Clare Fallon , North of England Correspondent

While the future of the rail project designed to speed up links to their city is being discussed inside the conference hall, our North of England correspondent, Clare Fallon has been talking to people here in Manchester about their reaction to reports it’s been shelved.

Parents with children at a secondary school which has been largely closed for almost a month because of unsafe concrete have been holding a protest during a visit from the schools minister.

The former nurse Lucy Letby will go on trial again – accused of trying to murder a newborn baby girl. Letby was found guilty last month of murdering seven babies – and attempting to murder six others – while she was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital.   

50 yellow branded buses are taking to the streets of Manchester this weekend, the first area in England and Wales, outside London, to have its own regulated bus system since privatisation almost four decades ago.

People living in the UK with roots in Libya have been speaking about their grief at losing relatives in the floods, describing it simply as a ‘catastrophe’. Mosques across Britain have been using Friday prayers to remember those who’ve been lost and to raise funds for the aid effort.

Greater Manchester Police have confirmed the personal details of thousands of their officers and staff have been hacked – in a major security breach that could potentially jeopardise undercover officers. 

The environment watchdog says the Government may have broken the law over sewage dumping in England. Under the current rules, water companies are only supposed to discharge raw sewage under exceptional circumstances, like unusually heavy rain. 

The cruelty and calculation of her crimes were “truly horrific”, the judge at Manchester Crown Court declared today as he sentenced Lucy Letby to a whole-life term in jail for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others.

Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others while working as a nurse at the countess of Chester hospital.

Lucy Letby murdered seven babies, attempted to murder six others and there are allegations of more.

An independent inquiry has been ordered into the way Greater Manchester Police treats women and girls in custody, including the use of strip searches

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs no longer faces domestic violence allegations – after prosecutors withdrew the charges. 

This year’s Manchester International Festival is getting underway with dance, music and super-sized inflatable art. 

Nicola Bulley’s family have attacked what they said was “wildly inaccurate speculation” about her death on social media as a coroner found she drowned after accidentally falling into cold water.

When Nicola Bulley went missing in January, the case attracted conspiracy theorists and armchair detectives.