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Home to Manchester's famed Curry Mile, Rusholme still boasts many restaurants - but shisha bars have also taken over the strip in recent years. An area of diverse housing, it includes large, Victorian villas plus tower blocks, social housing and student accommodation. Bordered by Wilmslow Road and Upper Brook Street, the area also includes the huge Platt Fields Park and The Gallery of Costume museum.

Funeral of Harry Goodwin

Pictures: Stars come out to bid farewell to celebrity snapper Harry Goodwin

Harry was resident photographer on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops from its launch in Manchester in 1964 and captured some of the biggest names in music and sport –  from the Beatles to Muhammad Ali – over a glittering career.

A century on: Proper farewell to three lost First World war heroes

Remains of Edgar Matthew Parkinson, James Rowan and Henry Pulford - discovered during a dig in Belgium - are to be buried with full military honours

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Chance to help save Greater Manchester's Grade II listed structures

English Heritage are asking for volunteers to carry out their own surveys of the 3,500 Grade II listed structures across Greater Manchester  to see which are most in need of saving.

Thousands expected to celebrate Eid festival

Police say residents of Rusholme should expect a huge influx of visitors for the Eid-ul-Adha festival, which gets underway next Tuesday

The shocking toll of wasted young lives following gun crime in Manchester

Throughout the 1990s, the city had seen a surge of guns and drugs into inner-city suburbs as gangs wrestled for control of the streets

Family receive payout following death of gran from overfeeding blunder

Jean Adamajitis, 62, suffered from motor neurone disease and was being treated at her home by district nurses from Manchester Royal Infirmary.

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Mum threatened to break another mother's legs in school gates fight

Horrified children and parents watched as Maryam Hussein, 24, lunged at 32-year-old victim Maryam Mohammed, at St Philip’s Church of England Primary School in Hulme.

Jailed: Conmen who tampered with cash machines in Salford

Marinel Codreanu, 33 and Daniel Caldararu, 35, both of Cromwell Avenue in Rusholme, took part in a scam involving a cash machine at a Post Office in Salford, which aimed to swallow users' cards and steal PINs

Aqab Hussain

Court shown CCTV of alleged city centre 'hit-and-run' that left three hurt

Aqab Hussain is alleged to have used a Vauxhall Corsa as a 'lethal weapon', accelerating the wrong way down Princess Street before striking Michael Ward and two of his friends, Paul Hulme and Martin Harris, at the junction of John Dalton Street.

Talking Digital with councillor Nigel Murphy

Since the first tweet was sent in 2006 the site has grown phenomenally and now has 200m users sending 500m tweets (messages in 140 characters or less) a day

Potholed Alderglen Road in Cheetham Hill is one of five streets where repairs will not be completed until November or December. exclusive

In a hole: Town hall blunder means repairs to 45 Manchester roads delayed for months

Delays in processing paperwork by Manchester council bureaucrats meant that the jobs were not passed on to external contractors in time to complete the jobs during the summer

Soumia Benhajfraj

Concern for missing teen last seen in Cheetham Hill two weeks ago

Soumia Benhajfraj, 16, was last seen in Cheetham Hill, north Manchester, on Tuesday 3 September.

The five Curry Mile venues raided in a probe into illegal power supplies

Police raid Curry Mile in illegal electricity probe

Officers believe the power supply to five Rusholme restaurants and bars had been tampered with. One of them may also have had its gas supply altered. Officials say lives were being put at risk.

Mustafa Ahmed Isse (left) and Ibrahim Jama

Images released of suspects after rape of girl, 16, in Manchester park

Police are seeking Mustafa Ahmed Isse and Ibrahim Jama, both 18, in connection with the rape in Victoria Park, south Manchester, on Friday, August 9.

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Revealed: Shocking abuse faced by Manchester's traffic wardens

Several officials were racially abused, spat on, punched and had their ticket machines broken, while one warden found his bike covered in urine

The HS2 route revealed: Find out exactly where the proposed line will go

The MEN can show exactly how the proposed route could affect you as it makes its way from Birmingham on the second stage of the high speed line – due to be open by 2032.

Conman tried to trick council over Rusholme restaurant lease

Israr Fazal, 56, used the stamp on a lease document for his son’s restaurant in Rusholme, which he sent to Manchester council claiming it had been checked and endorsed by the firm

Shoppers give Manchester store a dressing down over naked model in the window

The raunchy images are in the window of French Connection’s flagship Manchester city centre store, off St Ann’s Square.

Greater Manchester midwives are ‘forced out’ in baby boom

Four midwives currently work independently, helping around 60 women in Greater Manchester give birth at home.

Diane Batho outside the Burton Arms Hotel

Hoteliers fight back after 10 worst-rated Manchester hotels are revealed

Bosses at some of the establishments ranked in the worst 10 on TripAdvisor have defended their businesses and criticised the review website

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