The eyesore on millionaire row

Welcome to Unmissable, our weekly digest of stories we think you might have missed. With its bustling high street, premium properties and top-notch schools it is perhaps no surprise that Altrincham has been recognised in The Sunday Times annual Best Places to Live guide. Elsewhere in the borough, amid million pound properties, tucked back from Charcoal Road is Brackendene, a huge sprawling building in disrepair. Brackendene is an eyesore and a problem no one seems to be able to solve, and that's because it's owned by the Iranian government. Welcome to Unmissable, our weekly digest of stories we think you might have missed. Beside grand multi-million pound houses, protected behind towering gated driveways sits Brackendene. A crumbling building with a secretive history that has fallen into disrepair. Looking out at the scenic fields, the stunning houses in the area are worth as much as £10m. The huge derelict mansion surrounded by high fences was previously host to diplomatic meetings, lavish parties and banquets for Iran. Decades later it lies largely abandoned, and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. Love him or loathe him, Jack Whitehall does seem to be everywhere at the moment. When the BRITs came to Manchester, he was the host - and one joke in particular really seemed to irritate people. It was a joke about Moss Side, and it played on a tired old trope about that area. Beth Abbit went out to Moss Side to talk to the people that live and work there - and she found a lot of love. The life of a local democracy reporter in Oldham is rarely without incident as Charlotte Hall has found out down the years. It was an incident of a different type that afflicted her recently though when a normal run out took a turn for the dramatic after her car burst into flames. Suffice to say she'll be taking the bus for a while. Neal Keeling has a knowledge of Greater Manchester's unsolved cases unlike any other journalist. His latest instalment reprises the horrific case of Shane Eckersley, who was fatally attacked by seven hooded men outside a Salford restaurant. A veil of silence around the case has ensured his killers have never been found. It's a rare instance where our court reporter Andrew Bardsley strays into comment writing. This past weekend was an exception. Under new government plans we could see the end of trial by jury in cases where the defendant would likely receive a sentence of less than three years. Instead their fate would be decided by a judge-only court.