News in brief – 24th September

Proposed Manchester City academy

Manchester City football club have unveiled plans to build a new academy for training potential talent.

The planned academy facility would be open for the 2014/15 season and would be a state of the art facility set in 80 acres adjacent to the Etihad stadium. It will have space for 400 pupils and 16 pitches in total.

Collection of DNA data from ex-convicts

Police have started collection of DNA data from ex-convicts in the Greater Manchester area.

2000 former prisoners have been included in the move, with police officers going to their houses to collect the data. So far data has been largely collected from people who committed crimes prior to the creation of the national DNA database.

Brawl of 15 on Withington Road

A fifteen person brawl broke out on Withington Road, Whalley Range at 3pm on 15^th September.

When police reached the scene those involved had run off. Greater Manchester Police are treating the event as an isolated incident, and a spokesperson said that no one had been seriously injured. Patrols have been stepped up in the area and investigations are on-going.