Friend of the North? Research shows growing gap in funding despite Powerhouse promise
Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech reaffirmed the government’s commitment to creating a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ with Manchester at its centre.
Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech reaffirmed the government’s commitment to creating a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ with Manchester at its centre.
Thanks to the ‘courage and bravery’ of a woman who was subjected to a series of ‘harrowing and deeply distressing’ attacks in Salford, an attempted rapist has been jailed.
A sexual assault on a 35-year-old woman at the weekend inside the Brewdog pub on Peter Street has prompted a city-wide hunt for a suspect.
At Manchester’s Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative, cheerful and speedy services are par for the course, whether you’re competing in an event or a part-time pootler.
A talented young entrepreneur from Oldham has earned the chance to pitch his baking business to star of Dragons’ Den Peter Jones CBE.
A masked gang who raided a post office in Wigan armed with crowbars and a knife are being tracked down by police.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a 17-year-old boy was robbed at knifepoint in Eccles.
Oldham Council has helped to take down a Russian crime gang who are believed to have been selling fake CDs, documentation and computers.
Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham has come out all guns blazing in his Mirror column, claiming that the Conservative Party have ‘got away with murder’ during their time in power.
Emma Timmis and Emily Pitts already four days into a trek with a difference – skating the 120 miles from Overdinkel on the eastern border with Germany to Ijmuiden on the west coast of the country.
GMP are appealing for the public’s help to trace a wanted man and woman from Rochdale.
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