LABOUR politician Roy Hattersley will be special guest at the opening of a new exhibition at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery.

Tabloid Culture will show the same obsession with the subjects of sex, politics, royalty and crime in prints from 1500 to 1850 as we see in today's tabloids.

Mr Hattersley will open the show at the private view for invited guests on April 10.

The exhibition is a collaboration between National Touring Exhibitions and the British Museum where all of the prints are held. It will be on show from April 11 to June 24.