BBC Local Live: Greater Manchester

Looks like another cold night with a widespread frost, particularly in rural areas. Clear skies will become cloudier later in the night, with perhaps a little light rain by dawn.

Cloudy on Thursday with patchy rain slowly spreading in from the north-west.

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Graduates of Manchester are running Mozambique, Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent, and Iraq - which is the same number of world leaders who attended the UK's Sandhurst military academy, apparently.

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As the US prepares to elect a new president, BBC News is letting you find out how you measure up to the most powerful people on Earth?  

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BBC Sport has met up with Craig Robinson to find out what it takes to be an FA Cup hero.

Robinson scored the crucial goal in Warrington Town's 1-0 FA Cup first-round win over Exeter City, who were 100 league positions above the non-league club.

An industrial-size firework that is so powerful it can only be detonated by an electric current has been handed in to Greater Manchester Fire Service - by a man who had been keeping it under his bed. 

The owner of the 17kg "Brocade Crown with Blue Stars" had won it in a competition, although it should only have been sold to professional display operators. 

• An industrial size firework - so powerful it can only be detonated by an electric current - has been handed in to Greater Manchester Fire Service by a man who was keeping it under his bed
• A bomb squad is called out to Oldham Academy North, Rochdale 6th Form and Stretford Grammar School - among others - to carry out controlled explosions on a potentially dangerous substance
• A report from the Leonard Cheshire charity says the number of elderly and disabled people in Greater Manchester who get help with basic social care has dropped by 17% over the last five years  

Greater Manchester Police has tweeted a poem written by a girl who was sexually exploited, as part of a campaign against child sexual exploitation called It's Not Okay.

Warrington Wolves have confirmed that former Widnes and Salford half-back Karl Fitzpatrick will replace Roger Draper as chief executive at The Halliwell Jones Stadium.

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has donated £20,000 to help the Great Britain's men's and women's deaf football teams secure their place at next year's Deaflympics.  

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The teams needed to raise the money by the end of the month as deposits for next July's competition in Turkey, which is the biggest multi-sport event for deaf athletes.

However, they still need to raise a further £105,000 to cover the cost of travelling to the event and training camps.

"You don't know how much this means to me and the team," tweeted GB women's captain Claire Stancliffe, who has been helping to lead the fundraising effort.

Oldham Sixth Form College has retained its good rating after a two-day inspection by Ofsted.  

Almost a year after the Boxing Day floods, people in parts of Bury are still not back in their homes and St Mary's in Radcliffe continues to use dehumidifiers to try and dry out. 

The government has been told the money it is spending on preventing floods is unlikely to provide protection in the future.  

Manchester City's outstanding Champions League victory over Barcelona bore all the hallmarks of a seminal moment in the development of this club of unlimited ambition.

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Barca were finally overcome at the sixth time of asking on a scintillating night at Etihad Stadium, the 3-1 victory a fair reflection of the manner in which City wrested superiority from the side that beat them 4-0 in the Nou Camp a fortnight ago.

And for City manager Pep Guardiola, this was much more than a result that redressed the balance in Champions League Group C.

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• A bomb squad is called out to Oldham Academy North, Rochdale 6th Form and Stretford Grammar School - among others - to carry out controlled explosions on a potentially dangerous substance

• An industrial size firework -so powerful it can only be detonated by an electric current- has been handed in to Greater Manchester Fire Service by a man who was keeping it under his bed

• A man is arrested on suspicion of murder - after a 42-year-old man was found dead in Manchester 

 A BBC Radio Manchester investigation has found there are nearly 35,000 homes lying empty in the region, with nearly half considered "long-term empty".

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A public consultation was launched on Monday into plans to build 225,000 new homes across Greater Manchester, including on green belt sites.

The 10 authorities in Greater Manchester said there were about 16,000 long-term empty homes, which may have been inherited, in areas of deprivation, or may have been a buy-to-let gone wrong.

Cheshire Police has seized a car which had been stopped on the M56 near Warrington. 

Thirty homes and businesses are without water after a major pipe burst in Chadderton, Oldham. 

A man who was "going to sleep at night with 17kg of explosives under his bed" has left firefighters in Salford "astonished". 

The man, who lives in Broughton, told firefighters he had been storing the 100-shot Brocade Crown with Blue Stars under his bed after winning it in a competition. 

A Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said the "industrial-sized" firework is usually sold to professional display operators and was "so powerful" it can only be safely detonated with an electric current.   

It is certainly a fresh and crisp autumnal day in Salford. A lovely day for a walk across Greater Manchester. 

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Another cold afternoon, but mostly bright and sunny, although the sunshine perhaps turning a little hazy later on.  

The father of a man who suffered life-changing injuries when he was knocked down in Taiwan faces a desperate struggle to find the funds to fly his son home.