Minister for Life Sciences George Freeman has suggested that people should be forced to pay extra for their unhealthy snacks and sugary drinks in order to tackle obesity. MM takes to the streets to find out Manchester’s opinion of a potential sugar tax.

Families from across the city will be welcomed to congregate at Manchester Cathedral as part of a set of remembrances services for people who have had to mourn the loss of a baby during pregnancy, at birth or in infancy.

An Openshaw nursery has been dealt a double blow after being deemed ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted AND in need of ‘major improvement’ by the Food Standards Agency.

Alexandra Nursery School for under 3s in Daubhill were branded with a ‘major improvement necessary’ stamp by the Food Standards Agency following their visit earlier this year.

Is your child moody or aggressive? Are they staying out late drinking and taking goodness knows what else? Have they been skipping school or letting their grades slip? Are they a victim of child sexual exploitation?

The struggle to get kids to eat their food is a universal problem that parents everywhere from Manchester to Montreal are able to agree on.

Make A Wish UK, which grants wishes for poorly kids across the country, is launching a new fundraising scheme called Wear What You Wish and is urging everyone to dress up as what they wanted to be when they were younger.

The number of Manchester children in council-arranged foster care due to abuse and neglect is at its highest level in five years, MM can reveal.

LGBT parents in Manchester were behind nearly a quarter of the city’s adoption placements last year, according to the agency After Adoption.

In the biggest fashion spat of last week, Dolce & Gabbana and Sir Elton John have come to blows over the pair’s labelling of children born through IVF as ‘synthetic’.

Schools are being urged to combat high levels of physical and mental illness in young people and teachers by nominating themselves for a new national health and wellbeing initiative.