The mental health problems for call centre employees is becoming a ‘bigger and bigger issue’, a senior Manchester union representative has warned.

Co-founders Neil Jeram-Croft, 34, and Al Bailey, 36, say they were thrilled with the success of the festival and have already confirmed the event will be back next year.

After scoring an astonishing 35 goals in 15 games in the Women’s Premier League last season for Blackburn, England Under-17 international Georgia Stanway was courted by Manchester City resulting in a dream move.

The American writer behind the world’s most well-known family, The Simpsons, has been named the first official patron of the Salford International Media Festival.

Bury-born Scott Quigg will be defending his WBA World Super Bantamweight title against former IBF world champion Kiko Martinez, whilst fellow Mancunian Anthony Crolla meets Darleys Perez for a shot at his WBA World Lightweight belt on Saturday.

The final night of the Manchester International Film Festival saw the great and good receive much-deserved awards for their endeavours. But because we know it’d be tough to find the time to watch them all we’ve put together a list of our favourites.

The owner of an Indian takeaway found himself in a hot spot after serving up a ‘lamb’ Balti that was revealed to be 100% beef by Food Standards Agency lad tests.

Chris Robshaw will lead Stuart Lancaster’s England out at Twickenham on Friday September 18 to start arguably the biggest tournament of his career after getting to grips with the great and the good of the sport’s grassroots heroes at the first ever National Rugby Awards.

Figures in a recent Sunday Times report revealed that, for a professorship in science, women get paid an average of £5,000 less than men – the figure rising to as much as £21,000 in some institutions.

In the wake of the announcement of £59million cuts to the city’s budget this year, MM submitted a Freedom of Information request to the council to discover their other sources of income.

One Manchester retail worker tonight described his fear after seeing ‘change falling from the sky’ and realising the source was a drunken man threatening to jump.