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Hundreds of anti-austerity protesters gathered to demonstrate their anger towards the government’s homelessness funding cuts in Manchester yesterday.

A Wigan carer who stole more than £5000 from an elderly couple suffering from mental and physical health difficulties has today been jailed for a year.

A giant toilet roll is coming to Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium – and it’s all in the name of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month as it aims to ‘Lift the Lid’ on the fatal disease.

An early morning series of arrests at Manchester Airport has seen four people taken in for terrorism offences – only two days after the arrest of a Rochdale councillor’s son.

An environmental charity is inviting people to take a walk on Trafford’s wild side as part of a new initiative to encourage people to enjoy the benefits of walking.

More than 250 firefighters from across the UK have signed an open letter to voters ahead of May’s general election to draw attention to the challenges and extreme pressure they have faced due to the coalition government’s cuts to the public sector.

Mourners in Wigan are coming together to help raise money in the memory of a 13-year-old rugby prodigy who tragically downed in a quarry.

A terrified 61-year-old shopworker was held at gunpoint while an armed robber stole cash and cigarettes from a store in Rochdale in the early hours of Monday morning.

With Game of Thrones making a comeback last night, workers at the Dogs Trust are worried that the number of ‘wolf lookalike’ abandoned or given up will increase.

Officers in Wigan are appealing to help find three men who a young couple’s home and struck their neighbour on the head with a hammer when he tried to come to their aid.

A team at the university has used cutting-edge computer analysis to track the virus in the recent outbreak and have been surprised by some of the results.