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A new bookstore, Chapter One Books, is aiming to inspire future generations of readers when it opens in Manchester’s Northern Quarter next month.

Is there such a thing as a rational suicide? This is the controversial question to be addressed during a debate at Manchester Museum as part of SICK! Festival.

Dogs Trust are offering free microchipping for dogs on Sunday 22 March at their centre in Denton between 11am and 3pm.

The life-saving vaccine is currently available privately, but Manchester meningitis ambassador Christine Etheridge, whose son Ben contracted the disease in 2004 when he was just three, believes it should be provided by the NHS.

Hospices like St Ann’s are in need of funding from the £6billion NHS budget devolved to the city, a Manchester MP has told Prime Minister David Cameron.

The incident, which took place at about 11:40pm on Thursday March 12, saw two thugs jump over the counter in McDonald’s on Bury New Road in Higher Broughton.

TV weatherman Fred Talbot has received a five year prison sentence after being found guilty of two counts of indecent assault.

Greater Manchester Police have apologised to more than 40 vulnerable girls across Rochdale and Heywood after failing to realise the extent of child sexual exploitation in the area.

The winner of the Birth Rites Bi-Annual Award will receive a residency at the Women’s Art Library in London, and the winning piece will be included in The Birth Rites Collection.

A 64-year-old drugs smuggler, who risked his life swallowing 300g of cocaine, is handed a four-year jail sentence after being detained at Manchester Airport.

Agender promotes a ‘genderless’ approach to clothing, one which explores the free play of gender performance and ‘blurs’ the male-female dichotomy.