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With the ensuing Coronavirus Crisis, many families in the North West have required the assistance of Food Banks in order to ensure they have been able to eat.

The coronavirus outbreak means most of us will be housebound for the foreseeable future, which may leave us feeling anxious, frustrated, lonely and most notably, bored.

JD has been urged by retail worker union Usdaw to close their Rochdale warehouse, in order to protect their staff from the spread of COVID-19.

Manchester’s scientists and clinicians have formed a rapid response research group to find ways to save lives nationally and globally from coronavirus.

If you’re living under a rock, or perhaps like Jared Leto you were on a silent retreat, you may have missed that the world is in a pandemic.

Labour is in dire need of new fresh leadership after Jeremy Corbyn led the party to their worst result since 1935 back in December. The new leader will be confirmed on Saturday as either Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy or Rebecca Long-Bailey, but can any of them really become the next Clement Attlee?

A second Northern council has voiced concerns over the quality of food parcels received by the government after Newcastle joined Rochdale in criticising the nutrition levels of the deliveries.

Manchester’s Central Convention Complex (G-MEX) will be transformed into a ‘Nightingale’ field hospital to help treat coronavirus sufferers.

A row has broken out between the government and Rochdale Borough Council after the Greater Manchester authority criticised the quality of government food parcels.

A Manchester man’s COVID-19 Facebook group is spreading its wings worldwide in a bid to help his community.

In the eyes of many, the coronavirus lockdown will be characterised by a series of First World problems. MM spoke to those living off an unstable salary, which could mean unemployment, eviction and homelessness, while for those facing violence from their partner, it could mean life or death. Here Emma Morgan speak to women’s charities and campaigns across Manchester, to learn more about the potentially disastrous consequences of lockdown for the North West’s most exposed and unprotected women.