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Claire HamiltonLiverpool City Region political reporterPA MediaAndy Burnham said Manchester’s facilities are “second-to-none”A Liverpool-Manchester bid for the 2040 Olympics and Paralympics could help “rebalance” a North-South divide through investment, leaders in the region have said.The idea was first proposed by the Heseltine Institute, a public policy research centre in Liverpool.Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said it was a “good idea” for the two North West cities to bid for the games instead of London, where Mayor Sadiq Khan has said he was keen to see them return after the success of 2012.”I hear London is asking for another go.…

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has not ruled out Kobbie Mainoo and Joshua Zirkzee leaving in January to further their World Cup ambitions – but says the interests of his club will come first.Neither player has started a Premier League game this season. Zirkzee has figured for just 82 minutes in the top flight, while Mainoo has played for 93 minutes since coming on at half-time against Burnley on 30 August.Both players are known to be unhappy about the situation and – having lost their international spots with England and the Netherlands respectively – are keen to secure January…

David Kennard/Neptune’s Army of Rubbish CleanersTim Smith-Gosling was the diver who found the device in the Skomer Marine Conservation ZoneA team of litter-picking scuba divers have recovered what is believed to be a Russian tracking device off the Welsh coast.Divers from Neptune’s Army of Rubbish Cleaners (NARC) discovered the object on 15 November during a routine dive in the Skomer Marine Conservation Zone, off Wooltack Point in Pembrokeshire.The team initially assumed the device was part of a navigational marker, but later suspected it resembled a sonobuoy – an acoustic monitoring device, often used to detect submarines.An independent defence analyst said…

What a day it turned out to be for boyhood Arsenal fan Eze.Before the match Tottenham manager Thomas Frank joked “who?” when questioned about how close Eze was to becoming a Spurs player in the summer. Those words certainly came back to haunt him.A first senior hat-trick is a landmark in itself, let alone the first north London derby in Premier League history.Eze signed for Arsenal in a deal worth £67m and is starting to cement himself as one of the first names on the teamsheet for manager Mikel Arteta.When he signed for the Gunners there were questions about where…

Former Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.Lord Cameron said he found out about the diagnosis after his wife Samantha urged him to have tests.The former Conservative leader, who is now cancer free, said he first found out after a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test.He is now supporting a fresh push to offer prostate cancer screening to men most at risk.He said: “You always hope for the best.You have an MRI scan with a few black marks on it. “You think, ‘Ah, that’s probably OK.’ But when the biopsy comes back, and it says you…

A man has been charged with murder after a person died at an accommodation block for students and professionals.Emergency services were called to reports of a man with a stab wound at Somerleyton House in Somerleyton Street, Norwich, at about 05:20 GMT on Saturday.Norfolk Police said a man in his 30s had been pronounced dead at the scene and a 27-year-old had been arrested. A post-mortem examination indicated the cause of death was a stab wound to the chest. Benjamin Katabana, of Somerleyton Street, who police said was a Congolese national, has been charged with murder. He has been remanded…

GoogleThe crash happened at the junction of Lloyd Street and Lowthorpe StreetA man is in a life-threatening condition after a crash between his motorbike and a car in the Manchester neighbourhood of Moss Side.The 19-year-old was thrown off his Suzuki in the collision with a Toyota Corolla at a junction in Lloyd Street at about 19:20 GMT on Friday, Greater Manchester Police said.He was taken to hospital with serious injuries.Police are appealing for anyone with information or footage related to the crash to contact them.

Hearts have been outperforming their expected goals this season, scoring 29 times compared to an xG tally of 22.46, so the more legitimate concern could be that their high return doesn’t last, especially if Shankland is out for a sustained period.Pierre Landry Kabore partnered Braga on Sunday and had his moments in only his fifth appearance for the club, but blazed his best sight of goal high and wide.Despite the loss, former Scotland striker Kris Boyd saw no reason for alarm.”One win in four, it’s a slight concern,” he said on Sky Sports. “I don’t think Hearts had a bad…

A Royal Navy patrol ship has tracked two Russian naval vessels as they transited British waters days after Defence Secretary John Healey issued a warning to Vladimir Putin. The Ministry of Defence confirmed this afternoon HMS Severn monitored the corvette RFN Stoikiy and the tanker Yelnya as they navigated through the Dover Strait.The Russian ships continued their journey westward through the English Channel under the watchful eye of the British patrol vessel. This latest interception forms part of ongoing surveillance operations to monitor foreign military vessels near UK territorial waters.The incident represents another example of increased Russian naval movements around…

Hawley’s AuctioneersA 1937 Robert “Mouseman” Thompson table has been sold at auctionA school facing closure has auctioned off two 1930s “Mouseman” dining tables for a combined total of £78,000.Auctioneers Hawleys said it believed one of the tables, belonging to Moorlands School in Leeds, had sold for a world record price at the event at Beverley Racecourse on Saturday.The auctioneers said the £42,000 paid for the “astonishing” table, which is almost 6m (19.7ft)-long and made in 1937 from a piece of oak, was the “highest paid at auction for a piece of Mouseman furniture”.Both tables were sold to phone bidders, with…