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A massive £99million in funding is to be provided to local firms across Cheshire and Warrington to help create jobs and boost skills.

A record-breaking number of successful, life-changing and saving kidney transplants have been carried out by the Renal Transplant Team at Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI).

The number of people who are self-employed in Greater Manchester is up 28% since the financial crisis, with those taking on the burden labelled ‘unsung heroes’ of the economic recovery.

Everyone in Manchester who ‘gives a spit’ about blood cancer is being urged to head down to The Printworks to help those suffering from these often terminal illnesses.

A Manchester charity, dedicated to improving the lives of the city’s sex workers, has been honoured with a Charity Achievement Award from The Lloyds Bank Foundation for the hard work of their volunteers.

Manchester City Council is collecting reports on littering, fly tipping, spillages and eyesores via their homepage, alongside an interesting new website called FixMyStreet.com.

Greater Manchester midwives have been crowned the best in the country after delivering an exceptional performance in Unicef’s ‘Baby Friendly’ accreditation tests.

The brave men and women of Manchester’s emergency services will be showcasing the lifesaving, crime-stopping, community-protecting work they do at the Trafford Centre tomorrow.

A little boy has been hospitalised after he was attacked and bitten by Staffordshire Terrier/Pitbull cross in Radcliffe yesterday.

Thieves threw a wheelie bin through the shop window of Timperley Aquatics, and then a fish tank through the glass of the bird’s enclosure, before wrestling ‘Baby’ away – as evidenced by the bird’s tail feathers which were torn out in the struggle.

The 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, which killed 200,000 in 1945 as WWII came to a close, will be commemorated in a service led by The Lord Mayor of Manchester Councillor Paul Murphy OBE at Manchester Museum on Thursday.