Top Ten celebrity fashion moments of 2014

It’s been a year of showstopping glamour on Manchester’s social scene, with the city’s soap stars, WAGs and fashionistas pulling out all the stops with their red carpet ballgowns and night out dresses.

Here, we pick out our top ten fashion moments of 2014 – and you can also vote for your favourite look at the bottom of this article.

Young woman abandoned as baby issues fresh plea to find her birth mum on her 20th birthday

Leah with two-year-old Caleb and her adoptive parents Debbie and Andrew

A young woman who was abandoned as a baby has issued a fresh appeal for help to find her birth mother as she celebrates her 20th birthday tomorrow.

Leah, whose surname we have been asked not to use, was left in a toilet cubicle at Wythenshawe Hospital on December 29, 1994.

Nobody came forward after an appeal in the M.E.N. earlier this month, but the determined nursing student refuses to give up hope.

Leah, who has a two-year-old son, Caleb, said: “It would mean the absolute world to hear from her. It’s 20 years ago and I just hope she’d be thinking of me.

Family of seven rescued from house fire in Rochdale

Three children, their parents, two grandparents, and a puppy were all asleep at the time the blaze broke out at the house on Manchester Road in Rochdale in the early hours of this morning

A family was rescued from their home by firefighters on Manchester Road, Castleton

A family of seven and their pet dog were rescued by firefighters after a blaze ripped through their house in Rochdale.

Fabregas frustrated by yellow card

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas was left frustrated after being booked for diving during yesterday’s 1-1 draw at Southampton.

The former Arsenal and Barcelona player believes that he was fouled in the penalty area by Saints defender Matt Targett and that it should have been a penalty.

Instead, referee Anthony Taylor booked Fabregas for diving, which the Spaniard puts down to “a bad day at the office” for the referee.

Mourinho rages over anti-Chelsea 'campaign'

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says a "campaign" against his side is to blame for four of his players picking up bookings for diving this season.

Cesc Fabregas became the latest Blues player to see yellow for simulation in Sunday's 1-1 draw at Southampton, though it appeared he had been tripped by Saints left-back Matt Targett.

Muhammadu Buhari tells Jonathan Nigeria is sitting on keg of gun powder

Former Head of State and chieftain of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, x-rayed current political developments in the country and concluded that Nigeria was headed for the brink.

He, therefore, appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to “pull Nigeria back from the brink”.

Highlighting some of the developments which informed his conclusion in a statement issued, yesterday, in Kaduna, General Buhari said that in his capacity as an elder statesman, he had spoken to President Jonathan in private over the issues but it has not yielded positive results. He added that history will not be kind to him (Buhari) if he sat back while things turned bad in the country.

Desmond Elliot Denies Sleeping With 2 Sisters

After being accused of sleeping with two sisters in a news report that went viral in 2013, Nollywood actor, Desmond Elliot kept silent on the matter until recently, when he reacted to the issue. He stated in an interview that nothing of such happened, stating that the girls in question were just wards under his care.