Updates on Friday 9 December
News, sport, weather and travel updates return from 08:00 on Monday
Live updates for Greater Manchester and east Cheshire have finished for the day, but we'll be back from 08:00 on Monday with more of the day's news, sport, travel and weather.
Thanks for joining us and have a great weekend.
Another look at the weather now, and any rain should weaken and slowly clear as we move into Friday night.
Clearer and slightly colder conditions will follow, but it will remain rather breezy.
BBC Sport
There's the usual bumper round of football this weekend, with all the region's league teams in action.
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BBC Sport's coverage of British basketball continues this evening.
Image source, BBC SportAfter the BBL began on the BBC last week, this time it's the turn of the WBBL as the Leicester Riders take on the Manchester Mystics.
Leicester are fourth in the table whilst Manchester sit top with five wins in their last five matches.
Coverage begins from 17:00 and you can watch all the action on the BBC Sport website, app and selected connected TVs by clicking here.
For more information on the BBC's coverage of the WBBL and the BBL click here.
A motorist hopes the powers of social media will help him to track down a suspected hit-and-run driver, external who left his car in a state of disrepair.
Manchester United fans were pelted with bricks and bottles by gangs of thugs, external as they made their way to last night’s match in Ukraine.
Plans for a new hangar at City Airport - better known as Barton Aerodrome - in Salford are set to be approved later.
Image source, Anthony Parkes/GeographThe owners Peel want to demolish the old hangar, which has room for 10 planes, and the new one could accommodate up to 35 light aircraft.
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Teenagers have been arrested, external in the aftermath of a spate of burglaries in Shaw.
Richard Stead
BBC Radio Manchester reporter
Plans for a tree-top adventure playground in Manchester's Heaton Park are set to be approved by council planners later. It'll have nets, ropes and zip wires.
Image source, ThinkstockHere is a full list of the failings and concerns indentified in a damning Ofsted report into children's services in Tameside.
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Phil McCann
Cheshire Political Reporter, BBC News
Contracts to run school fitness programmes in east Cheshire will not be renewed by the council.
Image source, GoogleCheshire East Council Leader Michael Jones stepped down last year following pressure over three deals given to his personal physiotherapist's firm.
The council blamed the ending of the deal on "budget constraints" despite an academic report saying Core Fit Ltd's classes "worked well".
A Cheshire Police probe into Mr Jones' links to the firm's owner is under way.
BBC Test Match Special
Opening batsman Haseeb Hamed joined Jonathan Agnew at lunch on day two of the fourth test against India in Mumbai.
The 19-year-old Lancashire player was ruled out of the final two tests with a broken hand.
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A 70-year-old man has been killed in a suspected hit-and-run in Oldham.
The man died in hospital after he was found with serious injuries in Sandy Lane, Royton, at about 23:00 on Thursday.
Greater Manchester Police officers believe he was struck by a car which then failed to stop.
Sgt Lee Westhead appealed for anyone who was in the area at the time to come forward.
He added: “Similarly, if anyone is approached to carry out work on a vehicle that looks like it might have been involved in this incident, please contact us.”
Police investigating armed robberies at two shops in Wigan have released CCTV images of suspects they are searching for.
Image source, GMPThe first raid happened at Bargain Booze on Orrell Road, Orrell on Tuesday, when a man armed with a gun stole a case of beer - while the terrified shop assistant locked himself in a store room.
Later that day, police believe the same man robbed Wilkinson Newsagents on Ormskirk Road, Newtown.
This time he demanded money, but a female member of staff twice refused, despite having a gun pointed at her.
The man stole a bottle of vodka and fled with another man, who on both occasions was acting as a lookout.
Rachael Lazaro
BBC News Online
"Serious and widespread failings" have been revealed in children's services in Tameside which have been rated "inadequate" by government inspectors.
Image source, ThinkstockAn Ofsted inspection, external found a huge backlog of cases, a high turnover of staff and long delays in assessing children at risk of domestic abuse.
The service was rated "adequate" for safeguarding in 2012.
Tameside Council said it was committed to addressing the points raised "at the earliest opportunity".
The airline Jet2 says it's creating more than 100 new jobs for airfield workers and baggage handlers at Manchester Airport.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe staff running Manchester United's Twitter account during the side's Europa League victory last night left the opinion of how defender Eric Bailly did up to the fans to fill in.
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Inevitably, while most praised the Ivorian international's performance, some replied with more leftfield repsonses.
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