Over 1,000 jobs to be created in Manchester as new video game studio to open

THE Only Way Is Essex star Frankie Essex got very creative when it came to hiding her baby bump from fans. The the 34-year-old revealed she was expecting twins in the summer with boyfriend, Luke Love, 32, and managed to keep her exciting news under wraps until now.

TOWIE star Frankie Essex tried to keep her pregnancy a secret from boyfriend Luke Love, but her morning sickness gave her away. Frankie, 34, announced today she was expecting twins with her personal trainer beau and had planned to surprise him with the big news on his birthday. But she couldn't keep it under wraps thanks to her extreme nausea in her first trimester.

VIEWERS of the BBC thriller Chloe have been left raging about the plot after claiming to have "no idea" what is going on. The highly anticipated six-part series, which follows Becky and her obsession with influencer Chloe, kicked off last week - but those that have tuned in so far aren't happy. The thriller sees Becky become completely obsessed with following social media star and her estranged friend Chloe.

OUR Yorkshire Farm’s Amanda Owen has delighted fans with an exciting announcement about a new arrival at Ravenseat. Amanda, who fronts the much-loved reality show alongside her husband Clive, revealed that their majestic mare Hazel is currently in foal. Taking to Instagram, the mum-of-nine announced: "And while we’re on the subject of horsepower, hopefully, it will only be a matter of months before we hear the clippety clop of tiny hooves.

CELEBRITIES have been celebrating Valentine's Day with sweet tributes to their partners on social media. Kerry Katona, Molly-Mae Hague and Tess Daly were among the loved-up stars sharing snaps for their significant others' on Monday morning. Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry, 41, kicked off the celebrations with a sweet snap of her and her fiancé Ryan Mahoney.

VIEWERS felt their stomachs churn during last night's instalment of Countryfile. Fans of the BBC One show felt sick when host Adam Henson introduced them to a farmer whose business involved cow manure.

Families are being encouraged to make the most of February half term by visiting the Van Gogh Alive experience before it closes.

Tanya Bardsley has been flooded with supportive messages after revealing she left a part early over her sobriety.

Trigger Point viewers are doing some investigating of their own and think they've spotted a 'definite baddie'.

The campaign to save Ryebank Fields has been bubbling along in Chorlton for some time now, with many different community groups campaigning in their own way to save the fields.

Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has stressed the importance of the club getting their next managerial appointment correct, insisting they must source somebody that can offer "belief" to the players.

In what could be some of the most exciting news of 2022 for fantasy fans, the world has been given its first look at the new Amazon Lord of the Rings TV series - Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBCUniversal wants to add an interesting new story to Jenna Bush Hager’s “Today” book club.For nearly four years, the co-host of the 10 a.m. hour of “Today” has chosen a book each month for members of her “Read with Jenna” club to peruse and discuss.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEmmy-winning “The Crown” star Josh O’Connor will be the protagonist of Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher’s next film “La Chimera,” which is set in the world of archeological looting and is currently shooting in and around Southern Tuscany.O’Connor, who in “The Crown” played the young Prince Charles, in “La Chimera” is playing a young British archeologist named Arthur who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s.Also starring in “La Chimera,” which can be loosely translated as “The Unrealizable Dream,” are Isabella Rossellini as a retired opera singer; Brazilian actor Carole Duarte (“The Invisible Life”) who plays another non-Italian woman who intersects with Arthur; Alba Rohrwacher as an international artifacts trafficker; and Vincenzo Nemolato (“Martin Eden”) who plays one of the “tombaroli,” literally grave robbers, as artifacts thieves are known in Italy. “‘La Chimera’ is the story of a young English archaeologist who gets involved in the underground world of the ‘tombaroli,’ the nocturnal raiders of Etruscan tombs,” the director said in a statement.Rohrwacher added that the film “is the final piece of a triptych on territory that I started with ‘The Wonders’ and which poses a central question: what to do with the past?” “Is the past merely a lost world, or does it intimately concern our present?,” Rohrwacher asks.“The Wonders,” which screened in Competition in 2014 at Cannes, winning the Grand Prix, was followed in 2018 by “Happy as Lazzaro” that also launched from the Croisette where it scooped the award for best screenplay.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster BBC has acquired CNN‘s Primetime Emmy winning series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.” The six-part series follows Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as he travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country’s regional cuisines.

The Batman is planning to skip his child’s birth in order to see the DC movie on its opening day.It comes after his wife took to Reddit to complain about her husband’s actions.“My (25F) husband (28M) and I are expecting a baby. As you may know, there is a new Batman movie releasing on early march.

SNK Global has denied reports of Metal Slug: Awakening coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, after a “fake” trailer was revealed.Fans of the Metal Slug series were excited when a Twitter account shared what looked like a gameplay trailer of a game based on the Metal Slug series. The Twitter account bio referred to its efforts as “restoring classics to appetite old fans and new fans”, however at time of writing it has now been removed from Twitter shortly after SNK dubbed it “fake”.“Metal Slug: Awakening was announced by an unofficial account,” reads a tweet from SNK Global’s official Twitter account, which adds that “this news is fake, so please be careful what you read online.”METAL SLUG: AWAKENING was announced by an unofficial account.

Camilla has tested positive for coronavirus, a spokesperson for Clarence House has confirmed. A spokesperson said today: “Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating.

Reality TV royalty Gemma Collins is set to expose a new and intimate side to herself in her upcoming Channel 4 documentary Gemma Collins: Self-Harm and Me. The show, which airs on Wednesday 16 February, will chart Gemma's 20-year battle with self-harm and expose a side to the The Only Way Is Essex star that the public are yet to see.

endlessly youthful Ringo Starr spent time doing what a lot of us did: Cruising the Internet, looking at old photos, finding cool stuff, reevaluating life. But, of course, as the Beatles’ former drummer, cool stuff hit him a little differently than it might have the rest of us.

The North of England is united and will hold the government to long-standing promises of a new railway line connecting the region, Andy Burnham said today.

Ravers have been left stunned after spotting Noel Gallagher on the dancefloor at the Warehouse Project last night.

Manchester fell silent to honour the country's war dead at the annual Remembrance Sunday commemoration this morning.

Trafford’s job seekers can now visit a drop-in centre to help them get job application advice as well as clothes for their interviews.

Andy Burnham has insisted lower bus fares remain a ‘burning priority’ - but admits the scope of Greater Manchester’s new London-style transport network could hinge on the subsidy from central government.

Greater Manchester Police have named an American woman they suspect of being behind a spate of malicious phone calls.

Andy Burnham says he doesn't believe his planned network of new hire bikes will fail as the ill-fated 'Mobike' scheme did across Greater Manchester.

Students have persuaded the mayor of Greater Manchester to launch a partnership to tackle drink spiking in the city following a reported increase in incidents around the UK.

A species of wasp never before seen in the region has caused a buzz in Bury.

A woman out shopping has told how she saved the life of a man threatening to jump from a footbridge over a motorway.

Coronavirus infection rates have gone up in four boroughs of Greater Manchester, latest figures has shown.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that no one is calling for his Covid 'plan B' rules to be implemented now.

Hospitals are struggling under pressure as general beds fill up with Covid-19 patients - leaving people waiting hours longer than they should for emergency help in A&E.

As Greater Manchester's own climate change meetings begin today, a youth activist has issued a plea for the crisis to be taken seriously.