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A Manchester entrepreneur will be hoping his latest idea doesn’t sink as he looks to raise funds for a new form of taxi, which will launch onto the city’s canals.

South Manchester MP John Leech believes plans for a high-speed rail network in the North West will be ‘good news’ for the city’s economy – and is urging the government to implement the report alongside the current HS2.

A solicitor who runs his own practice in Cheadle appeared in court today charged with stealing more than £600,000 from clients.

Forgiving Loretta Smith, 75, felt so sorry for 24-year-old Kevin Derbyshire after he gave her a sob story from jail, she wrote back accepting his apology and enclosing a £20 postal order

TechNorth, which falls under the Lib Dem’s Northern Futures initiative, aims to ‘co-ordinate the existing digital technology expertise of Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Newcastle to create an internationally renowned virtual agency’

Nine out of ten areas across the region saw a decline in unemployment between June 2012/13 and June 2013/14, but the borough of Rochdale recorded an increase of 0.5%, according to the report

A former Labour councillor has branded the Stockport branch of the party ‘like a North Korean dictatorship’ amid claims of a culture of bullying.

Rochdale have put putting their ambitions together with the 60-year-old North West Amateur Brass Band Association.

Manchester Airport are giving some lucky ghosts and ghouls a treat this Halloween, by offering a pair of flights to Orlando in a social media giveaway.

The inquest into the death of Wigan teen Jade Lomas-Anderson reached its conclusion today finding the tragedy was the result of multiple injuries from attack by more than one dog

A family-run drugs ‘empire’ orchestrated from within a prison cell has been busted by Greater Manchester Police.