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We select 10 players who signed or broke through amid fanfare only to get lost in the black hole of post-Ferguson Old Trafford

I started this week at Conservative Party Conference where I made a speech celebrating the fantastic achievement of our Creative Industries over the last decade. I described how we were in a Golden Age for British Culture and this had been supported by Government action, from tax reliefs to the…

Akshata Murty made a surprise speaking appearance on stage at the event in Manchester.

Prime minister’s move criticised as ‘salting the earth’ so Birmingham-Crewe line cannot be built

Prospectus repeats old promises, ditches others and demonstrates an elastic definition of ‘the north’

Rishi Sunak savaged by two ex-PMs for cancelling high-speed rail link to Manchester

City Voices: The ‘King of the North’ was singing a different tune only eight months ago

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced plans to scrap A-levels and the recently introduced T-levels. He unveiled proposals for young people to instead study the new Advanced British Standard (ABS) at the Conservative party conference in Manchester.

Each October, the Nobel Prizes celebrate a handful of groundbreaking scientific achievements. And while many of the awarded discoveries revolutionize the field of science, some originate in unconventional places. For George de Hevesy, the 1943 Nobel Laureate in chemistry who discovered radioactive tracers, that place was a boarding house cafeteria…

Video of Rishi Sunak announcing the axing of the HS2 Manchester leg was filmed in No 10 before he travelled to conference

Headbolt Lane station in Kirkby, Merseyside, will be the first to be served by Merseyrail’s publicly-owned, battery-powered trains.