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.

The Salford Archer: A Medieval Tale is a lottery funded project telling the story of what life was like in Salford during medieval England.

Power: From Muscle to Machine is the newest exhibit at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry giving people the chance to learn about the city’s Industrial Revolution.

Prolonged time on tablets could negatively effect children’s development

A groundbreaking Channel 4 documentary 15,000 Kids And Counting is heading to Manchester to focus on a family’s tearful goodbye to their foster children.

Children’s charity Retrak will be hosting an event at Manchester’s Might and Day Cafe to host funds for African children

After North West police claim to be clamping down on vicious dogs, animal welfare groups are calling for more to be done to protect the animals from negligent owners.

Former television presenter Timmy Mallett swaps his mallet for a paintbrush for summer show.

Some of the common myths to do with Down syndrome are busted.

Are today’s children over-indulged in the false but comforting representation of reality provided within fairy tales?

Owen Jones, a columnist for the Independent,