggled £340,000 worth of cocaine into the country in their undies have been jailed for five and a half years.

A TROMBONIST from Stalybridge is bidding to be the BBC's youngest-ever Young Musician of the Year.

FRIENDS of a woman whose body has been in a mortuary for six years have failed in a High Court bid for a fresh inquest.

CHESHIRE Detectives are hunting this man who is suspected of being behind a number of burglaries in the county.

THE number of people at risk of losing their homes has risen nearly a fifth in the past year, figures showed today.

GREATER Manchester Police are to meet Rangers supporters in the run-up to the Uefa Cup clash taking place in the city.

MANCHESTER has “no realistic rival” outside London as a tourist destination, according to a new travel guide to England.

AN inquest is set to open into the death of Cheshire-raised barrister Mark Saunders at the hands of police marksmen.

THE Foreign Office is urgently trying to track down "a small number" of British nationals who are among those unaccounted for in cyclone hit Burma.

STAR pooches Schmeichel and Ozzy are used to being at the heart of things in Coronation Street.

LIKE most birthday girls, 105-year-old Fanny Billington wanted to invite her family to celebrate reaching the landmark.

A CYCLIST is in hospital being treated for serious injuries after a road accident.