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Online lighting retailer Lightbulbs Direct claims that almost a third of all Mancunians – 30% according to their independent survey – can’t change a lightbulb.

Anderson, who made his England debut at Wembley against Czechoslovakia in 1978, is one of the People’s History Museum’s 100 Radical Heroes and will return to the museum on October 15 for the event to celebrate Black History Month.

A video of Greater Manchester Police ‘stealing’ and throwing away homeless protesters’ tents in St Ann’s Square has gone viral on social media but their solicitor says ‘nothing short of a death’ will get the council to care.

Eight years on from her daughter’s brutal murder for being a Goth, Sophie Lancaster’s mum continues the fight to get crimes against sub-cultures legally recognised as hate crimes.

A young woman has tragically died from serious head injuries after a head on collision between two cars in Wigan yesterday.

Two galaxies near the Milky Way are colliding, producing a colourful firework display discovered by experts at the University of Manchester and the University of Hong Kong.

The closure of Kids Company following the withdrawal of a £3million government bailout has shone a spotlight on young people’s charities like never before.

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has slammed the government’s immigration policy, saying they must ‘get their act together’, as they have put his constituency ‘on the frontline’ of the migration crisis.

A man, who posted sexually explicit photos of a woman on Facebook without her consent, has been jailed in the first sentencing in Greater Manchester under new revenge porn legislation.

Manchester poet Mike Garry and music composer Joe Duddell, of Elbow and New Order fame, have teamed up to create St Anthony: And Ode to Anthony H Wilson, which is being released today.

The ‘beautiful and unusual’ Tigon – a tiger, lion cross – that people flocked to the city to see in the 1940s is going on display at the Manchester Museum after 65 years in storage.