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In a blog for the leftist website Left Futures, Michael Meacher drew parallels between attitudes to austerity in Britain and in Greece, where the radical-left political party Syriza stormed into power this week with 36% vote share.

A former St John Ambulance youth volunteer, who was honoured by Princess Anne for her dedication to charity work, was found hanged after she complained of being intimidated by noisy neighbours.

Older heroin users are 27 times more likely to be murdered than someone in the general public, according to a University of Manchester study

Tameside General has been exposed as having had a higher death rate than the national average during the year spent in special measures.

Manchester icons are being recognised as some of Britain’s 500 most influential people with the likes of MP Simon Danczuk, architect Lord Norman Foster and cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins, among others, making the list.

Armed officers were called to Crescent Drive in Little Hulton to reports of a firearms discharge around 9.10pm on January 26.

A serious crash between a pedestrian and a truck has taken place on Portland Street in the middle of Manchester’s city centre rush hour.

Anti-fracking protesters including iconic Mancunian DJ Dave Haslam are angry and dissatisfied by the government’s ‘destructive’ partial ban on fracking.

A family doctor who performed an exorcism on a seriously ill woman, promising her that God could ‘heal’ her without medication was struck off at a Manchester tribunal today, after being branded a risk to all patients.

Ian Brown has told a court how TV weatherman Fred Talbot set masturbation practice as homework to pupils during his teaching years at Altrincham Grammar school.

Rochdale Police are urging the public to stay safe at night after two women were assaulted in the Kingsway area over the past four days.