For 10 years, the Greater Manchester Walking Festival has quietly transformed from a calendar fixture to a grassroots movement –

As part of national Volunteering Week, gardeners at St Ann’s Hospice have revealed how tending to the shrubs and buds at the Heald Green site helped them cope with the loss of their loved ones.

A new tumblr has got the whole world seeing red, re-imaging all your favourite celebrities with ginger hair, eyebrows and even freckles so here at MM we decided to give some of Manchester’s parliamentary candidates our own (incredibly amateur) makeover.

Supermarket chain Morrisons are taking their price war online by bringing home delivery to Manchester three months earlier than planned.

More victims have come forward claiming ex-Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith sexually abused them.

The woman, known only as girl B, wept as she told a jury how paedophile ‘predator’ Hall, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, subjected her to years of abuse

Hall, 84, is said to have raped and indecently assaulted two young girls on various dates more than 35 years ago

Attack reminiscent Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear in a heavyweight boxing contest in 1997.

Jason Smith, 28, sent text messages threatening to rape and kill his victims and their families

Mayweather will face MBA champion Marcos Maidana on May 3

St Raphael is the patron saint of love and lovers