TODAY’S EVENTS

8.30am Royal College of Midwives conference continues in Manchester. Helen Pankhurst, the greatgranddaughter of suffragette Emmeline, is among the speakers.

11am Hospitality workers from some branches of McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and Wetherspoons stage 24-hour strike to demand a £10 minimum wage and union recognition.

6pm Premiere of Chris Green’s black comedy film Strangeways Here We Come, starring Michelle Keegan, at Manchester Printworks.

6pm Celebrity launch of the Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds Museum, showing preserved human bodies, at the London Pavilion.