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Manchester Metropolitan University is set to be the UK’s first higher education institution to offer a degree in Urdu.

Kids from six Salford primary schools are combining their efforts to perform an opera about the history of the UK’s first canal and the key role the city’s waterways have played in the growth and industrialisation of the country.

New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre reveal obesity hospital admissions were higher in the North West than anywhere else in the country last year.

Certain religions are encouraging child abuse in the belief it will ‘get the devil out of them’, according to a support worker working alongside Manchester academics to establish the link.

Domenico Dolce caused widespread offence in an interview when he branded IVF babies as ‘synthetic children’ and blasted ‘there are things that should not be changed.’

Mancunians witnessing the once-in-a-decade solar eclipse that will occur this Friday should take extra care to avoid eye damage, according to a university expert.

They say you should never mix business with pleasure… but meet award-winning sex and relationship coach Rachael McCoy, who gets ‘paid to masturbate’.

A new bookstore, Chapter One Books, is aiming to inspire future generations of readers when it opens in Manchester’s Northern Quarter next month.

The winner of the Birth Rites Bi-Annual Award will receive a residency at the Women’s Art Library in London, and the winning piece will be included in The Birth Rites Collection.

For one go-getting Salford University graduate it is all early nights and a hectic training schedule at the moment as he plans to take on two marathons and one mega marathon in just three months to raise £35,000 for children in Malawi.

Manchester’s famous gay village is not in decline despite being noticeably quieter, according to former BBC Apprentice star Sanjay Sood-Smith.