The Latest Breaking News from Manchester

Grant Shapps has shared how his father-in-law desperately tried to help fight off the Manchester synagogue attacker.

The former England and Manchester United footballer was right to highlight the issue, communities minister Miatta Fahnbulleh said.

The former Manchester United captain says the flag was being ‘used in a negative fashion’ by ‘angry, middle-aged white men’

Half of Tory members also want Kemi Badenoch to be replaced as Conservative leader

Gary Neville wrote: ‘The division that’s being created is absolutely disgusting. Mainly created by angry, middle-aged white men, who know exactly what they’re doing’

Mourners paid tribute to Melvin Cravitz, who died after he helped to prevent Jihad Al-Shamie from entering Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue.

Footballer turned developer questions spate of flag raisings and says ‘we’re all being turned on each other’

The Manchester City manager thanked his striker and his goalkeeper after his side claimed a 1-0 victory over Brentford

Thousands come together in Trafalgar Square despite fears over the rise of antisemitism in the UK

The 66-year-old from Crumpsall has been described by his family as a man ‘would do anything to help anyone’.

On the surface, I am ideally suited to write about the terrorist atrocity on the Heaton Park synagogue. The attack, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, left two Mancunian Jews dead, several seriously injured and a local (and national) Jewish community traumatised.