Updates on Monday 11 April
More news, sport, weather and travel updates from 08:00 on Tuesday
Live updates from Greater Manchester and Cheshire have finished for the day, but we'll be back from 08:00 on Tuesday with the latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from across the region.
The evening starts dry and breezy before outbreaks of rain, some of them heavy, begin to spread northwards.
Blackwell's Bookshop in Manchester is relocating its 30,000 books by hand - while its current building undergoes redevelopment.
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Manchester is the 'dominant force' in the Northern Powerhouse area, according to new research.
The report - by Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economic and Business Research - is based on estimates of job creation, and the value of goods and services produced by the area.
It found that at the end of 2015, Greater Manchester's economy slowed but it did grow faster than inner London.
The Home Secretary has paid tribute to a firefighter who took his own life at Stalybridge Fire Station.
Image source, GMFRSLee Gaunt was found hanged at the station last year after struggling to cope with the loss of a colleague Stephen Hunt who died tackling a blaze in the Northern Quarter in 2013.
Speaking in the Commons, the Labour MP Jonathan Reynolds raised the case to highlight the pressure faced by firefighters.
Scott Read
BBC Radio Manchester Sport
Lancashire head coach Ashley Giles has urged Alviro Petersen to become as prolific with the bat as Ashwell Prince.
Image source, Getty ImagesPrince, 38, retired from all forms of cricket at the end of last season after helping Lancashire to victory in the T20 Blast Final.
This evening's top stories:
Police have arrested a man after a dog was stabbed during a burglary in Beswick.
The pet Shar Pei dog had been repeatedly stabbed by offenders during a burglary at a house on Kylemore Way in Beswick on 19 March, in what Insp Shan Nasim called a "shocking crime" of "extreme violence".
A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary and although seriously injured, the dog is recovering well.
BBC Travel
Services between Piccadilly and Eccles are currently having to run direct from Harbour City and Broadway and not call in at Media City while a technical problem is fixed.
See more on BBC Travel
BBC Sport
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany will not return from injury for his side's Champions League quarter-final second leg against Paris St-Germain at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night.
Image source, Getty ImagesManager Manuel Pellegrini said: "He is not 100%. It is not possible."
Defender Kompany, 30, has not played since suffering a calf injury as City drew 0-0 against Dynamo Kiev in March to reach the last eight.
Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Two building firm directors have been jailed, external after a workman plunged from a roof and died.
Royal Bolton Hospital is to get state-of-the-art equipment which will speed up the diagnosis of meningitis with potentially life-saving results.
Image source, GoogleCurrently, tests in the lab can take up to seven days depending on the type of infection, but with the new equipment a diagnosis could be made within an hour.
Simplyhealth and the charity MedEquip4kids have donated more than £40,000 to pay for the new kit.
Today's top stories:
Oldham Evening Chronicle
Oldham Evening Chronicle
A crazed cat left a woman permanently scarred when it leapt on her head, external in a terrifying attack.
BBC Panorama
Investigative TV show
The government is being urged to investigate under-reporting of deaths of children and adolescents in mental health units.
The BBC's Panorama programme tonight will highlight the case of Sara Green who took her own life at the Priory Hospital in Cheadle after eight months in the unit for treatment. She was sent there because of a lack of NHS psychiatric places closer to her home.
Watch Panorama "I'm Broken Inside: Sara's Story" at 19:30 BST on BBC One or catch up on iPlayer.
Outbreaks of rain will move across the region, becoming more widespread by the morning.
Tuesday will be mostly cloudy with rain at times.
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Oldham Council have agreed to reduce the height of some newly installed lamp posts, external in Dobcross after residents said they were far too high and were causing them sleep problems.
The head of Age UK Cheshire has said new research, which shows one in four 55 to 64-year-olds have experienced ageism, doesn't surprise him.
The results come from a ComRes poll of more than 1,000 people carried out for BBC Radio 5 live in which one in five adults also said they feared getting older.
Chief executive of Age UK Cheshire Ken Clemens has said society will have to learn to value older people more.
BBC Sport
Bolton Wanderers' relegation to League One was confirmed by a heavy defeat at promotion-chasing Derby County on Saturday.
Image source, Rex FeaturesBolton's relegation caps a tumultuous season behind the scenes, including staff wages being withheld, a winding-up petition issued and a takeover completed.
Captain Darren Pratley says they need to make changes throughout the club, including looking at the whole squad for next season.
