Shamed ex-Wigan councillor jailed for eight months over fake childcare expenses
A former Wigan Councillor has been imprisoned for eight months for making fraudulent childcare claims.
Karen Danczuk’s signed selfie eBay stunt racks up more than £1,000 in ONE WEEK
Rochdale councillor Karen Danczuk, dubbed ‘the sexiest woman in politics’, has made more than £1,000 selling signed selfies of herself on eBay.
Labour’s Emily Thornberry resignation over ‘snobby’ tweet was big ‘overreaction’
A Stockport councillor has leapt to the defence of Labour MP Emily Thornberry, saying her forced resignation over an ‘ill-judged’ tweet was an ‘overreaction’.
Santa Claus is coming to town as Manchester welcomes UK’s biggest Christmas Market
Santa Claus is coming early to Manchester as the award-winning Christmas Markets open for their sixteenth year on November 14.
Wigan councillor saves pensioner’s life… just weeks after first aid training
A quick-thinking councillor saved the life of an elderly man who collapsed in front of him, just weeks after undergoing first aid training.
Manchester councillor accused of lying in apology to LGBT group over offensive Myra Hindley tweet
Manchester councillor Kevin Peel has been accused of lying in his apology to Queerchester – after ‘mistaking’ a graffiti style art piece of drag queen Foo Foo Lammar for notorious child killer Myra Hindley.
Sex-mad Wigan cllr told to ‘quit!’ as motion calls for resignation over kinky chat line bills and revolting texts
Yesterday evening, all but three members of Wigan council voted in favour of Labour councillor Terence Halliwell’s motion at a full council meeting
Sex-mad Wigan cllr slapped with female chat ban after kinky hot-line binge and vile texts about ‘f*nnies’
Councillor Robert Bleakley escaped the sack for texts that claimed women were for ‘cleaning and washing material’ and that he hoped jailed Vicky Pryce ‘liked her fanny played with in the showers’.
Emergency Ancoats meeting: Crisis assembly after gang rampage leaves residents ‘feeling safer’
An emergency public meeting called in response to the gang rampage that rocked the Ancoats area has left residents ‘feeling safer’, claims a councillor.
Free to tweet on the beat: GMP social media misconduct was ‘blown out of proportion’, claims Manchester councillor
A Manchester councillor has dismissed claims that Greater Manchester Police are the worst in the country for breaching social media guidelines – by claiming the figures are being ‘blown out of proportion’.
Green light for Manchester’s second female statue as councillor pledges to raise funds by cycling length of UK
Plans to install a statue of an iconic female figure in Manchester city centre have been passed as a Didsbury councillor pledged to get on his bike to raise £50,000 to build it.