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A Manchester magistrate’s campaign against mandatory court charges for offenders has succeeded after the Justice Secretary announced that they will be scrapped.

Over 370 children in care have received tickets paid for by the public to see the Snow Queen at a Manchester arts venue this Christmas thanks to a Just Giving campaign.

The North West is to be delivered a ‘world-class’ rail service, after the Government franchised northern rail commitments to Arriva Rail North and First TransPennine Express.

The Government must allow migrants in the infamous ‘Jungle’ Calais camp to enter the UK, a Manchester-based Human Rights organisation has said.

Cotton spinning is set to return to its Greater Manchester home with the opening of a high-tech mill in Dukinfield.

Knowing a thing or two about successful online trading, Amazon have recently submitted a planning application to Manchester City Council, to build a site close to the M56 motorway.

Manchester is famous the world over for being the leader in many areas, from pioneering musical talent to the industrial might of the Victorian age.

Parents, teachers and unions are in despair as one of Manchester’s largest and most successful schools faces imminent academisation ‘out of fear’, claims the National Union of Teachers.

It sounds an odd way to raise money, but a children’s cancer charity has just launched a Shoecember campaign and wants people to wear two different shoes, then do a selfie to raise funds.

Show Racism the Red Card is staging a special screening of a film about immigration at Manchester’s National Football Museum next week.

Labour’s victory in the Oldham West and Royton by-election is down to a strong local candidate and ‘says nothing about Jeremy Corbyn’, according to a leading academic.