News

A Stockport man, who hoarded heaps of electrical goods in his ‘scrap yard’ of a garden, has been slapped with a £750 fine.

Voters in the south Manchester constituency have erected ‘Cameron & Hunt’ estate agency-style boards outside their homes, calling on David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt to use their veto powers to remove the NHS from the TTIP trade deal.

Sir Richard Leese has been accused of playing a ‘political game’ by allegedly delaying the announcement of Manchester City Council’s £11million windfall to boost moral after announcing cuts.

Julie Ward MEP, whose sister is a teacher, believes that ‘knee-jerk’ government interventions in offering incentives for STEM recruits has prompted further crisis in the education system.

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.