Manchester, United Kingdom Travel News

SHEFFIELD'S Meadowhall is amongst a group of giant shopping centres lobbying the Government to change Sunday trading laws in time for next year's Christmas sales.

Cold weather and recession fail to stop bumper weekend as shops and online retailers report brisk sales Shoppers take advantage of sales in the centre of Derby.

Thousands of bargain-hungry shoppers are flocking to high street chains across the country to snap up post-Christmas discounts.

It was a Christmas without water for some people in Manchester after a water main break.

Supermarkets launched an internet sales war yesterday as major retailers geared up for online combat from Christmas Eve.

BOLTON ground to a halt as the heaviest pre-Christmas snowfall for years caused chaos across the borough.

BOLTON'S shops were bracing themselves for a last-minute shopping blitz - despite the heavy snow and plummeting temperatures.

COMMUTERS suffered travel chaos this morning on the road and rail network struggled to cope with the winter weather.

COMMUTERS faced more delays as snow continued to cause travel chaos across the area this morning.

A PRIVATE hire taxi driver who tried to pick up revellers following one of this summera TMs Oasis concerts at Heaton Park has been ordered to pay more than A 2,500. Biswajit Pal, aged 44, of Farrant Road in Longsight, was found guilty in his absence after failing to turn up to a hearing at Manchester Magistratesa TM Court on Wednesday, December 16.

Travellers experienced transport disruption in parts of Greater Manchester as snow and ice settled on main roads overnight.

Donate money or new, unwrapped toys and clothes to The Telegraph Santa Fund at these Telegraph locations: 17 Executive Drive, Hudson.

Some worry is that conditions of accepting federal grant money would require laying off or reassigning teachers and principals who now work at five elementary schools that have struggled to meet federal standards.

About 60 firefighters have been dealing with a large fire which has broken out at a two storey warehouse building in north Manchester.

A groundbreaking scientific study, i-trees began today with pupils from Manchester Academy joining scientists from The University of Manchester to start the two year project, which will accurately measure the important impact of trees in the fight against climate change.

SHORTLY after we moved here, on my late husband's retirement in the 1970's, the BBC television in Manchester put on a programme about Buxton.

SOUTHAMPTON is one of the biggest users of pay-as-you-go car clubs in the UK, the Department for Transport has revealed.

The state DHHS confirms a Merrimack County woman died last week, bringing the total of deaths related to the flu in NH to seven.

The Essex Holiday Festival kicked off last night with the lighting of the Memory Tree at Town Hall.

LAST time they came to the Trafford Centre they were mobbed by 6000 screaming fans and pictures of mass crowds converging on the centre were an awesome sight.