Bring Back Our Girls campaign: Piccadilly Gardens protesters to host vigil for abducted Nigerian girls
Around 230 young Nigerian girls seized by Islamist militant group Boko Haram last month
Britain’s lost women: Cosmopolitan launch memorial day campaign for ‘honour killing’ victims
Manchester is in the top-five worst-affected areas for honour crimes in the UK – and Cosmopolitan are tackling the issue with a proposed day of memory for victims.
Young man, there’s a place you can go: Manchester’s Village People Weekend launch HIV charity drive
The Canal Street festival, the Village People Weekend, will see the great and the good from Manchester’s most celebrated LGBT postcode turn out to have some bank holiday fun and raise some money for HIV charities.
United cause: Manchester pop group reaching for the Electric Stars with charity George Best single
Band’s charity cover of Don Fardon’s George Best-inspired 70s hit Belfast Boy will be backed by the band’s own ode to the football hero Georgie (The Brightest Star)
Tameside trio take inspiration from Ewan McGregor’s Long Way Round to tackle gruelling global charity bike challenge
Russell Selby, Mark Phillips and Jake Mellor are eight months into the charity fundraiser challenge
Fit and healthy Hale boy, 17, ‘loved by all’ dies from rare undiagnosed heart condition that usually affects old men
A-level student Harry Dubois collapsed while watching TV at home and died earlier this month
Mottram mum of tragic tot who died of rare cancer sets herself £1m charity target so life of son ‘won’t be in vain’
A Mottram charity set up in memory of a tragic Manchester tot are aiming to raise £1million in his 23 months’ lifetime – and have been handed a boost from holiday firm to help them on their way.
#ThumbsUpForStephen! Jason Manford launches selfie campaign to double cancer teen’s £1m charity cash
Stephen Sutton’s fundraising page smashed the £1m target this morning
Two thousand bicycles in… Sale: Greater Manchester biking festival raises cash for disabled cyclists
Festival goers attended the Sale Bicycle Festival with all proceeds going to the charity Simply Cycling, who modify bikes for disabled people.
Who will be crowned Miss Manchester? Beauty queens to reign at Palace Hotel for contest of tears and tiaras
The city’s most glamorous women will battle it out to be crowned Miss Manchester at the Palace Hotel next Thursday
You must be yolking… chickens on the roof? The Printworks unveil addition to Manchester menagerie
Bez’s bees residing on top of Manchester’s Printworks now have some company – as a clutch of chickens are the latest edition to the roof-top menagerie.