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South Manchester mums are choosing to give birth via C-section more than anywhere else in the North West, according to new statistics.

A million more British children from working families are living in poverty than in 2010, a study from the Trades Union Congress revealed last month.

The number of slips, trips or falls recorded at Manchester Piccadilly station have declined for the third year in a row.

The totally free mass ride takes place in over 70 cities around the planet, and was set up to highlight cyclists vulnerability as well as promoting body positivity.

A major drugs warning has been issued just days before thousands of revellers arrive in Manchester to attend Parklife.

Manchester Palestine Action (MPA) have told MM they witnessed a ‘sea of change on the streets’ in the last two years as people are gradually ‘waking up’ to the plight of Palestinians.

‘Front of house’ drug safety testing will not take place at Parklife this weekend despite the festival’s organisers working closely with the Manchester-based who introduced the service elsewhere two years ago.

We’ve got the latest on the Northern rail chaos, news on a revamp of Stockport town centre in preparation for a Metrolink bid and an exclusive interview with comic Doug Stanhope.

The People’s History Museum’s new exhibition, Represent! Voices 100 Years On, launched last week as activists gathered on stage to recreate an infamous photo taken of suffragettes gathering before the Black Friday protest in 1910.

The armed robbers shot at police before fleeing the scene, in the Chilean capital Santiago, in a stolen Porsche Cayenne, which was later recovered.

Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Canada and Mexico is ‘highly political if not populist,’ according to University of Salford academic Faisal Sheikh.