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The death of a 29-year-old man who was found dead in Manchester city centre isn’t being treated as suspicious – Police have confirmed.

A man from Bolton accidentally poisoned himself to death after taking a powerful morphine-based painkiller to sooth back ache which had been prescribed to a dying man for ‘end of life’ care, an inquest heard.

Just 0.1% of fly-tippers were brought to justice in Manchester over the last year – despite £1.5million being spent clearing up the mess.

North England’s population in relation the rest of the country’s hits a 200 year low, statistics released by the Office for National Statistics reveal

The region has one of the highest incidences of reported anti-social behaviour in the country, and at least one in every ten calls to Greater Manchester Police relating to anti-social behaviour references the consumption and effect of alcohol.

South Manchester MP John Leech is joining the rebellion to get the government ‘beer-tie’ scheme scrapped in a bid to get local pub landlords off the breadline

Steven Woolfe, the migration and financial affairs spokesman for Nigel Farage’s party, said that current leaders were scared of change in the region and needed to rethink their relationship with Manchester.

An Islam spokeswoman from Manchester has blamed the media and far-right political parties for the upward trend in hate crime against Muslims.

Anti-bailiff campaigners branded the annual Debt Collection Awards last night in Manchester as a sick event that ‘celebrated other people’s misery’.

A Stockport councillor has leapt to the defence of Labour MP Emily Thornberry, saying her forced resignation over an ‘ill-judged’ tweet was an ‘overreaction’.

A commuter who left a fellow passenger on crutches to sit on the floor of a Metrolink tram so that he didn’t have to move his luggage has been slammed as ‘utterly disgraceful’.